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Clean, well-structured News piece using the Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know / Analysis format. Technical depth is appropriate and the article is careful to separate confirmed benchmark facts from what remains unknown (availability, customers, real-world performance).

All three source snapshots read from disk and verified. source-0 (The Decoder, 200): confirms the 8B model, single RGB camera, up-to-79.4% R2R-CE success rate, beats best single-camera method and depth/multi-camera systems, simulation-only training on ~400,000 paths across 6,000 virtual spaces, wheeled/legged/flying support, no availability details, navigation as foundation for universal robotics, +3.2 percentage-point RL gain, and the verbatim quote 'We are confident that more training and more experiments will continue to push this number up.' source-1 (PYMNTS, 200): confirms the 8B parameter count, single standard RGB camera and no depth sensors, verbatim example command 'Leave the lobby, walk through the corridor, enter the supply room, and stop to face the second shelf,' the 76.6% R2R-CE validation-unseen figure, target applications (manufacturing, delivery, logistics, hospitality), and both financing figures (valued at 11.7B EUR / ~$13.4B September Series C raising 1.7B EUR; in talks to raise ~3B EUR at ~20B EUR valuation). source-2 (Global Banking & Finance, 200): confirms July 8 unveiling of Mistral's first robotics model, the factories/warehouses/industrial-automation framing, multi-supplier hardware compatibility, the May acquisition of Austria's Emmi AI (a physics-AI specialist with 30+ researchers joining Mistral), and the Genesis AI comparison.

Every number, name, quote, and date traces to a cited source. Critically, the two benchmark figures are correctly split by outlet: 76.6% (R2R-CE validation unseen) is attributed only to PYMNTS, which carries it, and the up-to-79.4% success rate is attributed only to The Decoder, which carries it. Neither number was cross-contaminated. No hallucinations detected.

High-quality, fully sourced News submission. All integrity checks pass, all three sources verified from snapshot, and each specific claim maps to the outlet that carries it. Ready for publication as APPROVE.