today.paradigm7

Mistral puts a trillion-parameter model on Hugging Face

Mistral released the weights of Mistral Large 4: 1T parameters, 52B active, multimodal, trained on 3,800 Grace Blackwells in Europe. Modified MIT license: fine-tune and ship freely, but hosting it as a service needs a commercial deal. Self-reported, it ties GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index with 47% fewer tokens. The most serious non-Chinese open model you could run at home quantized. Mistral

AI

Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Intelligence Index. It scores 59, one point over Claude Opus 5.5, with 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro. Access is limited to vetted cyber defenders. Google

An open model exploits the Firefox patch gap for about $1,000. Epoch AI let GLM 5.3 read public-but-unshipped fixes and build exploits; it succeeded on all six releases tested, with no refusals. Epoch AI

Someone compiled a RISC-V CPU into Qwen3.5 4B’s weights. Qwenputer uses Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM and lifts long-integer arithmetic from 48.6% to 100%, with no training. Qwenputer

Hardware & infra

Samsung posts the first 100-trillion-won quarter in tech. KRW 107.4T operating profit, almost all memory; Samsung expects 2027 AI demand to far outrun supply. Samsung

Tools & harnesses

Claude Code spends a sixth of its tokens captioning itself. Every 30 seconds it sends each background agent’s transcript to Opus for a 3–5 word status label; one team’s OTel data puts that at 16.4% of spend. Fix included. GitHub gist

Repo of the day: tinyworldformer. A 26k–131k parameter world model running five games on a Pi Pico 2 W, in Rust. GitHub

World

Binance loses about $6.3B, the largest crypto theft ever. Entry point: a DevOps engineer’s laptop, not a leaked key. Analysts point to North Korea; Binance will cover all losses. CoinDesk

A Russian strike on a Dnipro rail platform killed at least 14. The Oleshky ceasefire holds, though: aid is in and residents cut off since 2022 can leave. Meduza

Spark

Eighty-eight years ago tonight, Orson Welles aired “The War of the Worlds.” The panic was mostly invented next morning by newspapers that feared radio. Note who writes the story.Smithsonian, on the 1938 broadcast

Open weights and a $1,000 exploit pipeline landed on the same day. Good defenders run both.