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AI is becoming AI's biggest customer as agentic token usage jumps 14x on OpenRouter
AI agents have consumed more tokens than humans on OpenRouter since February 6, 2025. Agentic usage has grown 14x since then, while human usage is up just 2.8x. Nearly 70 percent …
AI could make scientists do more work less well, not less work better, study argues
Even if language models worked perfectly, they could make research worse, not better. A new theoretical study argues that because AI saves time, researchers' remaining hours becom…
Memory shortage reportedly drives Nvidia AI server prices up about 15 percent
Nvidia servers with Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips are set to cost about 15 percent more due to an ongoing DRAM shortage from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, Bloomberg report…
How China's gray market sells Claude tokens at a fraction of the price
Anthropic's strict access controls against China, from geoblocking to selfie verification, are being systematically bypassed through a thriving network of so-called "transfer stat…
Study explains why AI agents benefit from "skills" and when they fail
A study from researchers at Princeton University and UC San Diego finds that so-called skills make AI agents better mainly through structured workflows, not through added knowledg…
World models that ignore human beliefs predict the wrong actions, new research shows
Current world models like Sora or Genie only simulate physics and ignore what people think, want, or feel. The new "Mental World Modeling" framework adds mental variables like bel…
RayNeo's new AI glasses skip the camera, focus on text overlays
RayNeo is launching a new headset without a camera or speakers. The article RayNeo's new AI glasses skip the camera, focus on text overlays appeared first on The Decoder.
Netflix tests language model as alternative to hand-built recommendation logic
Netflix pitted its years-old recommendation engine against an in-house language model called GenRec and says it got better results. Instead of relying on thousands of hand-crafted…
Psychological methods reveal major weaknesses in AI security testing
Researchers at the UK AI Security Institute used psychometric methods to show that popular safety benchmarks for language models don't measure one consistent trait. Blanket blocki…
Anthropic puts its most powerful model Claude Mythos 5 to work for cyber defense
Anthropic is now running its security scanner Claude Security on Claude Mythos 5. The tool scans codebases for vulnerabilities, provides severity ratings with CWE classifications,…
Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model that rivals Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks
Deepseek has released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model that adds image understanding to V4-Flash's text capabilities. On the company's own multimodal agent be…
Data center opposition surged from 42 to 75 percent in just one year, survey finds
Three out of four Americans now oppose having a data center built near them, up from an even split just a year ago, according to a Heatmap News survey. 61 percent are "strongly op…
US wants to force partner countries to choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race
The US is drafting a letter to partner countries telling them to pick a side in the AI standoff between Washington and Beijing, according to Reuters. The article US wants to force…
The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too sca…
Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia
Waymo built its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia. The article Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia appeared first …
Meta spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft's AI services
Meta has become one of Microsoft's biggest AI customers, according to Bloomberg. The article Meta spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft's AI services appeared first on The Deco…
Anthropic changes data retention policy after enterprise pushback
Anthropic is easing its controversial data storage policy, letting enterprise customers keep their own data going forward. The article Anthropic changes data retention policy afte…
Nvidia is acquiring Poolside's "Model Factory" and 109 employees for $6 billion
Nvidia is paying $6 billion for software that builds AI models from the startup Poolside, and it wants to bring on 109 employees. The article Nvidia is acquiring Poolside's "Model…
GPT-5.6 Sol drives OpenAI's revenue surge as it regains ground on Anthropic
Since GPT-5.6 Sol launched in early July, OpenAI says revenue is up 35 percent this quarter, with enterprise revenue growing more than 50 percent. Ramp data shows OpenAI outpacing…
OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 can now generate images without a background
OpenAI is previewing transparent background support for GPT-Image-2 through its API. The alpha channel gets baked in during image generation, which according to OpenAI beats conve…
Adobe Firefly adds AI audio tools and Google's Gemini Omni Flash
Adobe is making three AI audio tools broadly available in Firefly. Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects create royalty-free music, voiceovers, and sound eff…
LLMs could write like humans but post-training guardrails make their text detectable
LLMs don't write in a recognizable style because they can't do better. Post-training and safety guardrails sharply narrow their expressive range, argues Pangram CTO Bradley Emi. B…
Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead?
Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are now within striking distance of the best US models. Western labs blame distillation, and there's real evidence for it. But guilty or not, the conclusion is…
GEN-1.5: Generalist AI teaches robots new tasks from a single demo
Robotics startup Generalist AI has unveiled GEN-1.5, an AI model that teaches robots new tasks from a single demonstration. The article GEN-1.5: Generalist AI teaches robots new t…