Google shipped an update to its open AI model Gemma 4 that speeds up performance on Nvidia Hopper GPUs, fixes tool calling bugs, and addresses problems with truncated responses. The article Gemma 4 gets a stealth update that fixes tool calling bugs and truncated responses under the same name appeared first on The Decoder .
Neko Health has raised $700 million to expand its AI body scans in the United States, starting with a clinic in New York. The company’s preventive screening service combines medical imaging, blood tests, proprietary sensors, and clinician review. The Series C round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners. Existing […] The post Neko Health raises $700 million to expand AI body scans in the US appeared first on AI News .
<p>Uncrewed systems are the future for armed forces and the Netherlands is leading the way ‘to keep people out of danger zones’</p><p>On each side of the target ship, a black vessel keeps a watchful distance. Defender 1 and Defender 2 are the eyes and ears of the navy – but they have nobody onboard, and their paths are controlled by a computer system.</p><p>This is the future of the Royal Netherlands Navy, according to Capt Sjoerd Feenstra, head of the expertise centre for unmanned systems. He i
<p>Or will they forge a path of their own?</p><ul><li><p>See more of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/fiona-katauskas">Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here</a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jul/16/will-the-new-ai-roadmap-keep-the-tech-giants-in-line">Continue reading...</a>
<p>When the PM talks about new laws applying to the ‘next generation of large-scale datacentres’ what does he mean?</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/16/albaneses-ai-blueprint-sparks-calls-for-datacentre-moratorium-until-new-regulations-in-place">Albanese’s AI blueprint sparks calls for datacentre moratorium until new regulations in place</a></p></li></ul><p>Expectations were high as the prime minister took the stage at the University of Sydney on Wednesd
Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agents” are still chatbot wrappers, the control plane enterprises expect is deliberately hybrid to avoid lock-in, and real-time fiscal control over token burn remains the exception. This wave of VentureBeat
The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood "knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM," breaching the […]
OpenAI's internal GPT-Red model finds successful attacks in 84 percent of test scenarios through self-play training. Human red teamers manage just 13 percent. The results feed directly into hardening models like GPT-5.6 Sol. The article OpenAI is now using AI to attack its own AI, and it's working better than humans ever did appeared first on The Decoder .
Babies are tremendous learning machines, and key advances for AI may soon be found in the architecture of their little brains.
<p>AI-friendly president shared a post saying governor Kathy Hochul should scrap the one-year policy ‘IMMEDIATELY’</p><p>Donald Trump railed against the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, for pausing the construction of large new datacenters, the resource-intensive facilities that power artificial intelligence.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</a> became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday, when Hochul signed an executive orde
Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.
A University of Pennsylvania statistics professor used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to disprove a central open conjecture about the Benjamini-Hochberg method in roughly 90 minutes. The predecessor model, GPT-5.5, couldn't find a solution even after 20 hours. The answer combines known methods in a new way, keeping the bigger question alive: can AI produce genuinely new knowledge, or does it just recombine what it already learned? The article GPT-5.6 Sol reportedly disproves a 30-year-old statistics c
The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.
Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.
The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.
OpenAI is finally releasing some hardware. No, it isn't the mysterious AI-powered device the company is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive, a project already tangled up in a messy lawsuit. Instead, it's a product designed to be used with its coding platform, Codex. The device, a square-shaped block of buttons called Codex Micro, […]
PrismML has compressed a 27-billion-parameter AI model to under 4 GB, small enough to run on an iPhone. In the company's own benchmarks, the smallest version keeps 90 percent of the original performance, with math and coding scores barely affected. Apple is reportedly already testing the compression technology, which could help it close the gap in on-device AI. The article Bonsai 27B is a full open reasoning model that fits on an iPhone appeared first on The Decoder .
Spotify is expanding its AI voice interface. Premium subscribers can now talk to or text the service directly inside the app. The article Spotify bets Premium subscribers want to chat with their music player appeared first on The Decoder .
Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to Apple’s operating systems, marking a major expansion of the company’s generative AI platform into one of its most important markets.
