OpenSight News Flash News Flash, Sunday, November 1, 2026
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This is the OpenSight News Flash for Sunday, November 1, 2026. This episode is read by an AI voice.
Mistral publishes the weights of its trillion-parameter Large 4 model. Mistral, the French AI company, has released the full weights of Mistral Large 4. The model has about one trillion parameters. Anyone can now download it and run it on their own hardware. Mistral says it is the strongest open model for coding and for security work such as finding and fixing vulnerabilities. The weights are on Hugging Face under a modified MIT licence. Use, fine-tuning and commercial use are allowed. Companies that want to sell the model as a hosted cloud service need a separate licence. That report is from Mistral AI.
Binance loses about six billion dollars in the largest theft on record. Attackers stole about six point four billion dollars from Binance, the largest crypto exchange, on 29 October. It is the largest theft on record. The money left ten blockchains in about twenty minutes. On 31 October the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, said a North Korean group known as TraderTraitor was behind it. Binance said the attack started on an engineer's laptop, which gave access to a service container that could submit withdrawals. Blockchain analysts say about half of the assets have been frozen. That report is from Chainalysis.
Apple Intelligence comes to China in December, powered by Alibaba's Qwen. Apple has confirmed that its AI features will launch in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3. A developer beta starts on 4 November. Users in China will reach Alibaba's Qwen model through Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence. It ends a wait of about two years since the US launch. The first wave covers the basic features, among them live translation, writing tools, photo clean up, Genmoji and notification summaries. The new Siri assistant shown this summer is not part of it. That report is from The Next Web.
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