Less than 24 hours after news broke that OpenAI would stagger its next model release at the request of the Trump administration, that model, GPT-5.6, is here. On Friday, the company unveiled the limited preview of its new GPT 5.6 model suite: Sol, the flagship; Terra, a medium-tier model for "high-volume work"; and Luna, a […]
AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.
AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek after AI costs exceeded personnel costs. CEO Flo Crivello calls it "a matter of survival for the business." The article AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek, saving millions as cost pressure mounts on Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder .
It's a stretch to think that the continent can build a top-tier model, but it has an advantage: Donald Trump.
<p>Sam Altman announces limited preview of GPT 5.6 in move that echoes launch of Anthropic’s Mythos</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/jun/26/uk-food-drink-exports-fall-us-tariffs-brexit-trade-friction-stock-market-ftse-pound-oil-latest-news-updates">Business live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>OpenAI is staggering the release of its latest AI model after a request from the US government, in a move echoing the launch of Anthropic’s Mythos product.</p><p>S
Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out of single-supplier risk. The goal is less of a […]
SAP aligns fragmented commerce data structures to enable operational AI personalisation at the execution layer. Enterprise leadership routinely establishes objectives to anticipate customer requirements and deliver relevant interactions across digital touchpoints. However, the actual infrastructure running inside these enterprises fails to support systematic execution at the required volume. Recommendation engines display generic product listings because […] The post SAP aligns commerce data for
Advisors are telling OpenAI to hold off on going public until next year. The triggers: volatile tech markets and SpaceX's weak stock performance after its record IPO. SoftBank, one of OpenAI's biggest backers, lost 13 percent in a single day. The article Altman won't go public for less than $1 trillion, so OpenAI's IPO may slip to 2027 appeared first on The Decoder .
"Returns on intuition": Why Anthropic no longer needs junior engineers and warns of an economic shock. The article Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow appeared first on The Decoder .
About twenty tech companies, AI labs, and banks are joining forces through Akrites to fix vulnerabilities in critical open-source software before AI tools can exploit them. The article Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants launch Akrites to fix open-source flaws before AI-powered attacks hit appeared first on The Decoder .
At the request of the U.S. government, OpenAI will initially make its new GPT-5.6 model available only to select partners, with access approved on a "customer by customer" basis. CEO Sam Altman says this isn't a "preferred long term model." After the forced takedown of Anthropic's Fable, AI labs are afraid of a de facto licensing regime for AI models. The article OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis" appeared first on The Decoder .
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Anthropic's critics argue it's rapidly accumulating power. The company says that's what responsible AI development looks like.
Amazon-owned MGM Studios’ decision to drop the OpenAI movie is just part of AI and film industries becoming increasingly intertwined. On Uncanny Valley, we take a look at where this is all headed.
Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.
Notion is "going all in on using agents to run your inbox."
It took 20 years, but the Finance app arrives just in time to be packed full of AI.
Alibaba allegedly used 25,000 accounts to mine Claude over 28.8 million exchanges.
Did Full Self-Driving (Supervised), Tesla’s driver assistance feature, play a role in a woman’s death?
General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.
Un0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.
A Washington Post investigation shows that most major AI chatbots still skew left on political questions. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave exclusively left-leaning arguments 80 percent of the time, and even Musk's Grok, marketed as anti-"woke," leaned left more often than not. The one outlier: Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro presented both sides 93 percent of the time. The article Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception appeared first on The Decoder .
You don’t need to cut your own grass anymore. Most of the best robot mowers I’ve tested are on sale for Prime Day.
Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.
Diffusion models generate tens of thousands of plausible weather events where historical data doesn't exist. Insurers are hoping for more precise risk assessments. Researchers warn about hallucinations. The article Insurers turn to generative AI for catastrophe modeling, but hallucinations and sales logic could get in the way appeared first on The Decoder .
Two former xAI employees estimate that porn accounts for well over half of all Grok traffic. xAI is leaning into it, while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google won't touch adult content. The article Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content appeared first on The Decoder .
Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.
The Authors Guild tested five AI detectors on human-written texts. Pangram and Grammarly correctly identified all of them, while Sidekicker and ZeroGPT flagged human-written articles as AI-generated. But the Guild also warns of a paradox: professionally written texts look statistically similar to AI output because language models were trained on exactly that kind of writing. The article Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single
This year, FIFA is providing an AI agent that any team can use. Is it enough to level the playing field or will future winners be determined by which team can afford the best tools?
By 2025, Meta will have already replaced about half of all human moderation requests with large language models and aims to increase that percentage to over 90 percent for certain types of content by the end of the year. The article Meta employees warn AI moderation rollout is too fast appeared first on The Decoder .
Google appears to be hemorrhaging key AI researchers to competitors. The article Google keeps losing top AI researchers to rivals appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution</p><p>The proliferation of datacentres and AI is increasingly at the forefront of environmental litigation around the world, from the US and UK to Chile to Ireland, a report has found.</p><p>In an analysis of about 3,600 climate-related lawsuits filed since 2015, the <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/global-trends-in-climate-change-litigation-2026-snapshot">latest annual
IBM’s nanostack transistors could boost chip performance or energy efficiency.
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
Google has integrated "Computer Use" directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model operate computers, browsers, and mobile devices on its own. On the OSWorld benchmark, it scores 78.4, putting it on par with GPT-5.5. Developers can use the Gemini API to build agents for software testing or office automation. The article Google bakes computer control directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model see and operate your screen appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>Content creation and online safety among new topics for 14- to 18-year-olds – but tweaks may be needed when social media ban comes in</p><p>Scouts are introducing badges in content creation, digital communication and online safety after consulting nearly 3,000 teenagers who said they wanted skills to help them navigate a world increasingly shaped by AI, social media and digital technology.</p><p>The new Explorer Scout badges, part of the Scout movement’s first major overhaul in almost 25 year
OpenAI’s financial trajectory hinges heavily on infrastructure costs, a reality that drove the development of the new custom OpenAI Jalapeño chip. Developed in collaboration with Broadcom, the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) represents a direct attempt to mitigate the heavy capital expenditure associated with third-party hardware. While Nvidia currently commands an estimated 75% profit margin on […] The post The math behind the OpenAI Jalapeño chip appeared first on AI News .
As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now put off limits.
Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models.
The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.
