Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are now within striking distance of the best US models. Western labs blame distillation, and there's real evidence for it. But guilty or not, the conclusion is the same: a model lead can't be defended. This issue looks at what can. The article Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead? appeared first on The Decoder .
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential crisis many lead mathematicians are having about it. OpenAI just published a set of solutions to longstanding problems in math that went off like a bombshell in the field. […]
Robotics startup Generalist AI has unveiled GEN-1.5, an AI model that teaches robots new tasks from a single demonstration. The article GEN-1.5: Generalist AI teaches robots new tasks from a single demo appeared first on The Decoder .
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton calls synthetic data a "big mistake" for scaling large language models. The world is infinitely complex, and any simulation of it is "microscopic," with human expertise acting as a bottleneck that blocks real scaling. Sutton's alternative is agents that learn continually from their own experience instead of relying on frozen models. The article KI-Pioneer Sutton calls synthetic data a "big mistake" in the face of an infinitely complex world appeared first on Th
The company said that the dictation feature works across all apps, just like other tools such as Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue.
Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations. The Slack Code launch includes open, project-specific code channels with dedicated user tabs, alongside features that compare coding changes and preview HTML output before the project is shipped. "With Slack Code, when you have […]
Anthropic uses an unpublished AI model internally that is more powerful than any publicly available version of Claude. The article Anthropic's most capable model, codenamed "Model 2," is for internal use only appeared first on The Decoder .
Binance's Agent OS works with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
<p>‘Emma’ the Rotherham chatbot has 17 languages says AI firm – but health watchdog says system struggling with local ‘twangs’</p><p>Patients in a South Yorkshire town are frustrated by an AI GP receptionist not understanding their “broad accents”, a health watchdog has said.</p><p><a href="https://healthwatchrotherham.org.uk/">Healthwatch Rotherham</a>, a local health and social care watchdog, said a number of practices in the area had introduced a new AI receptionist called Emma.</p> <a href="
Unitree Robotics rose 460 percent in its Shanghai IPO, hitting a valuation of around $50 billion. But an FT report shows much of the demand for its robots comes from state-backed training centers that buy the machines and sell the resulting data back to the manufacturers, a circular business model that echoes the Nvidia criticism in the US. The article China now has its own AI circular financing scheme appeared first on The Decoder .
In a new essay, Terence Tao warns that AI could push mathematics into a crisis on par with the foundational upheaval around 1900. What's being tested this time isn't mathematical truth but the values of the field: what counts as a contribution, what gets rewarded, and who did the work. His rule of thumb: a proof that no human can explain should be considered incomplete. The article Terence Tao says AI could trigger math's biggest crisis since Gödel appeared first on The Decoder .
OpenAI plans to offer its most advanced AI models to corporate customers without storing their data, while still detecting misuse. The article OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without storing customer data appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>For most of modern history, technology sought to imitate humans. Humans increasingly seek to imitate technology</p><p>Two faces that appeared on my Instagram feed in recent months gave me pause. One belonged to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WkoyUEIzvI">John Travolta at Cannes</a>. The other to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOjUQAzCPy-/">Carla Bruni on a date night</a> with her husband, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Both looked recognisably themselves, yet, the
<p>Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to ‘help edit’ an article about some of her students being ‘five to eight years’ behind</p><p>A math professor at the University of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</a>, Berkeley, criticizing a “severe” math deficiency among students in an <a href="https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/08/15/uc-berkeley-sat-test-blind-admissions-math-scores/">op-ed for the San Francisco Standard</a>, admitted to <a href="https://www.dailyca
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.
A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.
SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.
The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.
As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancing its study notebooks with support for graphs and images. It can even add test dates […]
The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched faster.
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t a straightforward way to put a price on compute — or for firms to hedge their exposure when the price changes. Silicon Data […]
With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI development while it tightened security and safeguards. That included a two-week pause […]
Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot, which can provide suggestions, answer questions, or create content based on what's on your screen. Meta AI on the Mac also supports dictation across all apps. The […]
TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.
Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., automatically upgrading users whether or not they subscribe to Prime.
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI. The enterprise AI stack is being rewritten in real time, and the decision
April - 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are all working with Nvidia to put together $500 billion in financing to turn compute […]
It's the data, stupid.
<p>A rise in lawsuits over AI use in employment decisions is raising questions about how companies hire and fire</p><p>For the last four years, Erin Kistler has applied for thousands of jobs at companies like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/paypal">Paypal</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/microsoft">Microsoft</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/netflix">Netflix</a>, only to find her résumé disappear into a black hole. A product manager with nearl
<p>A historian charts the emergence of a democracy-crushing dystopia that is – in some ways – already with us</p><p>Pulitzer prize-winning US historian Jill Lepore’s new book addresses the threat posed to liberal democracy by artificial intelligence. According to Lepore, the extraordinary power of private tech companies led by men whose priorities may not align with the wellbeing of the Earth or its inhabitants is set to destroy civilisation as we know it.</p><p>Lepore’s concept of the Artificia
Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.
<p>Amid race with Anthropic, firm plans to overhaul research and training and require more safety parameters after hack</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/openai">OpenAI</a> on Tuesday said it had slowed down the pace of its AI development while it overhauled its research and training systems.</p><p>The company’s researchers were caught unaware last month when an AI agent under testing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/openai-says-its-models-
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
<p>Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe, writes military surgeon <strong>Dr Darren Mann</strong></p><p>Stuart Russell is right that AI’s builders fear losing control of it (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/11/openai-anthropic-google-deepmind-letter">Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk, 11 August</a>). But it is not only a future superintelligence’s problem; it is already loaded into weapons, where
Starting today, AI chats in Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing mode can pull from current web info and show source links in chat responses through a partnership with Exa. Smart Window can also now automatically suggest tab groups and show visual previews of pages you previously visited when you search your browsing history using natural […]
One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But the barrage of notifications they send often means I miss important ones. So, when Google announced its new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home, […]
OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI tools affect younger users, as other platforms implement their own age checks and teen-specific protections. ChatGPT for Teens is "an experience designed to help teens […]
Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?
Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.
