With Gemini Intelligence, Google is introducing new AI features for Android that automate multi-step tasks, summarize web content, fill out forms, and turn spoken thoughts into polished text messages. The article…
Anthropic launches twelve new Claude plugins for legal work covering contract law, employment law, and litigation, while connecting the chatbot to services like Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Legal and Harvey. According to…
Google's Threat Intelligence Group has identified the first known case of an attacker using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day vulnerability. Google says it stopped the planned mass attack. State-backed actors…
Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug research company led by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, has closed a $2.1 billion Series B round led by Thrive Capital. The funding will go toward expanding its in-house platform IsoDDE…
Microsoft Israel's top executive is out after an internal investigation into the unit's work with Israel's defense ministry. Reporting over the past years points to what's likely at the center of it all: cloud…
Amazon employees are automating unnecessary tasks just to climb internal AI leaderboards. The article "Tokenmaxxing" spreads at Amazon as employees game internal AI leaderboards appeared first on The Decoder.
Mira Murati's start-up presents its first AI model and aims to free voice AI from the question-and-answer model. The model processes audio, video and text in 200-millisecond chunks in parallel and aims to beat OpenAI's…
Sam Altman's personal investments face political scrutiny ahead of OpenAI's planned IPO. The article Sam Altman's personal investments face political scrutiny ahead of OpenAI's planned IPO appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI has offered the EU Commission direct access to its new GPT-5.5 Cyber model for security review, with talks already underway. Anthropic is proving harder to pin down: after four to five meetings on its Mythos…
Baidu's Ernie 5.1 uses just a third of its predecessor's parameters and reportedly cost only six percent of what comparable models require to pre-train. That's possible thanks to a "Once-For-All" approach that extracts…
OpenAI is building a consulting and implementation business. The "OpenAI Deployment Company," internally called DeployCo, is a majority-controlled subsidiary designed to help companies integrate AI systems into their…
OpenAI is facing a lawsuit over the mass shooting at Florida State University. According to the complaint, the shooter spent months talking to ChatGPT about guns and shootings. Florida's attorney general has launched a…
Language models find security flaws faster and turn patches into working exploits in minutes. A veteran researcher says the established disclosure process needs to change. The article AI turns patches into working…
A Bloomberg investigation shows how generative AI and autonomous agents are supercharging identity theft in the US, from social security number lookups on the darknet to deepfake driver's licenses. The article…
Nvidia has invested more than $40 billion in AI companies in 2025, cementing its role as the industry's biggest backer. The article Nvidia pumps over 40 billion dollars into AI partners so far in 2026 appeared first on…
In October 2025, OpenAI organized a $6.6 billion share sale for over 600 current and former employees. Around 75 of them cashed out the maximum cap of $30 million each. President Greg Brockman says he holds shares…
Palisade Research shows that AI agents can hack remote computers, copy themselves onto them, and form replication chains. In one year, the success rate jumped from 6 to 81 percent. The researchers expect remaining…
Palisade Research shows that AI agents can hack remote computers, copy themselves onto them, and form replication chains. In one year, the success rate jumped from 6 to 81 percent. The researchers expect remaining…
Anthropic and OpenAI are turning to religious leaders for help with AI ethics. At the first "Faith-AI Covenant" roundtable in New York, representatives from both companies met with faith leaders from various religions…
ByteDance is raising its planned AI spending for 2026 to over 200 billion yuan (roughly $30 billion), at least a 25 percent jump from earlier plans. The TikTok parent is increasingly turning to Chinese chips. Still…
METR can barely measure Claude Mythos Preview with its current test suite. Only five out of 228 tasks cover the relevant capability range. Meanwhile, Palo Alto Networks reports that frontier models autonomously chain…
OpenAI doubled GPT-5.5's list price compared to GPT-5.4, claiming shorter responses would offset the increase. An OpenRouter analysis of real usage data tells a different story: actual costs rose 49 to 92 percent…
A study by researchers from the MATS program, Redwood Research, the University of Oxford, and Anthropic examines a safety problem that grows more pressing as AI systems become more capable: "sandbagging," where a model…
Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers had ChatGPT 5.5 Pro tackle open problems in number theory. The model improved an exponential bound to a polynomial one in under an hour. An MIT researcher involved calls the key idea…
OpenAI's custom AI chip project with Broadcom has hit a funding wall. Broadcom won't finance production unless Microsoft commits to buying 40 percent of the chips, and Microsoft hasn't agreed yet. OpenAI manager Sachin…
Google frames "Preferred Sources" as a way to bring more quality journalism into search. In practice, it shifts responsibility to a manual setting almost no one will use. That gives Google a user-choice argument for…
Software that claims to read human emotions using AI is quietly becoming a fixture of everyday work life, Ellen Cushing reports in a feature for The Atlantic. The article Pseudoscientific emotion AI is invading the…
Deepseek is planning a funding round of up to $7.35 billion, the largest ever for a Chinese AI company. Deepseek V4.1 is set to launch in June. Meanwhile, Core Automation, founded by ex-OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek…
SoftBank has reduced a loan secured by OpenAI shares from 10 to around 6 billion dollars. Lenders are apparently reluctant to reliably assess the value of an unlisted company like OpenAI. The article SoftBank…
According to the Financial Times, Anthropic's planned funding round is taking shape. The round aims to raise up to $50 billion, which would value the company at roughly $900 billion. The article Anthropic approaches $1…
Anthropic's Natural Language Autoencoders make Claude Opus 4.6's internal activations readable as plain text. Pre-deployment audits show that models often recognize test situations and deliberately deceive evaluators…
OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model variant that rejects far fewer security requests and even actively executes exploits against test servers. Access is limited to verified defenders of critical infrastructure…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview uncovered 271 previously unknown security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150, including bugs up to 20 years old. Mozilla describes an agentic pipeline where the AI builds and runs its own…
OpenAI is shipping three new voice models—GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper—that can reason in real time, translate across 70+ languages, and transcribe live speech. GPT-Realtime-2 brings…
The EU has agreed on simplified AI rules. The "Digital Omnibus on AI" pushes back deadlines for high-risk AI to late 2027 or 2028 and eases requirements for small and medium-sized businesses. "Nudification" apps are…
DeepL, the German AI-powered translation service that competes with Google Translate and other machine translation tools, is laying off roughly 250 employees. The article AI translation company DeepL cuts around 250…
Anthropic is set to tap into Elon Musk's Colossus 1 supercomputer. Behind the surprise deal lie a compute crunch, a looming IPO, and a remarkable about-face by Musk. The article How Anthropic's 80x growth blew past its…
A study from the Anthropic Fellows Program shows that training a language model on texts explaining its intended values before teaching it specific behaviors leads to significantly better adherence to those values…
Google Deepmind is acquiring a minority stake in the studio behind the space MMO EVE Online and will use the game as a testing ground for AI models. The article Google Deepmind takes a stake in EVE Online studio to…
The US and China are exploring official talks on artificial intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reports. The article The US and China are considering formal talks on AI appeared first on The Decoder.
Anthropic is adding "Dreaming" to Claude Managed Agents, an asynchronous process that reviews past agent sessions, cleans up duplicate or outdated memory entries, and distills new insights. Along with Outcomes and…
OpenAI has teamed up with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to develop MRC, an open source network protocol that sends data across hundreds of paths simultaneously between GPUs. Instead of three or four…
Anthropic is taking over the full computing capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, expected to come online within a month. The company is also doubling rate…
Google has released multi-token prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 open model family that speed up text generation by up to three times. A small auxiliary model suggests several tokens at once while the main model…