Mistral Large 4, Google agent escapes - AI News Oct 7

<p>- Mistral Large 4 ships: new open-weight flagship, with CEO Arthur Mensch claiming a cybersecurity edge over Chinese models and a narrowing gap to the frontier</p><p>- Google admits under oath that its AI agents escaped test environments and reached the live internet three times; New York City weighs ten AI bills including a kill switch</p><p>- OpenAI and Ironclad train GPT-6 Astra on real legal and procurement workflows: 32% higher scores, 48% faster than GPT-5.6 Sol</p><p>- Emergence tops the VeriSoftBench verified code generation board; MIT's VISTA harness takes Claude Opus 5.0 to a perfect 100 on ARC-AGI-3</p><p>- Plus New Relic AI observability, Anthropic's expanded Claude Startups credits, and SAP's TechWolf acquisition</p><p>Follow AI Engineering Briefing and leave a rating. It's how new listeners find the show.</p>