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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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Diagram showing LFM2.5-24B-A2B architecture and agent deployment capabilities: 24B total parameters with 2B active MoE, 131K context window, 184 tok/s on M5 Max, and tool-calling post-training in OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Pi, and OpenCode harnesses.

October 13, 2026

Liquid AI Ships LFM2.5-24B-A2B: A 2B-Active-Parameter MoE for On-Device Code Agents at 184 Tokens per Second

Liquid AI releases the final LFM2.5 model with open weights, 131K context, and tool-calling post-training. It decodes 184 tok/s on an Apple M5 Max and leads AutomationBench by 3× over the next-best MoE.

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