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1 November 2026
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Apple's AI reaches China, with Alibaba inside.
Apple Intelligence arrives there in December. Part of it will be running a model Apple did not build, and the Siri everyone was waiting for is not in the box.
Business · by Rafaela Oduya · 5 MIN READ
Sam Altman wants the memory in your laptop.
He told a podcast it is “quite terrible” that the world's limited supply of DRAM sits in personal computers. Two days later he was in Yongin, in front of fifty Samsung executives.
Silicon · by Teodor Bergström · 5 MIN READ
Mistral gave away a model the size of a trillion.
The French company published the weights for Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk. Anyone can download it. That is not the same thing as open source, and the gap is where the interesting part lives.
Models · by Nalini Achterberg · 6 MIN READ