The Daily Index — Wednesday, July 9, 2025 · TLDR Index

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MISTRAL IS REPORTEDLY IN TALKS TO RAISE $1B

Mistral is negotiating to raise $1 billion from investors like Abu Dhabi's MGX fund and French lenders such as Bpifrance SACA. The French AI startup, known for its Le Chat chatbot and open-weight LLMs, has already raised $1.19 billion, reaching a $6.51 billion valuation. Mistral is collaborating with MGX and Nvidia to build Europe's largest AI data center, aligned with the UAE's €50 billion AI investment in France.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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AUTOMATING ORAL ARGUMENT

A Harvard Law graduate who argued before the Supreme Court fed his case briefs into Claude 4 Opus and had it answer the same questions the Justices posed to him. The AI delivered what he called an "outstanding oral argument" with coherent answers and clever responses he hadn't considered, leading him to conclude that AI lawyers could soon outperform even top human advocates at oral argument.

adamunikowsky.substack.com · 12 min

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GEMINI NANO IN CHROME 137: NOTES FOR AI ENGINEERS

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swyx.io · 4 min

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SMOLLM3 RELEASED BY HUGGING FACE

Hugging Face's SmolLM3 is a fully open 3B-parameter language model that supports six languages, strong reasoning capabilities, and long-context processing. It targets high performance in the small model segment.

huggingface.co · 29 min

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PEOPLE ARE USING AI CHATBOTS TO GUIDE THEIR PSYCHEDELIC TRIPS

In the few states where it's legal, in-person psychedelic therapy can cost thousands of dollars per session, gated by lengthy waiting lists. As a cheaper, faster alternative, users are turning to AI tripsitters. Companies are following suit too: Mindbloom, for example, is already integrating AI into its ketamine programs. Experts doubt that AI can provide the emotional attunement they consider essential for safe psychedelic experiences.

wired.com · 13 min

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THESE TESLA, X, AND XAI ENGINEERS WERE JUST POACHED BY OPENAI

OpenAI has reportedly poached high-level engineers from Tesla, xAI, X, Meta, and other companies. The engineers include Tesla's Vice President of Software Engineering David Lau, X and xAI's head of infrastructure engineering Uday Ruddarraju, fellow xAI infrastructure engineer Mike Dalton, and Angela Fan, an AI researcher from Meta. This article looks at the new hires and their backgrounds and specialties.

teslarati.com · 3 min

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OPENAI TIGHTENS SECURITY OVER IP CONCERNS

After alleging that DeepSeek improperly copied its models using distillation techniques, OpenAI implemented "information tenting" policies, biometric access controls, and offline isolation of proprietary technology.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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MICROSOFT, OPENAI, AND ANTHROPIC INVEST $23 MILLION TO TRAIN 400,000 TEACHERS IN AI

The companies are launching the National Academy of AI Instruction with teachers' unions as schools struggle with AI's role in education.

amp.cnn.com · 2 min

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LANGCHAIN IS ABOUT TO BECOME A UNICORN, SOURCES SAY

LangChain is an AI infrastructure startup that provides tools for building and monitoring large language model-powered applications.

techcrunch.com · 2 min