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Oct 14, 2026, 11:38 AM EDT
Mistral Acquires New Material, Launches Solutions Design Team
Mistral buys New Material, a six-year product and design studio, and folds it into a new Solutions Design function that co-develops with enterprise and government buyers.
Oct 14, 2026, 1:34 AM EDT
406 AI Researchers Call to Airgap Cyber-Capable Models by Default
Hinton, Bengio, Russell, and Rivest join 400+ scientists asking for high-assurance containment, an international standards body, and mandatory public incident reporting after disclosed sandbox escapes.
Oct 13, 2026, 10:29 PM EDT
Gemini 4 Argon Lands in Cursor and Vercel's AI Gateway, Matching Claude Opus 5.5 on CursorBench
The same day Google took Gemini 4 Argon fully live, Cursor added it to its model picker at $2/$10 per million tokens; Vercel's AI Gateway also opened it to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor users through one gateway key.

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Four-box explainer for llama.cpp b11521, server manifest reuse, MLX compaction, and Codex picker listing with a pin-RC-first test plan

October 12, 2026

Ollama v0.40.4-rc0 Updates llama.cpp for Decision Models, Reuses Manifests, Lists Models in Codex Picker

Ollama v0.40.4-rc0 is a pre-release that updates llama.cpp to b11521 for decision models and EmbeddingGemma 2, reuses manifests in inference routes, compacts MLX state, and surfaces local models in the Codex picker. Here is how to test it.

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