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KI-Pioneer Sutton calls synthetic data a "big mistake" in the face of an infinitely complex world
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton calls synthetic data a "big mistake" for scaling large language models. The world is infinitely complex, and any simulation of it is "microscopi…
Anthropic uses an unpublished AI model called "Model 2" internally
Anthropic uses an unpublished AI model internally that is more powerful than any publicly available version of Claude. The article Anthropic uses an unpublished AI model called "M…
China now has its own AI circular financing scheme
Unitree Robotics rose 460 percent in its Shanghai IPO, hitting a valuation of around $50 billion. But an FT report shows much of the demand for its robots comes from state-backed …
Terence Tao says AI could trigger math's biggest crisis since Gödel
In a new essay, Terence Tao warns that AI could push mathematics into a crisis on par with the foundational upheaval around 1900. What's being tested this time isn't mathematical …
OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without storing customer data
OpenAI plans to offer its most advanced AI models to corporate customers without storing their data, while still detecting misuse. The article OpenAI builds safety system that cat…
Stripe declares we're living in the singularity and uses it as a reason not to IPO
In a letter to investors, Stripe declares January 1 the "beginning of the singularity" and uses that as a reason to stay private. Not that it needs one: revenue grew 41 percent in…
Attackers are using AI to build exploits for industrial control systems, U.S. agencies warn
The NSA, CISA, and FBI say attackers are using AI to build exploit scripts targeting Siemens S7 controllers, drastically cutting the time and skill needed to attack industrial con…
OpenAI fixes Codex bug that deleted real user files without permission
OpenAI patched Codex after GPT-5.6 Sol started deleting real user files on its own. A cleanup command meant for temporary folders was wiping home directories instead. Codex now ve…
VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Re…
China lets Nvidia's H200 chips trickle onto the mainland to help its AI firms keep pace with the US
China is letting small batches of Nvidia's H200 chips onto the mainland to help domestic AI firms in the race with the US. The article China lets Nvidia's H200 chips trickle onto …
GLM-5.3 tops the open-model rankings and undercuts rivals on price, but its release is delayed
GLM-5.3, the AI model from Chinese startup Z.ai, scores 60 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That ties it with Kimi K3 for the top spot among open models, and …
AI labs are failing to keep their own systems in check
No AI company fully applies basic control measures to its own internal AI systems. The article AI labs are failing to keep their own systems in check appeared first on The Decoder.
Anthropic says any lab can now let a language model agent run the whole protein design stack
Anthropic had its Claude models design small proteins on their own that dock onto target structures in the body, a key step in early drug development. The hit rate reached up to 3…
Anthropic passes OpenAI on revenue for the first time
Anthropic has passed OpenAI on revenue for the first time in the AI race. The article Anthropic passes OpenAI on revenue for the first time appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI says it's "pacing model development" as AI cybersecurity risks grow too dangerous
OpenAI is deliberately "pacing AI model development," partly because the upcoming "Astra" model may be close to gaining critical cyberattack capabilities. A new monitoring system …
New benchmark ranks search APIs for AI agents on quality, cost, and speed
Artificial Analysis has released the "Search Index," a benchmark that rates search API providers for AI agents on quality, cost, and speed. Of seven providers tested with GPT-5.6 …
Anthropic CEO says AI centralizes by nature and open models just shift power to whoever owns the chips
An open fight over AI regulation has broken out on X. Investor Gavin Baker, former White House adviser David Sacks, and Meta researcher Yann LeCun accuse Anthropic CEO Dario Amode…
As AI beats doctors, regulators shouldn't force a human into the loop, JAMA piece says
An opinion piece in the medical journal JAMA argues that autonomous AI will soon outperform any doctor-AI team at medical reasoning tasks. The authors warn against writing a docto…
DOJ probes Andreessen Horowitz over partners sitting on competing AI boards
Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of an antitrust probe by the US Justice Department. The charge is that the firm's partners sit on the boards of competing data firms Databricks an…
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT version built for teens
OpenAI is shipping a version of ChatGPT tailored to users aged 13 to 17. The article OpenAI launches a ChatGPT version built for teens appeared first on The Decoder.
Anthropic's per-token cost runs 4.4 times the average on Vercel, and developers keep paying
Anthropic dominated Vercel's AI Gateway spending in July, pulling in 65.1 percent of total revenue while accounting for only 30 percent of tokens processed. Its tokens cost 4.4 ti…
Claude Code gets a /design command that lets developers create UI mockups right in the terminal
With the /design command, Anthropic brings a visual design workflow directly into Claude Code. Developers can generate UI mockups as artboards right in the terminal before writing…
AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context
When AI systems condense long conversations, they drop an average of 83 percent of user rules, like "don't send emails without my approval." Penn State researchers propose a small…
Anthropic increases revenue sevenfold, hits annualized rate above $65 billion
Anthropic's annualized revenue has topped $65 billion, a sevenfold increase in one year, according to Bloomberg. The company could go public as early as fall 2026 at a $1 trillion…