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Getty Images has entered into a multi-year licensing agreement with OpenAI. The article Getty Images strikes multi-year deal to put licensed photos in ChatGPT search appeared first on The Decoder .

Google Deepmind and film studio A24 are entering a long-term research partnership. Google is also investing roughly $75 million in A24, according to the Wall Street Journal. The article Google Deepmind and A24 team up on AI filmmaking research appeared first on The Decoder .

The Five Eyes intelligence agencies warn: AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are only months away. That's according to the Guardian. The article Five Eyes intelligence alliance says frontier AI models could reshape offensive cyber ops in months appeared first on The Decoder .

To assess the competitive advantage of potential acquisition targets, Bain & Company uses Vibecoding to replicate their software. These AI replicas are already influencing specific purchasing decisions. The article Vibecoding is becoming a deal-breaker test for software acquisitions appeared first on The Decoder .

Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in South Korea and everyone in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. The article Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees in South Korea appeared first on The Decoder .

A UC Berkeley study of more than 500,000 grades found that courses heavy on writing and coding saw grades jump after ChatGPT launched. The effect shows up mainly in homework, a sign that AI is replacing student work rather than improving learning. The article AI is inflating student grades, and the effect points to outsourced work, not better learning appeared first on The Decoder .

At a Stanford talk, Sam Altman defended LLM scaling and hit back at skeptics, saying a whole generation of researchers slowed the field by underestimating what scaling could do. He cited OpenAI's recent disproof of a mathematical conjecture as evidence. The article Sam Altman says a whole generation of researchers held AI back by underestimating what scaling could do appeared first on The Decoder .

At its summit in New York, AWS unveiled two new services. Continuum automatically detects, prioritizes, and fixes code vulnerabilities. Context builds a knowledge graph from corporate data to give AI agents the business context they need. Both tackle the same problem: agents that write code fast but get things wrong too often. The article AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps appeared first on The Decoder .

Eurocommerce, the trade association behind Amazon, H&M, and IKEA, wants AI-generated ads exempt from the EU AI Act's transparency rules. The argument: an AI-generated living room image used to sell a sofa isn't a deepfake. Zalando alone says 90 percent of the marketing content on its platform is already AI-generated. The article The EU doesn't really know what a deepfake is, and that's becoming a problem for retail appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI has released the "Record & Replay" feature for its Codex app on macOS: users demonstrate a workflow once, Codex converts it into a reusable "skill," and then repeats it on its own. The feature isn't available yet in the EU, the UK, or Switzerland. The article OpenAI's Codex can now watch you work once and repeat the task forever appeared first on The Decoder .

NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran believes a potential AI crash would be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble because the industry is building massive amounts of debt-financed physical infrastructure rather than lightweight software. Even if AI succeeds, he sees a problem. The actual business model is to replace entire jobs, with unclear consequences for society. The article NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust appeared fir

Seven AI agents work together like a newsroom. The "Data Journalist Agent" from Oxford and Stanford turns a CSV file into a finished interactive article with graphics, web research, and verifiable source links for 93 percent of all statements. In a reader study, 74 percent preferred the agent's output over the human original. But against elaborately crafted long-form reports, the agent managed a tie. The article Data2Story turns a CSV file into a verified interactive news article using seven AI

OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT's scheduling feature. A new "Scheduled" page in the sidebar puts all active tasks in one place, letting users view, pause, edit, or delete them. Research tasks search the web and connected apps, sending alerts only when something actually changes. The previous "Pulse" feature is being retired. The article ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls appeared first on The Decoder .

In the first quarter of 2026, OpenAI pulled in $5.7 billion in revenue and burned through about $3.7 billion, both figures tripled year over year. Stock-based compensation alone ate up over $2.3 billion. With $73 billion in reserves, OpenAI doesn't need fresh capital right now, but a price war with Anthropic could change that fast. The article OpenAI tripled revenue to $5.7 billion in Q1 but burned through $3.7 billion to get there appeared first on The Decoder .

Norway is banning generative AI tools in elementary schools starting in late August. Students in grades 1 through 7 won't be allowed to use AI at all; secondary schools will permit it only under supervision. Prime Minister Stoere says children must first "learn to read, write, and do math." The article Norway bans generative AI tools in elementary schools to protect kids' basic learning skills appeared first on The Decoder .

Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google Deepmind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. Days earlier, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Weeks before that, AlphaGo researcher David Silver started his own company. Three of Google's most prominent AI minds, gone within months. The article Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder .

Amazon MGM Studios has dropped "Artificial," the nearly finished OpenAI film directed by Luca Guadagnino with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. Amazon struck a $50 billion partnership with OpenAI in February. According to an insider, both Altman and Musk come off poorly in the film. The case raises questions about how business ties in the tech industry can limit creative freedom. The article Amazon drops its OpenAI drama film after signing a $50 billion deal with Sam Altman's company appeared first

According to the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2026, 10 percent of people worldwide now use AI chatbots for news every week, up from 7 percent a year ago. Only 4 percent regularly click through to the original source. The article More people get news from AI chatbots, but trust remains low appeared first on The Decoder .

Even the best AI model fails at realistic knowledge work, fully solving just 3 percent of tasks. The article New benchmark exposes how badly AI struggles with real knowledge work appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI researchers show that reinforcement learning on desired behavioral traits like truthfulness and corrigibility works across domains. Training on health data also improved deception detection, and the model scored better on 44 out of 53 benchmarks. The approach differs from Anthropic's constitution-based method. The article OpenAI researchers show small doses of "beneficial trait" training make AI models broadly safer and harder to manipulate appeared first on The Decoder .

