Wednesday, October 07
Daily Tech News 7 October 2026
Girl With The Gat Edition
Girl With The Gat Edition
Top Story
- French AI company Mistral has unveiled - not released as yet, but announced - its latest open-weight AI model, Mistral Large 4. (CNBC)
At 1 trillion parameters it is aptly named.
- Codename: Le Chonk. (Mistral)
I'm not even kidding.
Tech News
- Cable lobby groups have announced plans to sue the FCC for (checks notes) not staying bought. (Ars Technica)
Are they supposed to say that part?
- The Canadian Medical Association has published research claiming that permanent daylight saving time will cause earthquakes, tidal waves, irrevocable damage to the ozone layer, and orf. (Sci News)
But not nearly as much as they plan to do.
- Number one: The larch. (Signore Galilei)
Oops. Gave that one away.
- Anthropic's Claude plans are the best value if you use AI a lot - like for example you're developing an entire suite of fantasy emulators - but not so much that you need more than a single plan offers. (The Register)
Volume-based usage via their API costs up to 25 times as much, so don't do that.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: That time I got reincarnated as a goblin with the weakest class and cheat skills and my fiance wants to murder me, so what?
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