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<p>Happy hormones | Fuel costs | Drive-in parking | Guys and girls | Young or old? | Singapore pollution</p><p>Re your report (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/pull-the-plug-protesters-resort-to-direct-action-against-ai-firms">‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms, 6 October</a>), the US neuroscientist Ben Rein has shown that there is a fundamental difference in our cognitive response according to the type of interaction we have. In-perso

Teams of AI agents barely outperform solo agents but cost up to 5.1x more, according to Vals AI. Only one out of four tests with GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 showed a measurable gain. Anthropic's own data backs this up: beyond ten agents, quality plateaus while token costs keep climbing. The article AI agent teams waste massive tokens for barely measurable quality gains, research finds appeared first on The Decoder .

Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break

Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found the same thing: current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific self-criticism and genuine creative thinking. At best, Sol reached 15 percent of the human reference score, and even that came from methods researchers already knew. The models' biggest weakness is still their inability to critically question their own results. The article AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research

A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.

<p>‘Even if AI supercharged the economy, its impact on the government’s finances would be muted’</p><p>Back through political history to the age of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ronald-reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>, Republicans have repeatedly promised the US public that tax cuts would pay for themselves, firing up economic growth and filling the government’s coffers.</p><p>The promise never really panned out. From the Gipper’s day on, the Republicans’ tax cuts inevitably increased th

Data from a16z shows a Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep falling, but H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb. Cheaper AI drives demand faster than costs drop. If that demand flattens, the chain from chip makers to cloud providers takes a hit. The article Cheaper AI tokens are driving more demand, and that's Jensen Huang's best-case scenario appeared first on The Decoder .

Starting October 2026, arXiv will cap submissions at two per person per month. Monthly submissions have doubled in two years, and in the cs.AI category they've grown more than sixfold. According to arXiv, a small fraction of authors are flooding the platform with low-quality papers, overwhelming its volunteer moderators. The article ArXiv caps submissions at two per month as AI paper flood overwhelms the preprint server appeared first on The Decoder .

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now calls artificial intelligence "super intelligence" instead of artificial intelligence, falling in line with Trump's preferred language. In his latest blog post, he frames AI models as insider security threats, taking yet another shot at OpenAI and Anthropic. The real motive is business: Microsoft risks falling behind as AI labs turn their models into the primary computer interface. The article Microsoft's Nadella bows to Trump's language diktat on "Super Intellige

<p>This is no scoffing matter. The accelerating proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons is bringing ‘end times’ closer by the day</p><p>Humankind has fearfully and sometimes joyfully anticipated the end of the world ever since it began. The Bible’s Book of Revelation speaks of “end times”, a period of tribulation, war, famine, plague, floods and environmental catastrophe that may seem a less absurd prospect today than perhaps it once did. Islam, too, posits a fateful day of judgment or day of

Odyssey is making its world model Odyssey-3 available as a public research preview. The 14-billion-parameter model generates interactive environments from text prompts in real time and can reportedly control robots, drones, and even GTA V. Odyssey claims top scores on physics benchmarks, though the methodology behind those results has limits. The article Odyssey-3 is a new generative world model that you can try for free appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists</p><p>Humans could become extinct by the year 2100 due to malicious use of AI or nuclear conflict, according to a new global risk assessment.</p><p>They top a list of 17 major threats to human health over the next 75 years, which also includes cuts to aid spending by wealthy countries, the climate crisis and childhood malnutrition.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardi

In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft's CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a "set of nested black boxes" whose advice and actions we simply accept or […]

In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.

Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?

<p>Five stories that feel like five answers to one important question: in a world where AI chatbots can help us through a breakup, listen like a friend, be a life coach, draft a difficult text message and do our work, where do we draw the line?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2026/oct/11/black-box-the-chatbots-the-line-ep-5-full-story-podcast">Continue reading...</a>

Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label filed a lawsuit in September claiming that DistroKid has created an "AI-slop pipeline." Artists are saying that […]

OpenAI has documented new cases of misaligned model behavior. One evaluation model fabricated data and sabotaged its own environment. Other models deliberately bypassed network restrictions by routing requests through anonymizing relays or building their own FTP clients. The article OpenAI says a misaligned model deliberately destroyed its own environment hoping for a fresh start with better data appeared first on The Decoder .

With Decision-1, Microsoft enters the growing decision model space. Built on Qwen3.5-9B and optimized for fast classification and routing, it hits 83.5 percent accuracy with 85 ms latency across 36 benchmarks, according to the company's own tests. The article Microsoft's Decision-1 model enters the fast-growing AI decision model race appeared first on The Decoder .

After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed "unintended model actions," including submitting a false tip regarding an unsolved murder, that led to the decision. Although the impact of these behaviors was minimal […]

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

OpenAI published more than 700 AI-generated manuscripts claiming solutions to open math problems. A math blog then collected over 100 responses from researchers, ranging from fascination with new ideas to existential fears and grief over a lost way of working. Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin wrote, "I am paralysed." The article "How much beauty have we lost?" Mathematicians react with shock and disgust as OpenAI bulldozes their field appeared first on The Decoder .

Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.

Andreessen Horowitz tracks actual US consumer spending for the first time in its latest Top 100 AI list. Nearly half of US consumers use AI, but only 4.5 percent pay for a subscription. The top one percent of payers spend about $900 a month, mostly on professional tools for development and automation. The article Few people pay for AI, but those who do spend big appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field</p><p>The UK must not become dependent on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice and must develop its own versions of the technology, according to the head of the Alan Turing Institute.</p><p>The country needs a stronger domestic position in AI in response to the US and China’s runaway leadership in the field, with “national resilience” a key focus for ATI said

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One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.

An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as […]

The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators.

<p>Company, which grown rapidly in recent years, has been under scrutiny as privacy concerns grow</p><p>Flock Safety plans to shed about 18% of its employees, people with direct ⁠knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the maker of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai">AI</a>-powered <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/surveillance">surveillance</a> cameras and license-plate readers faces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/25/flor

Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the […]

New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.

Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show "tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the […]

Anthropic has launched "Cyber Mission," a program to protect critical infrastructure and open-source software from cyberattacks. Partners like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks will help secure power grids and water systems, while a free AI scanner automatically checks open-source projects for vulnerabilities with an expected accuracy above 90 percent. The article Anthropic launches a free AI scanner for open-source projects appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI's annualized revenue rate sits at about $50 billion, well below the initially reported $70 billion figure that was based on a different accounting method. The correction sent chip stocks sliding. Meanwhile, OpenAI is negotiating at least $30 billion in fresh capital at a $1.4 trillion valuation. The article OpenAI revenue keeps surging as company seeks $30 billion in fresh capital appeared first on The Decoder .

Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access […]

<p>Commercials once launched careers from Ridley Scott to Guy Ritchie, now automated production is cutting costs – and the chance to learn by doing</p><p>When Ridley Scott was awarded the UK’s highest accolade for a glittering career directing films from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/may/31/1">Alien and Blade Runner to Gladiator and The Martian</a>, he reminded those attending the Bafta event eight years ago that making commercials had been his <a href="https://www.bafta.org/

OpenAI fired three safety researchers who helped investigate the Hugging Face hack. In an open letter, they warn that the firings are scaring remaining staff and eroding safety culture. OpenAI claims they violated policies but won't say how. The article OpenAI's safety crisis keeps getting worse and the company keeps making it worse appeared first on The Decoder .