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Variants of WormGPT, which was shut down by one of its creators last August, have emerged in BreachForums, another popular underground forum. Cato CTRL discovered previously unreported WormGPT variants that are powered by xAI’s Grok and Mistral AI’s Mixtral.
https://www.catonetwork…

Mistral adds new features to its Le Chat chatbot, including a new "deep research" mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/mistrals-…

Mistral's Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research' mode | TechCrunch
French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google. The new update includes a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing. 

Nice new models from Mistral
https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral?utm_source=superhuman&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=thinking-machines-lan…

Voxtral | Mistral AI
Introducing frontier open source speech understanding models.

There's a mysterious 'carbon sink' in the hinterlands of the South Island... absorbing more carbon than expected... I'm following this research with interest. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564407…

Raiders running back Raheem Mostert joins NHL Tonight https://www.nhl.com/video/raiders-running-back-raheem-mostert-joins-nhl-tonight-6374488013112

'Very true,' said the Duchess: 'flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is — "Birds of a feather flock together."'
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Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
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'It's a mineral, I think,' said Alice.
'...said the Duchess...there's a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is — "The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours."'
--Lewis Carroll

Mixture of Raytraced Experts
Andrea Perin, Giacomo Lagomarsini, Claudio Gallicchio, Giuseppe Nuti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12419 https://

Mixture of Raytraced Experts
We introduce a Mixture of Raytraced Experts, a stacked Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture which can dynamically select sequences of experts, producing computational graphs of variable width and depth. Existing MoE architectures generally require a fixed amount of computation for a given sample. Our approach, in contrast, yields predictions with increasing accuracy as the computation cycles through the experts' sequence. We train our model by iteratively sampling from a set of candidate exper…

Good to see, opensource, european AI models like Magistral from Mistral.
#AI #magistral

Magistral | Mistral AI
Stands to reason.

The EU shouldn't allow Apple to take-over Mistral..
https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/apple-will-seriously-consider-buying-mistral-report/

Apple Will Seriously Consider Buying Mistral: Report | AIM
Are acquisitions the way forward for the company to resolve its AI issues?

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model family, and says its API transcription offerings are cheaper than models from OpenAI and Google (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/mistral-releases-voxtr…

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model | TechCrunch
French startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with Voxtral, its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives.