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- NASA astronauts expected to land at 6 PM ET on Tue. after 9 months
- Alphabet said to announce Wizās $33B deal on Tue.
- Mistral releases Small 3.1 open-weight AI model to rival GPT-4o Mini
- Cognition AI is said to have hit $4B valuation in new funding
- U.S. retail sales rise less than expected
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1. NASA astronauts expected to land at 6 PM ET on Tue. after 9 months in orbit
Tue.: Butch Wilmore and Suni Willams boarded a SpaceX capsule.
Boeing spacecraftās technical issues extended their stay in the ISS.
Jun.: the duo reached the ISS.
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3. Alphabet said to announce Wizās $33B deal on Tue.
Alphabet and Wiz discussed a $23B deal last summer, but it fell through.
Wiz could help boost Google Cloud among customers.
Would be Alphabetās largest acquisition to date.
$1B in ARR was targeted for 2025 by Wiz after generating $500M in Jul.
2020: Wiz was founded by 4 former Israeli military officials.
Adallom was previously co-founded by the quartet that Microsoft acquired in 2015 for $320M.
4. Mistral releases Small 3.1 as new open-weight AI model to take on GPT-4o Mini, Gemma 3
Mistral Small 3.1 has surpassed GPT-4o Mini, Gemma 3-it (27B), and Anthropicās Claude-3.5 HaikuĀ on GPQA-Diamond benchmark, per Mistral:
