27 September 2026

Trump invited Anthropic's CEO to a private dinner at the White House

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will have a private dinner with Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday evening, Axios reports, and CNBC confirms it as well. It will be their first one-on-one meeting: Trump invited Amodei personally because the Anthropic CEO could not attend Thursday's state dinner in honor of Xi Jinping, which was attended by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg, among others. On Tuesday, Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet with the heads of the biggest AI companies at the White House.

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From recent days

Audi RS 5: all 2026 production sold out, European orders nearly double expectations - now sales start outside Europe

Audi said on Wednesday, October 7, that this year's entire production of the new RS 5 is sold out and that it has nearly twice as many orders in Europe as it expected. The 470 kW (639 hp) plug-in hybrid, built in Neckarsulm, is now going on sale in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, followed by Korea, Taiwan and other overseas markets. Audi is tying the market launch to the Singapore Grand Prix (October 9-11), the brand's first F1 night race; Nico Hülkenberg's and Gabriel Bortoleto's R26 cars and the RS 5 on display in Singapore received a special Titanium Silver Gray paint for the occasion, which cannot be ordered.

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Stack Overflow: six in ten developers try to avoid AI, even though 65 percent use coding assistants

That is the finding of a Stack Overflow survey of 30,000 developers from 169 countries, whose results CNN saw ahead of publication scheduled for Tuesday, October 6. 74 percent of respondents find AI useful for writing code and 72 percent for finding bugs, but only 34.4 percent for other tasks, and 6.6 percent would trust it with important decisions. Nearly a third are unhappy at work (28.4 percent a year earlier), while 22.3 percent are "happy." Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar points to burnout and uncertainty about how much of the work will be automated.

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Mistral Large 4 ranks highest in the Artificial Analysis index among models from outside the US and China - but five Chinese open models rank higher

Mistral released a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter model (52 billion active) trained from scratch on 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips in the company's European data centers; open weights are due by the end of October. According to independent firm Artificial Analysis, the model scored 38 points on its intelligence index, the same as GPT-6 Luna, and ranks highest among models from outside the US and China, but at least five Chinese open models score more, and an index task costs $1.13 with it, compared with $0.25 with GLM-5.3-Flash, Tom's Hardware reports. Large 4's strongest result is 82 percent on the CyberGym-E2E-AA test, the highest of all models; according to Mistral, Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra score close to zero there because they refuse to perform the task.

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