<p>Challenges of regulating social media or stopping hate speech show these firms can set their own terms and prices for countries like Australia</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Anthony Albanese took a trip back in time during his much
<p>Star Wars director calls AI technology ‘the future’ of film-making and says ‘there’s nothing you can do about it’</p><p>The Star Wars director, George Lucas, has added his voice to the growing chorus of film-makers receptive to the rising use of AI tools in moviemaking.</p><p>Speaking in an interview with <a href="https://a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/confessions/the-last-picture-show-a-conversation-with-george-lucas/">A Rabbit’s Foot</a>, Lucas, 82, said: “Artificial intelligence means it’s mu
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as for a blood test.
But with great power comes a great price.
<p>For months, artists and activists have been calling on the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, to act on the AI boom as datacentres pop up around the country. Today he made a major speech at the University of Sydney addressing copyright, the regulation of datacentres and the future of AI in Australia</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/15/office-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-copyright-australia-government">'Not up for grabs': Albanese establishes AI office and
Companies’ increasing reliance on AI chatbots isn’t making the customer service experience smarter. It’s just making it more infuriating.
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OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.
Since early June, OpenAI's coding tool Codex encrypts the instructions a main agent passes to its subagents. Developers can no longer track how tasks get delegated internally. For the larger GPT-5.6 variants Sol and Terra, the encryption is mandatory. The article OpenAI's Codex now encrypts instructions between AI agents, leaving developers blind to internal delegation appeared first on The Decoder .
Nokia’s AI-RAN platform arrived on July 15 with a claim worth examining: that it is the industry’s first. The vendor says the platform, built on its anyRAN software and NVIDIA’s Aerial system, will let operators pull far more capacity from the spectrum they already own, and it has framed the launch as one of the most significant […] The post Nokia’s AI-RAN platform: a radio comeback that runs on NVIDIA appeared first on AI News .
Former and current Meta employees are suing the company in a California federal court over AI-driven mass layoffs. Meta allegedly used internal AI systems to generate the layoff lists when it cut 8,000 workers, disproportionately targeting employees with disabilities or on parental leave. The article Meta employees sue over layoffs they say were driven by discriminatory AI selection systems appeared first on The Decoder .
OpenAI plans to enter hardware with a portable, screenless smart speaker. Equipped with a camera, sensors, and moving mechanical parts, the device is designed as an AI companion that feels "alive." But Apple's trade secrets lawsuit involving OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan could delay its planned 2027 launch. The article OpenAI's first hardware product is a screenless AI speaker designed to feel alive appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>PM lays out plan for datacentre development and rejects prospect tech companies will be given free use of Australian data</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jul/15/australia-news-live-ceo-pay-anthony-albanese-palestine-gaza-ai-artificial-intelligence-datacentres-copyright-royal-commission-antisemitism-labor-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CM
<p>Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane</p><p>For centuries, humans have been fascinated by the prospect of creating artificial beings in our own image. Of developing synthetic minds and artificial bodies that not only think but also feel, and are both intelligent and conscious. For the vast majority of this time, this prospect seemed very distant; a topic for science fiction and phi
<p>Coherent decision-making and internal accountability are critical to meeting this manic moment</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/anthony-albanese-promises-fast-track-approvals-for-datacentres-to-shore-up-ai-investment">Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment</a></p></li></ul><p>The University of Sydney was the natural setting for Anthony Albanese to lay out his vision for how Australia should confront the
<p>Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs</p><p>Dozens of Meta employees have sued the social media company over claims that it used artificial intelligence tools to tag workers for mass layoffs. The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation.</p><p>The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in the northern district of C
A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.
<p>Andrew Bailey warns that US will not be able to achieve its ambitions alone</p><p>The Bank of England governor has called for international cooperation to tackle growing AI threats, warning that the US and Trump administration would not be able to achieve their ambitions alone.</p><p>Andrew Bailey’s comments come weeks after the US president, Donald Trump, temporarily banned foreigners from using Anthropic’s powerful Claude Mythos model.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
