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.
<p>Mayor’s office grants extra 12 months to run pilot while London force procures long-term supplier</p><p>The Metropolitan police have been granted a 12-month extension to a pilot project with the spy-tech firm Palantir while the force carries out a procurement process.</p><p>The development comes weeks after the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palantir">blocked a £50m deal</a> between the
The Rocco isn’t on Amazon, but its rare sale knocks up to $400 off a fridge that can track your drinks and make any room look cooler. Save through July 5.
Indie movie fans are upset about Google DeepMind’s $75 million investment in the studio, which comes as AI companies are deepening their influence in Hollywood.
The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.
<p>Spending on government contracts with tech firms that use AI-powered tools to track immigrants has soared to record levels under Trump 2.0, report says</p><p>A new report sheds light on the unprecedented growth of the US government’s immigration surveillance arsenal, revealing fresh details about how spending on technology and AI tools to find and track migrants has soared to record levels during Donald Trump’s second term.</p><p>The report, released this week,<strong> </strong>analyzed US Im
OpenAI is updating GPT-5.5 Instant, its most-used ChatGPT model. The update targets conversation quality, with better intent recognition, improved context across multiple turns, and more reliable handling of complex, multi-condition prompts. The article OpenAI says ChatGPT Instant now better understands what users actually want appeared first on The Decoder .
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI for "spellcheck" in an amendment summary for a major defense bill, but denies it was used for the bill text itself and says "NO Legislation is ever drafted with AI." Luna issued the response after accounts on X began sharing screenshots of an amendment summary […]
