The Five Eyes intelligence agencies warn: AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are only months away. That's according to the Guardian. The article Five Eyes intelligence alliance says frontier AI models could reshape offensive cyber ops in months appeared first on The Decoder .
To assess the competitive advantage of potential acquisition targets, Bain & Company uses Vibecoding to replicate their software. These AI replicas are already influencing specific purchasing decisions. The article Vibecoding is becoming a deal-breaker test for software acquisitions appeared first on The Decoder .
The company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI.
<p>AI-focused Super Pacs are spending heavily in midterms, and nearly half has gone to a single Manhattan district race</p><p>The artificial intelligence industry is spending heavily in the 2026 midterms, hoping to secure influence over the technology’s first generation of legislation – and New York City’s primary has emerged as the key battleground.</p><p>AI-focused Super Pacs have raised roughly $100m this cycle, of which $44m has been spent so far, in dozens of congressional races across the
<p>Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI model</p><p>Powerful AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, cyber intelligence agencies for the Five Eyes have warned in a rare joint statement, urging leaders to “act now”.</p><p>The surprising public intervention by signals agencies for Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada comes after the <a hr
<p>White-collar work is at risk across the board, including at elite consulting firms that used to be a pathway to the 1%</p><p>Consulting is a delicate contract: endure two challenging, formative years – and in return, get a golden ticket to anywhere. Firms like McKinsey tout themselves as the “<a href="https://fortune.com/2025/09/25/mckinsey-ceo-pipeline-fortune-500-global-500-consulting-ai/">CEO factory</a>”, and boast they’re “<a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/alumni/news-and-events/global-n
L’Oréal has announced a collaboration with OpenAI that will bring Maybelline New York’s virtual makeup try-on feature into ChatGPT. The announcement was made at VivaTech 2026. The partnership covers consumer-facing shopping tools, product discovery, advertising pilots, research, and internal content production. The collaboration also covers L’Oréal’s internal use of AI in research, formulation, content production, […] The post L’Oréal brings Maybelline virtual try-on to ChatGPT appeared first on
Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in South Korea and everyone in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. The article Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees in South Korea appeared first on The Decoder .
From fake tickets to cloned websites, AI is magnifying World Cup scams. Can fans distinguish between what’s real and what’s not?
Japanese AI startup Sakana AI is launching Fugu, a system that coordinates multiple AI models on the fly to compete with leaders like Anthropic's Fable 5. The approach also aims to cut dependence on any single AI provider. The article Sakana AI's Fugu orchestrates multiple LLMs to match Anthropic's Fable and Mythos benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>A vivid and entertaining polemic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire</p><p>As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt could tell you, AI is a hard sell these days. Last month, he tried talking up the AI revolution during a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/eric-schmidt-ai-university-commencement-speech-booed">commencement address</a> at the University of Arizona and was loudly booed by students about to enter an AI-ravaged job market. His discombob
A UC Berkeley study of more than 500,000 grades found that courses heavy on writing and coding saw grades jump after ChatGPT launched. The effect shows up mainly in homework, a sign that AI is replacing student work rather than improving learning. The article AI is inflating student grades, and the effect points to outsourced work, not better learning appeared first on The Decoder .
Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.
At a Stanford talk, Sam Altman defended LLM scaling and hit back at skeptics, saying a whole generation of researchers slowed the field by underestimating what scaling could do. He cited OpenAI's recent disproof of a mathematical conjecture as evidence. The article Sam Altman says a whole generation of researchers held AI back by underestimating what scaling could do appeared first on The Decoder .
At its summit in New York, AWS unveiled two new services. Continuum automatically detects, prioritizes, and fixes code vulnerabilities. Context builds a knowledge graph from corporate data to give AI agents the business context they need. Both tackle the same problem: agents that write code fast but get things wrong too often. The article AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>Investigation finds AI content that purports to show genuine customers, prompting calls for greater transparency</p><p>Brands promoting their products online are quietly deploying AI-generated influencers on social media, an investigation has found, prompting calls for greater transparency.</p><p>The findings suggest companies are increasingly turning to AI-generated content that purports to show genuine customer experiences while giving no obvious indication that the people featured are not
Eurocommerce, the trade association behind Amazon, H&M, and IKEA, wants AI-generated ads exempt from the EU AI Act's transparency rules. The argument: an AI-generated living room image used to sell a sofa isn't a deepfake. Zalando alone says 90 percent of the marketing content on its platform is already AI-generated. The article The EU doesn't really know what a deepfake is, and that's becoming a problem for retail appeared first on The Decoder .
Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
OpenAI has released the "Record & Replay" feature for its Codex app on macOS: users demonstrate a workflow once, Codex converts it into a reusable "skill," and then repeats it on its own. The feature isn't available yet in the EU, the UK, or Switzerland. The article OpenAI's Codex can now watch you work once and repeat the task forever appeared first on The Decoder .
NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran believes a potential AI crash would be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble because the industry is building massive amounts of debt-financed physical infrastructure rather than lightweight software. Even if AI succeeds, he sees a problem. The actual business model is to replace entire jobs, with unclear consequences for society. The article NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust appeared fir
<p>Exclusive: While recruits will increase headcount for now, broader adoption of AI could lead to jobs cuts in future</p><p>Lloyds Banking Group has launched an AI recruitment drive for 300 tech experts, weeks before its chief executive, Charlie Nunn, unveils a strategic plan for the 261-year old lender.</p><p>The bank said it intended the recruits to work on its use and development of agentic AI by September, referring to autonomous artificial intelligence models that can plan and execute task
<p>We asked people in the US about their customer service battles and hundreds responded on the financial and emotional costs</p><p>Guardian readers from across the US wrote in to tell us about their battles with big companies, and the time, expense and emotional toll exacted by businesses they say are prioritizing the bottom line over all else.</p><p>The top takeaway: people really, really don’t like AI customer service.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/20/guardian-read
The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.
<p>Does a thought-experiment about US ascendancy in the technology say as much about AI jitters as it does about the reality?</p><p>It’s 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces.</p><p>The US ploughed vast sums into datacentres and the EU did not. China built robots and Europe did not. American companies “restructured” their workflows around AI and fired people, while EU workers went on long lunch breaks and handed over administrative tasks to the AI model Claude.</p> <a hr
Seven AI agents work together like a newsroom. The "Data Journalist Agent" from Oxford and Stanford turns a CSV file into a finished interactive article with graphics, web research, and verifiable source links for 93 percent of all statements. In a reader study, 74 percent preferred the agent's output over the human original. But against elaborately crafted long-form reports, the agent managed a tie. The article Data2Story turns a CSV file into a verified interactive news article using seven AI
<p>Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore</p><p>The prominent literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth short story prize after one of this year’s winners drew widespread accusations of AI use.</p><p>The magazine said it would no longer be involved in “external publishing partnerships” in which it had no editorial control.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026
OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT's scheduling feature. A new "Scheduled" page in the sidebar puts all active tasks in one place, letting users view, pause, edit, or delete them. Research tasks search the web and connected apps, sending alerts only when something actually changes. The previous "Pulse" feature is being retired. The article ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls appeared first on The Decoder .
In the first quarter of 2026, OpenAI pulled in $5.7 billion in revenue and burned through about $3.7 billion, both figures tripled year over year. Stock-based compensation alone ate up over $2.3 billion. With $73 billion in reserves, OpenAI doesn't need fresh capital right now, but a price war with Anthropic could change that fast. The article OpenAI tripled revenue to $5.7 billion in Q1 but burned through $3.7 billion to get there appeared first on The Decoder .
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
