For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.
Norway is banning generative AI tools in elementary schools starting in late August. Students in grades 1 through 7 won't be allowed to use AI at all; secondary schools will permit it only under supervision. Prime Minister Stoere says children must first "learn to read, write, and do math." The article Norway bans generative AI tools in elementary schools to protect kids' basic learning skills appeared first on The Decoder .
Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google Deepmind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. Days earlier, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Weeks before that, AlphaGo researcher David Silver started his own company. Three of Google's most prominent AI minds, gone within months. The article Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder .
Amazon MGM Studios has dropped "Artificial," the nearly finished OpenAI film directed by Luca Guadagnino with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. Amazon struck a $50 billion partnership with OpenAI in February. According to an insider, both Altman and Musk come off poorly in the film. The case raises questions about how business ties in the tech industry can limit creative freedom. The article Amazon drops its OpenAI drama film after signing a $50 billion deal with Sam Altman's company appeared first
Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is […]
Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is […]
According to the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2026, 10 percent of people worldwide now use AI chatbots for news every week, up from 7 percent a year ago. Only 4 percent regularly click through to the original source. The article More people get news from AI chatbots, but trust remains low appeared first on The Decoder .
SAP and Google Cloud are deploying agentic commerce architecture to automate multi-agent marketing and retail operations at enterprise scale. SAP research indicates 78 percent of businesses consider AI essential for retaining customers in 2026. However, the same data reveals fewer than two in five companies share customer data across customer experience (37%) or CRM (39%) […] The post SAP and Google Cloud deploy agentic commerce architecture appeared first on AI News .
Even the best AI model fails at realistic knowledge work, fully solving just 3 percent of tasks. The article New benchmark exposes how badly AI struggles with real knowledge work appeared first on The Decoder .
Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
<p>Guardian readers in the US share concerns about how the SpaceX IPO and AI boom affect their retirement accounts</p><p>Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire last week after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/12/spacex-stock-price-ipo-spcx">SpaceX debuted on the stock market </a>with a valuation of $1.77tn.</p><p>Millions of Americans could soon become indirect investors in SpaceX and other emerging AI-focused companies as US markets increasingly shift toward AI-dri
<p>Depending on AI can also potentially decrease the ability to discern misinformation, research says</p><p>A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the latest research to find that relying too much on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, and potentially decrease our ability to discern misinformation for ourselves.</p><p>As AI tools are becoming more sophisticated and accessible, manipulated images and misleading headlines are becoming more common. AI can be part
Apple’s fall macOS release will let you build Shortcuts by typing what you want to happen. But Claude Code and Codex users don’t have to wait.
OpenAI researchers show that reinforcement learning on desired behavioral traits like truthfulness and corrigibility works across domains. Training on health data also improved deception detection, and the model scored better on 44 out of 53 benchmarks. The approach differs from Anthropic's constitution-based method. The article OpenAI researchers show small doses of "beneficial trait" training make AI models broadly safer and harder to manipulate appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>California first lady’s Miss Representation: Rise Up studies the backlash against women in the era of algorithms and deepfakes</p><p>Life moves pretty fast. It is Monday lunchtime when Jennifer Siebel Newsom drops into the Guardian’s office in Washington, just a couple of blocks from the White House, for an interview to promote her new film. Less than two hours later her husband, the California governor, Gavin Newsom, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/15/gavin-newsom-doj-i
Built around digital twin technology and customer-dedicated AI models, Cumulo answers the recent announcement by GCHQ for AI Cyber Shield, enabling early identification of threats and vulnerabilities before incidents occur Abingdon, U.K., 19 June, – SOC-as-a-service provider, e2e-assure, today announced the launch of the updated Cumulo, the U.K.’s only sovereign, AI-first, IT/OT connected SOC platform, designed to help organisations defend […] The post e2e-assure introduces Cumulo, the U.K.’s on
Google is appealing the ruling by Germany's Munich Regional Court, which held the company directly liable for inaccurate AI search results. The AI had falsely linked two Munich-based publishers to fraud schemes. Google calls them "minor errors," but the court saw it differently. The article Google appeals ruling that made it directly liable for AI-generated search overview content appeared first on The Decoder .
Two former OpenAI employees have built a website called "In the Weights" that reveals which people AI models can recall purely from their training data. A strength score of up to 996 shows how deeply a person is embedded, with Mozart, Shakespeare, and Taylor Swift topping the list. The article Website "In the Weights" shows whether AI models know who you are appeared first on The Decoder .
There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.
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DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.
Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.
The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be comprised of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video development.
On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.
OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT's healthcare capabilities with GPT-5.5 Instant. In the company's own comparative tests, the model now outscores answers written by doctors in accuracy, clarity, and completeness. The error rate for health-related statements has dropped by 71 percent, according to OpenAI. The article ChatGPT's new health upgrade beats doctor-written answers, OpenAI says appeared first on The Decoder .
Claude Code can now turn work results into interactive web pages called "artifacts" and share them with your team. The pages pull from the full session context, update automatically when something changes, and keep a version history. The article Anthropic brings Artifacts to Claude Code, letting teams share live pages from coding sessions appeared first on The Decoder .
SK Telecom had access to Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos through the company's partner program Project Glasswing until the White House stepped in. US officials saw ties between the South Korean conglomerate and China. The article Alleged China ties at SK Telecom alarmed US officials and triggered Anthropic crisis appeared first on The Decoder .
Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents as potential insider threats. The company's new "AI Control Roadmap" ties security measures to measurable AI capabilities, and an analysis of one million coding tasks shows most problems stem from overzealous agents, not malicious intent. Deepmind warns the window for global security standards is closing fast. The article Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents like rogue employees with office keys appeared first on The Decoder .
Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund.
Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same. Kē offers […]
Computer vision deployments are driving retail productivity gains as operators automate physical shelf tracking to protect eroding margins. This hardware deployment directly addresses the persistent in-store execution failures currently costing the industry billions. A study authored by Coresight Research – in partnership with technology providers Simbe and RELEX Solutions – calculates the exact cost of […] The post Computer vision deployments drive retail productivity gains appeared first on AI
The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.
Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
Two new studies published in Nature show that specialized AI systems diagnose diseases and make treatment decisions as well as physicians in simulated patient cases, sometimes even better. Both systems run on base models that are already outdated. The article AI systems rival doctors in new Nature studies, but one result suggests the tech won't age well appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how far AI can go</p><p>In Marc Isaacs’ latest film, the subversive documentary maker reveals that an AI research laboratory recently licensed his entire body of work. That’s a quarter-century of droll, deadpan studies of ordinary life in Britain – from the poetic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJNAvyLCTik">L
According to Yann LeCun, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are heading for a "big bubble explosion": Their operations are effectively subsidized by investors, and operating costs aren't dropping fast enough, he says. LeCun's criticism isn't entirely selfless: his own startup, AMI Labs, raised $1 billion for an alternative approach to AI. The article Yann LeCun warns AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic face a "big bubble explosion" appeared first on The Decoder .
Rumors about Midjourney hardware have circulated for years, but nobody saw this coming. The AI image startup is building a full-body ultrasound scanner and opening its own spa in San Francisco to house it. The article Midjourney, known for AI image generation, unveils a full-body ultrasound scanner and its own spa appeared first on The Decoder .
Adobe is rolling out its "creative agent" across its main Creative Cloud apps and third-party AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. Users describe what they want, and the software handles the multi-step work. The article Adobe adds AI agents to Photoshop, Premiere, and more Creative Cloud apps appeared first on The Decoder .
