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ScienceOpenAI bought Orchestra Bio and puts it with Rosalind, its models for the life sciencesOn 20 October OpenAI announced it has acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharma teams coordinate the complex process of drug development. Its team and technology join Rosalind. No deal price has been announced.RoboticsWaymo comes to Madrid aiming for its first riders in 2027On 20 October Waymo announced it is preparing a fully autonomous service in the Madrid region. It starts with manual driving of electric Jaguar I-PACE cars, and the first riders are a goal for 2027. The announcement names no permits and no partners.AudioMistral released Voxtral 3: speech recognition in 50 languages and synthesis in 35+, and a full voice agent starts at $0.04 a minuteMistral announced Voxtral 3 on October 20: speech recognition in 50 languages (Bulgarian is among those tested), synthesis in 35+ languages and an SDK for voice agents. Transcription starts at $0.0035 a minute, a full agent at $0.04. The comparisons with Whisper and the others are Mistral's own.SecurityThe keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates are compromised, and Firefox blocked them in under three hours, with no browser updateMozilla received a report that the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates were compromised, and keys like that can be used to issue fake HTTPS certificates. This is not a code bug, it is compromised keys.ControlThe first harmonised standard for the AI Act is in the Official Journal: EN 18286 shows what a quality system looks like, and following it earns a presumption of conformity under Article 17On 19 October the European Commission announced that the reference to EN 18286:2026 has been published in the Official Journal. The CEN and CENELEC standard gives providers of high-risk AI systems a route to the quality management system requirements under Article 17 of the AI Act. Apply it, and you get a presumption of conformity with the covered requirements, but only those.FrontierDeepSeek opened its search to everyone: $0.75 per 1,000 calls, free through Claude Code and Codex until October 31On October 17 DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017, a minor update to its model with shorter outputs and weights under MIT. The big item in the announcement is the Search & Fetch API: $0.75 per 1,000 calls per endpoint, free through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex until billing starts on October 31 at 16:00 UTC.FrontierReflection released Beam: an open-weight model with 501 billion parameters under Apache 2.0, but even the NVFP4 version weighs about 280 GBOn October 16, Reflection released Beam: a mixture-of-experts model with 501 billion parameters, 23 billion active per token, a 1 million token context and an Apache 2.0 license. Per Hugging Face, the NVFP4 version is about 280 GB and BF16 is about 1 TB. The quality numbers are Reflection's.RoboticsWaymo is coming to Toronto: manual driving from the coming days, and first riders as a goal for 2028On 16 October Waymo announced it is preparing a fully autonomous service in Toronto. In the coming days the cars go out on the streets with a person behind the wheel to map them, and the first riders are a goal for 2028. The fleet partner is Element Fleet Management.
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