Three more weeks of reinforcement learning took Mistral Large 4 from 28% to 41% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, a single point past China's GLM-5.3, and the trillion-parameter weights are now on Hugging Face - on benchmark figures Mistral supplied itself.

US intelligence believes Alice Huang of Megaspeed - whose Malaysian affiliate bought $4.8BN of Nvidia hardware - fed information to Beijing while close to Jensen Huang, who was never warned; Trump was briefed a year ago and left it alone.

Emerging research on data-centre health effects has turned approvals into a midterm liability in Arizona, Ohio and Texas - one political scientist calls year-old local sign-offs 'career-ending' - though the health science itself is still thin.