Following the Trump directive that led Anthropic to pull its latest AI models offline and growing calls for sovereign tech that reduces reliance on the U.S., Mistral AI has been caught in a whirlwind of attention. But the French AI darling is often misunderstood, and the fact that it develops large language models (LLMs) has…
Traditional robot programming is hard to scale. It requires orchestrating multimodal perception, physical contact dynamics, diverse configurations, and execution failures by hand. Code-as-policy systems let language models compose these into executable robot programs. That makes robot behavior inspectable, editable, and debuggable. But existing robotic coding agents run in naive execution environments. They receive only coarse,…
Today, Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5. It is a code agent model built for Lean 4. The release targets automated theorem proving and proof engineering. Weights are open under Apache 2.0. A free API endpoint, leanstral-1-5, is now live. Leanstral 1.5 updates the earlier Leanstral-2603 model. It belongs to the Mistral Small 4 family. What…
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world…
def render_pdf(d, path): “””Draw a realistic one-page invoice: header, meta, bill/ship, line items, totals, payment.””” from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import LETTER from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet, ParagraphStyle from reportlab.lib.units import inch from reportlab.lib import colors from reportlab.platypus import (SimpleDocTemplate, Paragraph, Spacer, Table, TableStyle) c = compute(d) sym = d[“currency_symbol”] def money(x): return f”{sym}{x:,.2f}” ss = getSampleStyleSheet() H1 =…
The browser wars have entered a new phase this year: the fight isn’t just over search results anymore, it’s over which company’s AI gets to act on your behalf inside the browser itself. Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari still dominate the market overall, with Chrome’s edge coming largely from how aggressively it has woven generative…
My biggest pet peeve with meeting apps is that each one has a different shortcut for muting your mic or turning off your webcam. It’s hard to remember which keys do what when you’re mid-meeting and trying to make a point or ask a question. I always wanted a physical, universal button for mute and…
Although I grew up shifting my dad’s Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck from the passenger seat, I’m not exactly Chevy’s target market. I favor hatchbacks over cargo beds. But after tooling around Detroit for a day in the Silverado EV, I realized that Chevy might make a truck guy out of me yet. The Silverado EV…
Negotiations between Google DeepMind and its London-based employees over the possibility of unionization stumbled this week, after initial talks left union representatives feeling they had wasted their time, WIRED has learned. In May, DeepMind employees asked Google to recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives. The company later denied that…
Tesla delivered more than 480,000 vehicles in the second quarter of this year, an increase of more than 120,000 from the first quarter, in a sign that the company is still able to attract new buyers for its EVs despite a downturn in the U.S. market. The company said Thursday that it built 451,758 in…
