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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
A new Crossy Road game is coming next month.

Crossy Road Rush puts the cute blocky animals into a runner mobile game. It looks pretty charming. It’s releasing exclusively on Apple Arcade on November 5th.

Robert Hart
Robert Hart
The next hot open AI model is named Le Chonk.

French AI startup Mistral says its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4 — also called Le Chonk — is the best open-weight model developed outside of China. It says it’s particularly strong at coding, cybersecurity, and tasks in finance, engineering, and manufacturing. The model is currently available in preview, with weights dropping at the end of October.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
FBI blames unpatched third-party platform for massive ShinyHunters security breach.

Reuters reports the FBI removed a contractor for failing to implement a security patch, with sources reporting it was an Accenture worker managing Oracle’s PeopleSoft platform. Last month, hacking group ShinyHunters claimed they used the HR platform to access data on “all FBI employees and applicants.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Figma’s AI agent for product design is now generally available.

The design agent initially launched in beta in May, and among other new features, you can now can add guidelines for the Figma agent to reference and follow what your colleagues’ agents are doing.

A Figma promotional image of AI agents working at the same time.
Image: Figma
Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Lucid’s EV sales slip.

The company just released its third quarter sales in report, in which it recorded a 6.7 percent decrease in deliveries and a whopping 24 percent drop in production. Lucid said it only built 2,954 vehicles in Q3, a 38 percent drop from the previous quarter and the lowest number of vehicles for the company since early 2025. But Lucid said this is all part of the plan:

Deliveries exceeded production as the company continued to execute its planned inventory reduction, converting existing vehicle inventory into customer deliveries as part of the previously announced operating reset targeting $1.4 billion of cash flow improvements in 2026.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Spotify’s new music quizzes test your knowledge about your favorite artists.

The feature is rolling out to Spotify Premium subscribers, presenting you with questions about music trivia, album cover art, and audio track previews. You can find a music quiz by scrolling down on the “Now Playing” view of a participating artist’s song.

Spotify is launching the feature in 11 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, and Australia, with more than 2,000 supported artists.