Javier Alarcón

Mistral documents how to enable the training opt-out in Vibe, the mobile app, and the API: two separate toggles that you need to configure yourself. The exact steps vary depending on whether you use the consumer plan, Vibe Enterprise, or Mistral Studio.

GPU World is a short story contest imagining a 2040 with billions of GPUs available to all of humanity, even if AI progress freezes in 2026. It awards $100,000 in prizes, judged by Neal Stephenson, Gwern Branwen, and Matt Huang. Submissions close on October 31, 2026.

Nvidia is negotiating to buy Hugging Face for over $13 billion dollars, Business Insider revealed on August 27, 2026. The deal, still unclosed, would give Nvidia control over the central repository of open AI models. Hugging Face had already turned down a smaller Nvidia offer in late 2025.

DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, will join Amazon Web Services (AWS) in early September 2026. The team will stay in Amsterdam, and DuckDB, DuckLake, and Quack will remain free software under the MIT license, governed by the DuckDB Foundation.

The Xring O3, Xiaomi’s new flagship processor, scored 3,945 points on Geekbench single-core and 15,221 on multi-core. Its 44 MB of cache and 21 execution ports point to a trend toward massively parallel ARM cores, though the technical community questions the legitimacy of the figures.

A security researcher discovered that Microsoft Paint and the Photos app embed a server-issued GUID as an invisible watermark in every image generated with local artificial intelligence. The feature is independent of the visible Copilot logo and cannot be turned off from the settings.

UC San Diego announced it will test an experimental power technology to supply AI data centers. The initiative responds to the growing electricity demand required by large-scale AI model training and inference.