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Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models (Mistral AI Blog)
https://mistral.ai/news/regional-inference-open-models-new-compute/

In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.
Mistral is bringing together the inference infrastructure, open models, and long-term commitments Europe needs to control its AI future, and setting a roadmap for the world.

These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vaporized rock and grounds of scorching magma oceans | Space
These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vaporized rock and grounds of scorching magma oceans | Space https://www.s…

A hacker group called Breach Boyz has been emailing local TV stations in Oklahoma with seemingly accurate PII, including the SSNs, of 30 inmates in the Rogers County jail, but authorities say there has been no breach.
https://ktul.com/news/local/mystery-deepens-ov…

Mystery deepens over data breach of inmate info
Ten days ago we reported about claims that a hacker group called Breach Boyz had gained information about inmates at the Rogers County jail, sending us an email

The probing-class demo board is (I think) finished and awaiting final design review.
Anyone else want to throw a few eyes on it before it goes out to JLC?
https://github.com/azonenberg/electronics-training/tree/master/oscillosco…

electronics-training/oscilloscope-probing/lab/boards/demo-board at master · azonenberg/electronics-training
Training materials for classes etc. Contribute to azonenberg/electronics-training development by creating an account on GitHub.

UCLA chancellor rebukes law school event featuring 9/11 ‘mastermind’ attorney
In a rare rebuke of a campus event, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk on Friday distanced the university from a law school symposium about the 9/11 terrorist attacks
that has faced criticism for including a lawyer for 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,
along with speakers whom critics accuse of sympathizing with extremism or being antisemitic.
The symposium, “25 Years After 9/11,” was spon…

UCLA Chancellor rebukes law school event over 9/11 panel
After a UCLA law school symposium on 9/11 that featured an attorney who represented 9/11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk issued a rare message distancing the university from the event.

Fred Rogers Productions launches a Mister Rogers' Neighborhood YouTube channel, curating content based on monthly themes and focusing on reach over monetization (Marah Eakin/Current)
https://current.org/2026/06/mister-rogers-neighborhood…

RE: https://flipboard.com/@handelsblatt/schlagzeilen-gll84b5az/-/a-UCH-MZtERpqNIDzsSlBA3A:a:2728930953-/0
Way to go

On Bridging Mixture Distributions
Pierre Del Moral, Ajay Jasra, Ke Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13383 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13383 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13383
arXiv:2608.13383v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this article we consider bridging between two mixture probability measures. In particular, given access to a Markov kernel between two component distributions, we provide a general mechanism to generate samples from one mixture to the other. Associated to a given reference and extended state space, we prove entropic optimality of this approach. In order to use this idea one needs to know the underlying mixtures and the Markov kernel, which is seldom available, and so we consider the case of Gaussian mixtures and Schr\"odinger Bridges. We prove a general $2-$Wasserstein continuity bound between the exact bridge and one that is approximated, based on $\epsilon-$covariance inflation, and these rely on a novel continuity analysis of perturbed Riccati maps. We apply our results in the context of bridging mixtures of Gaussians, single Gaussians and empirical estimators of the Gaussian parameters and the Monge map. For mixtures of Gaussians, when the parameters are estimated using the Expectation-Maxmization algorithm, the upper-bound on the $2-$Wasserstein distance between the true and approximated bridges is, under assumptions and with probability at least $1-10N^{-1}$, $\mathcal{O}\big(\big[\big(\tfrac{d\log N}{N}\big)^{1/2}\left\{1 \big(\tfrac{d\log N}{N}\right)^{1/2}(\epsilon^{-2} 1)\big\} \epsilon^2\big]\big) $
and for the other two cases, in expectation, $\mathcal{O}\left(d\left\{\tfrac{1 \epsilon^{-2}}{1 N} \epsilon^2\right\}\right)$, where $d,N\in\mathbb{N}$ is the dimension of the Gaussian and the number of empirical samples respectively. We also investigate our bounds numerically.
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Robostral Navigate: Mistral veröffentlicht Einzelkamera-KI für die Roboter
Mistral AI stellt Robostral Navigate vor – ein 8B-Modell, das Roboter allein per RGB-Kamera und Sprachanweisung navigiert.

Robostral Navigate: Mistral veröffentlicht Einzelkamera-KI für die Roboter
Mistral AI stellt Robostral Navigate vor – ein 8B-Modell, das Roboter allein per RGB-Kamera und Sprachanweisung navigiert.

Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/ant-international-visa-masterca…

Ant International partners with Visa, Mastercard on developing AI payments
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International are working on common standards for AI-agent payments — including ways to verify and monitor their transactions.