Google is appealing the ruling by Germany's Munich Regional Court, which held the company directly liable for inaccurate AI search results. The AI had falsely linked two Munich-based publishers to fraud schemes. Google calls them "minor errors," but the court saw it differently. The article Google appeals ruling that made it directly liable for AI-generated search overview content appeared first on The Decoder .

Two former OpenAI employees have built a website called "In the Weights" that reveals which people AI models can recall purely from their training data. A strength score of up to 996 shows how deeply a person is embedded, with Mozart, Shakespeare, and Taylor Swift topping the list. The article Website "In the Weights" shows whether AI models know who you are appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT's healthcare capabilities with GPT-5.5 Instant. In the company's own comparative tests, the model now outscores answers written by doctors in accuracy, clarity, and completeness. The error rate for health-related statements has dropped by 71 percent, according to OpenAI. The article ChatGPT's new health upgrade beats doctor-written answers, OpenAI says appeared first on The Decoder .

Claude Code can now turn work results into interactive web pages called "artifacts" and share them with your team. The pages pull from the full session context, update automatically when something changes, and keep a version history. The article Anthropic brings Artifacts to Claude Code, letting teams share live pages from coding sessions appeared first on The Decoder .

SK Telecom had access to Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos through the company's partner program Project Glasswing until the White House stepped in. US officials saw ties between the South Korean conglomerate and China. The article Alleged China ties at SK Telecom alarmed US officials and triggered Anthropic crisis appeared first on The Decoder .

Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents as potential insider threats. The company's new "AI Control Roadmap" ties security measures to measurable AI capabilities, and an analysis of one million coding tasks shows most problems stem from overzealous agents, not malicious intent. Deepmind warns the window for global security standards is closing fast. The article Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents like rogue employees with office keys appeared first on The Decoder .

Two new studies published in Nature show that specialized AI systems diagnose diseases and make treatment decisions as well as physicians in simulated patient cases, sometimes even better. Both systems run on base models that are already outdated. The article AI systems rival doctors in new Nature studies, but one result suggests the tech won't age well appeared first on The Decoder .

According to Yann LeCun, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are heading for a "big bubble explosion": Their operations are effectively subsidized by investors, and operating costs aren't dropping fast enough, he says. LeCun's criticism isn't entirely selfless: his own startup, AMI Labs, raised $1 billion for an alternative approach to AI. The article Yann LeCun warns AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic face a "big bubble explosion" appeared first on The Decoder .

Rumors about Midjourney hardware have circulated for years, but nobody saw this coming. The AI image startup is building a full-body ultrasound scanner and opening its own spa in San Francisco to house it. The article Midjourney, known for AI image generation, unveils a full-body ultrasound scanner and its own spa appeared first on The Decoder .

Adobe is rolling out its "creative agent" across its main Creative Cloud apps and third-party AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. Users describe what they want, and the software handles the multi-step work. The article Adobe adds AI agents to Photoshop, Premiere, and more Creative Cloud apps appeared first on The Decoder .

Noam Shazeer, co-author of the landmark "Attention Is All You Need" paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, is joining OpenAI. He only returned to Google from Character.AI in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion deal. After Karpathy's move to Anthropic, it's the second major AI hiring shake-up this year. The article Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint appeared first on The Decoder .

A Microsoft researcher built a working neural network out of goats, bridges, and ice ramps in the Age of Empires II map editor. What looks like a joke is a pointed critique of AI research methods. His analysis of 315 papers found that more than half already assume language models have human-like traits before the experiment even starts. Replace the chat interface with wandering goats, and the math doesn't change, but the feeling that you're talking to someone does. The article Microsoft research

Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD are putting $310 million into world model startup Odyssey ML, now valued at $1.45 billion. CIA-linked fund IQT and Google chief scientist Jeff Dean are also backing the round. World models are shaping up to be the next big AI bet after pure language models. The article Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD bet $310 million on AI startup building 3D world models appeared first on The Decoder .

Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.2 with a stable 1-million-token context under the MIT license. On FrontierSWE, a benchmark for hours-long coding tasks, the open-source model trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 by just one percentage point. On reasoning, it still falls well behind closed-source rivals. The article Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 closes in on closed-source leaders in coding marathons appeared first on The Decoder .

Researchers from Nvidia, Carnegie Mellon University, and UC Berkeley are using AI coding agents to teach robots dexterous grasping in the real world. A fleet of eight robots hits up to 99 percent success on tricky tasks. The article Nvidia research shows robots that train themselves through AI coding agents appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI researchers propose a method for predicting how often a new AI model will make mistakes after release. It could fill gaps left by standard safety testing. The article OpenAI researchers want to predict how often AI models will fail before launch appeared first on The Decoder .

According to an Epoch AI analysis, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are growing their AI infrastructure spending by about 70 percent a year, while operating cash flow is only rising at 23 percent. If the trend holds, spending could overtake cash flow as early as Q3 2026. Several of these companies are already tapping outside funding. The article Hyperscalers may soon be unable to fund their AI buildout from cash flow alone appeared first on The Decoder .

Microsoft is weighing a fine-tuned version of Deepseek V4 as a cheaper model option for Copilot Cowork. The company is also switching to usage-based billing, since Copilot head Charles Lamanna says flat-rate pricing isn't sustainable. The move fits a broader pattern in the industry. The article Microsoft's Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and may tap DeepSeek appeared first on The Decoder .

A Berlin court has ruled that Google's AI-generated summaries are just a "new search result format" and that Google has no "decisive influence" over the content. A perfume company had sued because AI search displayed its brand names alongside cheaper knockoffs and linked to their websites. The ruling partly contradicts a recent Munich decision that held Google directly liable for false AI responses, though the two cases are quite different. The article Berlin court rules Google's AI Overviews ar

Just two trading days after its IPO, Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying AI coding startup Anysphere. The deal is meant to help the struggling xAI division catch up with Anthropic and OpenAI. The article SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder .