Mistral raises €3 billion at a post-money valuation above €21 billion
Samsung Electronics led the round, with Advent, BlackRock funds and Luxembourg new on the register, and Mistral's published API prices did not move with it.
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Paper Finds Profession-Specific Prompts Add Cost Without Accuracy Gains on Gemini
A new paper tested Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash against 503 profession-specific system prompts and found no consistent accuracy gain despite much higher token use.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is on a promotional price that doubles on 1 January 2027
Google is charging a promotional $0.75 per million input tokens for Gemini 3.8 Flash until the end of 2026, after which the published price doubles.
OpenAI charges 10% more on regional endpoints for models released since March
OpenAI's regional API endpoints add 10% to the standard price of models released since March 2026, including the newly announced GPT-6 Astra.
Zhipu's half price GLM-5.3-Flash promotion ends on 9 September
Zhipu AI's discounted GLM-5.3-Flash price expires after 9 September, when its input, cached input and output rates each double to the printed list prices.
Google puts Lyria 3.5 music generation in the Gemini app at no charge
Google has added Lyria 3.5 music generation to the free Gemini app and its API, but the launch announcement gives users no published usage limit.
Paper Tests Polynomial Shortcuts For Nvidia GPU Transcendentals
A new paper tests short polynomial programs as a faster substitute for sigmoid, tanh and SiLU operations on Nvidia's Blackwell and GB200 GPUs.
Nvidia Details Local Agent Tools and RTX Spark PCs for IFA 2026
Nvidia used IFA 2026 to detail faster local inference, a network-wide AI router, and RTX Spark PCs shipping in October.
GPT-6 Astra reaches general availability in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft has put OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra into general availability in Foundry, with published token prices that double for long context and rise again in the US Data Zone.
GitHub Copilot retires Gemini, Kimi and Claude models on 2 October, and one replacement costs three times as much
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash and 3.6 Flash, Moonshot's Kimi K2.7 Code and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 go, and GitHub's reference still lists them as available.
Google's new weather model refreshes hourly and lands inside Search, Maps and the Gemini app
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 rebuilds the global forecast every hour from satellite data, and starts powering weather in Search, Maps and the Gemini app the same day.
OpenAI announces GPT-6 Astra and puts it on the Plus allowance table
OpenAI has put GPT-6 Astra on the paid ChatGPT rungs at 5 to 45 local messages on Plus, the tightest allowance of any model on its own docs pricing list.
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