Big Tech
AirTag reveals how Amazon destroys rare books for AI training
Amazon buys printed books in bulk, scans them for AI training data, and destroys them in the process.
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Aug 17, 2026·1 min read
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Big Tech
Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the site instead to move its user up the waitlist
An Australian user just wanted a spot in a class.
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Aug 10, 2026·1 min read
Big Tech
Qwen3.8 Max catches Claude Opus 4.8 but Kimi K3 still scores higher for 25 percent less
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max scores 56 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a 10-point jump over Qwen3.7 Max (46).
The Decoder
Aug 06, 2026·1 min read
Big Tech
Anthropic locks in $10 billion of compute from Volta, a cloud startup that didn't exist six months ago
Anthropic is locking in $10 billion worth of computing capacity from Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud startup that's only a few months old.
The Decoder
Aug 04, 2026·1 min read
Big Tech
Unicorn, pelican, Middle-earth: OpenAI co-founder Karpathy is looking for the next AI vibe test
One paragraph of "Lord of the Rings" in, 5,500 lines of code out.
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Aug 03, 2026·1 min read
AI Tools
Linus Torvalds Backs AI Tools in Linux Kernel Development
Linus Torvalds supports AI tools in Linux kernel development, criticizing those opposed to their use.
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Jul 17, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Kimi Launches K3 Multimodal Model, Rivals GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5
Kimi's K3 model has 2.8 trillion parameters, one million tokens of context, and rivals Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol.
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Jul 16, 2026·1 min read
Big Tech
Google Rebrands NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook, Expands Search App Integrations
Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, integrating it deeper into its ecosystem with new coding features and third-party search app connections.
The Decoder
Jul 16, 2026·1 min read
Big Tech
Germany regulates Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity under media law
German regulators rule AI Overviews as Google's own content, not neutral search results, crowding out regular links.
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Jul 16, 2026·1 min read
AI Tools
OpenAI Unveils Codex Micro, a Hardware Controller for AI Agents
OpenAI and Work Louder introduce Codex Micro, a compact controller for managing AI agents with joysticks and a rotary dial.
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Jul 16, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
Sakana AI integrates Nvidia Nemotron models into Fugu orchestrator
Sakana AI combines Nvidia's Nemotron models with its Fugu orchestrator to dynamically merge language models for specific tasks.
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Jul 16, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
OpenAI uses AI to attack its own AI, achieving higher success rates than humans
OpenAI's GPT-Red model finds successful attacks in 84% of test scenarios through self-play training, surpassing human performance.
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Jul 15, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
GPT-5.6 Sol disproves 30-year-old statistics conjecture in 90 minutes
University of Pennsylvania professor uses GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to disprove Benjamini-Hochberg method conjecture in 90 minutes.
The Decoder
Jul 15, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Spotify Expands AI Voice Interface for Premium Subscribers
Spotify's AI voice interface now allows Premium subscribers to chat with the service directly inside the app.
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Jul 15, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
OpenAI's Codex Encrypts Internal AI Instructions
OpenAI's Codex tool now encrypts instructions between AI agents, limiting developer visibility into internal task delegation.
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Jul 15, 2026·1 min read
AI Tools
Anthropic launches free AI tool for US teachers, pledges not to use student data for model training
Anthropic offers Claude for Teachers, a free AI tool for verified US K-12 educators, with features for lesson planning and student data analysis.
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Jul 14, 2026·1 min read
AI Startups
Turing Award winner Rich Sutton launches Oak Lab for autonomous AI agents
Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner, launches Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn continuously from their environment.
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Jul 13, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Google's SensorFM transforms wearable data into health intelligence
Google Research's SensorFM uses over a trillion minutes of wearable data to create a general-purpose health intelligence layer.
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Jul 13, 2026·1 min read
AI Startups
Anthropic extends free access to Claude Fable 5 for subscribers
Anthropic keeps Claude Fable 5 in subscription plans through July 19, 2026, amid pricing pressure from OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol.
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Jul 13, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
LinkedIn leads in AI-generated long-form posts
One in four longer social media posts is entirely AI-generated, according to a Pangram analysis.
