September 8, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

• Mistral raises €3 billion to build a sovereign, open-weight AI stack: the funding will expand frontier research, compute, infrastructure, and the company’s international commercial footprint.
• Inception releases Mercury 2.5, a faster and more capable diffusion language model: the production model delivers 1,107 tokens per second, a 260K context window, tunable reasoning, and low-cost inference for search, voice, and coding workloads.
• Cognition raises over $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation for proactive software agents: the company reports nearly $900 million in run-rate revenue and outlines a future where Devin automates more engineering work across incident response, security, and developer workflows.
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with faster generation and more precise editing: the new image model improves reference fidelity and multi-turn consistency, cuts latency by up to 50%, and adds Sketch, templates, and image comments.