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European AI flag bearer Mistral's new open weights model is 'Le Chonk'
Oh lawd it is coming ... to Hugging Face later this month
Anthropic Claude subscription plan provides more value than OpenAI's, study says
Research firm not exactly thrilled by House of Altman's subscription changes
Denmark's ID register spills more people's details than the country has residents
Abuse of private firm's access exposed 8.8M records, including those of people who had died or moved abroad
Met Police eyes SASE with massive network overhaul
"Deliberate disaggregation of our infrastructure"
Anthropic reconfigures its cool kids security program
Company's Project Glasswing and Cyber Verification Program metamorphose into triple tier threat hunting club
Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up
Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb
Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity
SAP buys AI workforce startup TechWolf
The software giant has bought up four startups so far in 2026 as it boosts its own AI abilities.
Advisers urged to rethink low-risk portfolios for inflation era
Advisers should reassess traditional low-risk portfolios as a more inflation-prone environment raises the risks associated with bond-heavy strategies, delegates at MMI London today (6 October) heard.
Wikimedia Foundation comes forward as latest OpenAI agent assault victim
Millions of automated requests may have contributed to partial Wikidata outage in May
Runtime: Why building long-haul agents is so tricky
+ Anthropic's new national security advisor, and Deutsche Telekom thinks AI will save it €2.5 billion.
Microsoft extends the Outlook naughty step with two more file types
You didn't really want to be sending around .msix and .msixbundle files, did you?
Advice profession needs ‘diverse blood, not just new or young’
The industry needs to remove the barriers preventing new and diverse entrants from joining the profession if it is to recruit the next generation of financial professionals.
Plaid launches credit, fraud and payment risk AI models
Open finance fintech Plaid has unveiled AI models designed to help financial firms make better lending decisions, catch more fraud, and reduce payment risk.
Classic Outlook clings to stale search results as Microsoft works on a fix
Moved messages linger and throw errors when clicked, leaving Windows Desktop Search as the workaround
Personio acquires spend management platform Circula
German unicorn Personio has purchased fellow German fintech Circula, one of Europe's largest spend management platforms.
Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets
Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances
Deutsche Telekom says AI will deliver €2.5bn in savings by 2030
Europe's largest telco is rolling out more AI tools "to be less dependent on people".
Asos app delivers a data leak threat instead of fast fashion
Rogue notification claims Snowflake instance compromised, but customer info theft remains unverified
M&A intelligence platform Comparables.ai raises $6m
Finnish mergers and acquisitions intelligence platform Comparables.ai has raised $6 million in seed funding.
JPMorgan Chase extends lead as world's most AI-advanced bank
JPMorgan Chase has extended its lead as the world's most artificial intelligence-advanced bank, once again topping the Evident AI Index.
Trump Mobile customers' data dumped - and some never even received their gold device
M&G: Following up on pensions and IHT
A little over a year ago, nearly 2,000 advisers attended an M&G webinar on the upcoming changes to pensions and IHT, which generated many questions around the scope of the new rules. A year in and a similar-sized webinar generated more good questions, this time
Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered invest in OKX
Crypto exchange OKX has secured strategic investment from Circle, QRT, Ripple and SC Ventures at a $25 billion valuation.
ASOS confirms cyber attack
ASOS has stressed that it does not believe that payment-card information or account passwords were impacted in a hacker incident earlier today.
Rachel Wells breaks down Not On The High Street’s new campaigns
Not On The High Street will be running consecutive campaigns from now until December, as part of an 120 per cent investment in TV and VOD investment.
Cotswold Outdoor expands retail media network with in-store advertising push
Cotswold Outdoor Group has expanded its retail media network into stores as it looks to give brand partners more ways to reach shoppers across physical and digital channels.
How Can Banks Serve SME’s Growing Cross-Border Needs?
At Sibos 2026, Mastercard’s Pratik Khowala reveals how banks and fintechs can retain SME loyalty through trust, speed, and value-added services.