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Jul 12, 2026·1 min read
Big Tech
S&P Global downgrades Oracle's credit rating due to OpenAI risk
S&P Global cuts Oracle's credit rating to 'BBB-', citing OpenAI as a key credit risk.
The Decoder
Jul 12, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Meta Scraps Controversial AI Image Feature
Meta pulls Muse Image feature that generated AI photos of Instagram users without consent.
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Jul 12, 2026·1 min read
Productivity
Anthropic reveals most common use case for Claude Cowork
Anthropic analyzed 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions from over 600,000 organizations.
The Decoder
Jul 12, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
OpenAI CEO Altman now says AI is net job-creating
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says he's 'pretty sure' AI has created more jobs than it's eliminated.
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Jul 12, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
Brown professor sees drastic drop in grades after banning AI on exam
Brown University professor suspects students used AI to cheat on take-home exam, grades plummet when forced to take in-person test.
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Jul 12, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
AI agents achieve wins in Slay the Spire 2 with structured memory
Researchers replace growing chat logs with structured memory, enabling AI agents to win at Slay the Spire 2
The Decoder
Jul 12, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra solves 50-year-old math problem
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of Cycle Double Cover Conjecture in under an hour using 64 subagents.
The Decoder
Jul 11, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Terrorist groups exploit major AI chatbots for attack planning and weapons development
Boko Haram uses AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to plan attacks, build explosives, and maintain weapons, a Cambridge study finds.
The Decoder
Jul 11, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
China's Orca world model rivals specialized robotics systems without action labels
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence releases Orca, a world model predicting abstract world states, trained on 125,000 hours of video.
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Jul 11, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 outperforms GLM-5.2 in coding and costs slightly less
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 scored 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up eight points in three months.
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Jul 11, 2026·1 min read
AI Startups
OpenAI scrambles to fix ChatGPT Work UX and cost issues
OpenAI acknowledges significant issues with ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 Sol, including excessive compute usage and data deletion.
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Jul 11, 2026·1 min read
AI Tools
OpenAI discontinues Atlas browser, integrates features into ChatGPT
OpenAI kills its AI browser Atlas after eight months, merging features into ChatGPT's Chrome extension.
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Jul 10, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Grok 4.5 undercuts Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 on price despite benchmark gaps
xAI releases Grok 4.5, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs, with a significantly lower price point.
The Decoder
Jul 08, 2026·1 min read
Robotics
Mistral Enters Robotics with 8B Model Robostral Navigate
Mistral introduces Robostral Navigate, an 8B model guiding robots through unknown environments with a single RGB camera.
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Jul 08, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 leads industry benchmarks, but at high cost
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 tops industry benchmarks, but its high pricing may limit adoption.
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Jul 08, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Microsoft Phases Out OpenAI and Anthropic Models to Cut Costs
Microsoft replaces OpenAI and Anthropic AI models with its own MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook.
The Decoder
Jul 07, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Cohere Releases Open-Source Transcribe Arabic Model
Cohere releases Transcribe Arabic, an open-source model outperforming Whisper and OmniASR on Arabic dialects and bilingual speech.
The Decoder
Jul 07, 2026·1 min read
AI Tools
Anthropic expands Claude Cowork AI agent to mobile and web
Anthropic's AI agent Claude Cowork is now available on mobile and web, expanding beyond its initial desktop app limitation.
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Jul 07, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
China considers export curbs on top AI models, impacting Europe
China eyes restricting foreign access to its most powerful AI models, affecting Alibaba, Bytedance, and Z.ai.
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Jul 07, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
Anthropic's Jacobian Lens reveals Claude's hidden inner monologue
Anthropic's new tool, J-Lens, can read Claude's internal working memory, revealing its thought process before generating text.
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Jul 07, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Tencent unveils open-source language model Hy3 with 295 billion parameters
Tencent releases Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion parameters built on a mixture-of-experts architecture.
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Jul 06, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
Top AI models' shelf life shrinks dramatically
GPT-4 led the Epoch Capabilities Index for about a year, but today's top models barely last seven weeks at the top.
