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<p>I can’t be delighted by something produced with generative AI. Give me books written by complicated people, drawings by sweet idiots, songs by those who feel</p><p>Generative AI has gone too far. Many have said it, but I need to add my human voice to the cacophony.</p><p>There are many reasons I dislike the growing use of generative AI. It is environmentally disastrous, necessitating massive, water-guzzling datacentres. In a world where many people do not have access to clean water and where

<p>AI companies want to capture the value created by entire industries. That concentration of wealth and power is society’s greatest risk</p><p>Opposition to AI datacenters has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one that – surprisingly – doesn’t <a href="https://grist.org/politics/data-center-ai-bipartisan-backlash/">fall</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/liberals-conservatives-data-centers.html">along</a> party lines. We applaud people coming together for const

State agency's delay could mean free robotaxi rides in company’s new Ojai vehicle for a few months.

OpenAI reviewed SWE-Bench Pro, a widely used test for measuring AI models' programming skills, and found roughly 30 percent of its tasks are broken. The company is pulling its earlier endorsement of the benchmark. The article OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken appeared first on The Decoder .

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.

Databricks benchmarked coding agents on its own multi-million-line codebase and found that the Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 matched Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at $1.28 per task versus $1.94. The company plans to roll it out as a daily coding workhorse. Its broader takeaway: no single provider dominates, and companies should build their own benchmarks instead of relying on public ones. The article Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at

Thousands of new fossil-fuel power sources are quietly firing up across the state to power the AI boom, thanks to a regulatory loophole, leaving residents feeling blindsided.

NHTSA administrator Jonathan Morris called reports that self-driving cars had driven into emergency scenes and blocked ambulances and firefighters “unacceptable.”

Several NHS hospitals are preparing to use an AI-powered blood test to help assess women referred for possible womb cancer before invasive checks are carried out. According to The Guardian, around 90,000 postmenopausal women in England are referred by GPs each year for checks after experiencing heavy bleeding. About 10,000 women are diagnosed with womb […] The post NHS AI blood test could reduce invasive womb cancer checks appeared first on AI News .

At the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, an OpenAI system crushed all human competitors in an exhibition match, solving all five problems in the Algorithm Division. Two of those problems were rated exceptionally difficult by observers. The article OpenAI's AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest appeared first on The Decoder .

A single wording mistake cost the government millions. Now Estonia is using AI to spot legal errors before they become law—and to automate more of the state.

AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are betting on AI, health tech, and startups. Mohamed Salah is taking a more traditional route beyond football.

Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.

Experiments in using AI to build AI show that the future doesn’t just belong to the frontier labs.

xAI releases Grok 4.5, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. In coding benchmarks, the model trails Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 but needs 4.2 times fewer tokens than Opus 4.8. At $2 per million input tokens, it costs a fraction of the competition. EU availability is expected in mid-July. The article Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared to Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 that benchmark gaps may not matter much appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI's GPT-Live can listen and speak at the same time using a full-duplex architecture. Complex questions get handed off to GPT-5.5 in the background, which drastically improves response quality. GPT-Live-1 is available now for paying ChatGPT users, with a mini version for free accounts. API access is coming soon. The article ChatGPT can now listen and talk at the same time, making AI conversations seem more human appeared first on The Decoder .

Mistral is entering the robotics market with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that guides robots through unknown environments using only a single RGB camera. Trained in simulation and refined with reinforcement learning (CISPO), it hits 76.6 percent on the R2R-CE benchmark. Mistral hasn't said when the model will be available. The article Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that steers robots using just one camera appeared first on The Decoder .

Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

Android Bench is evolving, and developers can help guide that process.

Anthropic recommends using the expensive Claude Fable 5 mainly as a planner for smaller models instead of running it on every task. Combined with Sonnet 5 in the "Advisor" pattern, this setup hits 92 percent of Fable 5's solo performance at 63 percent of the cost. The article Anthropic's fix for Fable 5's high cost is turning it into a manager that delegates to Sonnet 5 appeared first on The Decoder .

Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 tops all six new industry-specific performance indices from Artificial Analysis, covering finance, law, and medicine. But that lead comes at a steep cost. In the Strategy & Ops Index, a single task runs $3.48 with Fable 5, more than a hundred times what DeepSeek V4 Pro charges at $0.03. The score difference is just 12 points. The article Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 dominates new industry benchmarks at a steep premium appeared first on The Decoder .

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.

The robotaxi stopped, called 911, and waited for the San Mateo Police to show up.

<p>They suck up energy and water, and blast out heat. Just who is better off from all this investment – aside from tech bros?</p><p>The two great existential threats of our time – the climate crisis and AI – come hurtling together in the explosion of datacentres across Australia and around the world.</p><p>You can hardly avoid hearing about them these days, either with awed reverence of the promised benefits to humankind or with fear and anger given the implications for the climate, inflation, j

Google Deepmind is adding four new features to Managed Agents in the Gemini API. Agents can now run asynchronously in the background, connect directly to remote MCP servers, use custom functions alongside sandbox tools, and refresh credentials without losing state. The article Google Deepmind adds background execution and MCP support to Gemini API managed agents appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>Meta said it was working with officials to be a ‘good neighbor’ and drinking water supplies were not affected</p><p>Officials in Wyoming said a contractor for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/mark-zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a>’s tech company, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/meta">Meta</a>, flushed bacteria-contaminated water into public sewers during construction of a controversial new AI <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datacenters--us-">datacente

<p>Political campaigns are increasingly deploying AI and deepfakes to further their messaging, and the scale of spread has experts concerned </p><p>From the comfort of his bed, Jonathan Rinaldi, a political candidate for a city council seat in Queens, New York, tinkered away on his iPhone, prompting an artificial intelligence chatbot to mock up fake news hits and endorsements he had never received.</p><p>During the campaign last October, Rinaldi shared one of those stories, made to appear real w

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]

Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters. MiniMax plans to release the model as open source. The article Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year appeared first on The Decoder .

Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.

Meta is testing a prototype of AI-powered headsets with "Super Sensing" that use a camera and microphone to record every moment of the wearer's life. The article Meta tests always-on AI glasses that capture your entire day appeared first on The Decoder .

Meta's Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Image, its first image generation model. Like OpenAI's GPT Image 2, it works as an agent, using tools like code execution and web search to refine its own results. A controversial @-mention feature lets users generate images of other people using their public Instagram photos without consent. The opt-out model is likely to collide with the GDPR and the EU AI Act. The article Muse Image is technically impressive, but Meta's use of Instagram photos raises q

A new book claims that Mystery, who teaches awkward men how to hit on women, had sex and smoked weed with an AI chatbot named Miss Shira Always.

<p>I can’t blame my patients for turning to its straightforward assessments. But it has real risks – and care may require human messiness</p><p>“Chat told me I should break up with him.”</p><p>I instructed my face to remain therapist-neutral, but I must have smirked. The truth is, I was annoyed. We had been discussing the viability of this relationship for weeks, and in an instant AI had brought the answer. “How do you feel about it?” She said this had been her gut feeling all along. The followi

<p>Those with high levels of vocational training, including tradespeople, are least exposed to AI displacement, according to government review</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>Artificial intelligence has yet to cause widespread job losse