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Monday, September 14, 2026
AI Lately

AI is about people, and what they have been up to lately.

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Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8

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Arthur Mensch

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In the archive

  • Frontier Models

    Open Weights, Open Questions

    DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng, Alibaba's largely anonymous Qwen organization and Mistral's Arthur Mensch built three distinct paths to open-weight scale, and a 234-million-user app proves the category converts into genuine usage, past mere benchmark bragging rights.

  • Capital & Markets

    The Signal Brief: Tuesday's Sovereignty, Shields, and Sudden Exits

    Mistral's record raise, dueling cybersecurity models from OpenAI and Google, and a mathematician's public fight with OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck show capital and code both racing toward independence this week.

  • Geopolitics

    Compute Nationalism: How Mistral Turned a Funding Round Into Foreign Policy

    Arthur Mensch turned a three-billion-euro funding round into a geopolitical statement, recruiting Samsung, Emmanuel Macron, and South Korea's president to cast Mistral as Europe's answer to compute dependency.

  • Safety & Security

    The Signal Brief: Friday's Prophets, Partnerships, and Policy

    Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic, Qualcomm's sixty-billion-dollar wager on Amazon's data centers, and OpenAI's push for binding safety law show capital and conscience moving at matched speed this week.