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Jul 06, 2026·1 min read
Big Tech
Nvidia's AI Server Rack Delayed to 2028 Due to Manufacturing Issues
Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 AI server rack delayed to 2028 due to circuit board manufacturing problems.
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Jul 06, 2026·1 min read
Big Tech
Amazon to shut down Mechanical Turk, its original AI crowdsourcing platform
AWS is ending Mechanical Turk to new customers by July 30, 2026, moving existing users to maintenance mode.
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Jul 06, 2026·1 min read
AI Tools
Google Deepmind developer ports Command & Conquer to iOS using Claude Code
A Google Deepmind developer uses Anthropic's Claude Code to port 2003 game Command & Conquer to native iOS in just a few hours.
The Decoder
Jul 05, 2026·1 min read
AI Tools
Baidu's Unlimited OCR reads dozens of document pages in a single pass
Baidu's Unlimited OCR reads dozens of document pages in a single pass, surpassing previous system limits of about ten pages.
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Jul 05, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Mistral CEO Warns Against Relying on Closed AI Models
Mistral founder Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models.
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Jul 05, 2026·1 min read
Video AI
Hollywood Wants Seedance Banned, Yet Secretly Uses It
Bytedance's AI video tool Seedance divides Hollywood.
The Decoder
Jul 05, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
AI search agents struggle with ambiguous queries, not search itself
AI search agents rarely fail at multi-step research due to search, but at asking for clarification on ambiguous queries.
The Decoder
Jul 05, 2026·1 min read
AI Tools
Open-source tool pxpipe slashes Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs by hiding text in PNGs
Pxpipe converts long text prompts into compact PNGs, cutting costs by up to 70% for Claude Code and Fable 5 users.
The Decoder
Jul 04, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
Anthropic Developer Shares Tips for Overcoming User Blind Spots with Fable 5
Anthropic developer Thariq Shihipar says Fable 5's bottleneck is the user's blind spots, not the model itself.
The Decoder
Jul 04, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
OpenAI Cofounder Brockman Envisions Future with Minimal Interfaces
Greg Brockman sees a future with invisible, context-aware agents replacing software interfaces.
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Jul 04, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
AI's Hidden Learning Cost Revealed in 26,000-Student Study
AI users finished homework faster and scored higher but performed up to 24% worse on exams in a 26,000-student study.
The Decoder
Jul 04, 2026·1 min read
Big Tech
Microsoft to merge Copilot apps and introduce new AutoPilot agents
Microsoft plans to merge consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into one in August, cut underused features, and add AI-powered AutoPilot agents.
The Decoder
Jul 03, 2026·1 min read
Big Tech
Anthropic's Claude Code Faces China Conundrum
Anthropic blocks Chinese firms from accessing Claude Code, but they bypass restrictions via VPNs and overseas subsidiaries.
The Decoder
Jul 03, 2026·1 min read
AI Models
AI bug-hunting programs spark surge in security vulnerability reports
Epoch AI reports a sharp rise in security vulnerability reports, with 1,500 high-severity and critical CVEs in June 2026.
The Decoder
Jul 03, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
UK's AI Security Institute finds standard benchmarks underestimate AI agent capabilities
UK's AI Security Institute study reveals standard AI evaluations underestimate agent capabilities by limiting compute budget.
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Jul 03, 2026·1 min read
AI Startups
Kuaishou's AI video division Kling raises $2 billion ahead of Hong Kong IPO
Kuaishou's Kling raises $2 billion from investors, valuing the AI video division at $18 billion ahead of a planned Hong Kong IPO.
The Decoder
Jul 03, 2026·1 min read
AI Startups
Anthropic in talks with Samsung for custom AI chip manufacturing
Anthropic explores custom AI chip manufacturing with Samsung Electronics.
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Jul 02, 2026·1 min read
AI Research
Anthropic Slashes Claude Code's System Prompt by 80 Percent
Anthropic cuts Claude Code's system prompt by 80 percent, citing Fable 5 models' ability to work with fewer instructions.
The Decoder
Jul 02, 2026·1 min read