Abu Dhabi's Institute of Foundation Models and Inception42 released Jais 3, six open Arabic language models plus a speech recognition model that handles dialects from 19 Arab countries.
Thoma Bravo-owned Proofpoint has agreed to acquire data security company Varonis in an all-cash deal at $49.75 per share. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
After a round of checkouts and tiny mirror adjustments, NASA says the Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument is performing nearly 30% better than predicted.
NASA's Perseverance rover passed Opportunity's record on October 11, reaching 28.10 miles on Mars, and did it in five and a half years instead of almost 15.
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NVIDIA's new open Nemotron 3.5 models range from a 120B vision-language model for enterprise agents to Bolt models that run locally in 24GB and 4GB.
OpenAI
OpenAI has given developers three months' notice: GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini leave the API on January 14, 2027, fine-tuned versions included.
Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out globally across the Gemini API, AI Studio, Google Cloud and the Gemini app, with introductory pricing of $2/$10 per million tokens through November 30.
Meta
Meta has released the weights of Muse Spark Open, a multimodal mixture-of-experts model built for coding and agentic work that can run locally on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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