NVIDIA reports that specialized versions of Nemotron 3 scored above the gold thresholds at both the 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics and the International Mathematical Olympiad. The runs were unofficial.
The FCC authorized SpaceX to deploy a 15,000-satellite constellation for direct-to-device service, while deferring some requests. SpaceX must launch half by October 2032 and the rest by October 2035.
Mistral opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a natively multimodal model with about 1 trillion total and 52 billion active parameters. The French lab says the weights will be released by the end of October.
The UK government said it accepts every recommendation from the National Commission on regulating AI in healthcare. Medicines regulator MHRA plans a consultation on how software and AI devices are classified by spring 2027.
Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740-million-parameter open model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into one shared embedding space. It is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
The llama.cpp server now supports decision models through a new endpoint. These models read an input once and return a probability for each option you give them.
The Allen Institute for AI released AstaBrief 8B, which turns a research question and retrieved literature excerpts into a cited report. It powers the Fast mode of report generation in Ai2's Asta platform.
SpaceXAI released Grok for Intune, a separate iOS app for organizations that manage devices with Microsoft Intune, with work-email sign-in and support for company app-protection policies.
Hugging Face and collaborators launched the Open TTS Leaderboard to evaluate open-source text-to-speech and voice-cloning models across languages. The authors say open models are underrepresented on arena-style rankings.
Paris-based H Company introduced Holo4, agentic models in 27B dense and 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts sizes, plus an updated Holotron4 Nano. The models work through GUIs, code, MCP and APIs.