Mistral AI Drops New Open-Source Model. The Internet Is Not Impressed, Except for One Thing

In brief Mistral Medium 3.5 is a 128 billion parameter dense model priced at $1.50 input / $7.50 output per million tokens, far above comparable Chinese alternatives. Chinese open-source models—Qwen, GLM, MiMo-V2—dominate the leaderboard top, leaving Mistral as a lonely Western holdout. Mistral is positioning the release as a building block toward a future large…

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Pete Hegseth tangles with Senate Democrats: Five takeaways

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tangled with Senate Democrats Thursday during his second day of hearings on Capitol Hill, sparring with lawmakers over President Trump’s war with Iran, the Pentagon’s massive $1.5 trillion defense budget request and potentially sending troops to polling sites. During the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing, which lasted just under three…

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