The Decoder

• OpenAI's new prompting guide tells users to stop overthinking and start with the result The Decoder — Jul 13, 17:47 PM
• Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own The Decoder — Jul 13, 17:15 PM
• Nobel laureates and AI leaders warn the window to prepare for AI's economic impact is closing fast The Decoder — Jul 13, 16:00 PM
• Nadella calls out AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic for banning distillation while training on everyone else's data The Decoder — Jul 13, 14:28 PM
• German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German The Decoder — Jul 13, 11:41 AM
• Google’s SensorFM turns messy wearable sensor data into a general-purpose health intelligence layer The Decoder — Jul 13, 09:16 AM
• Anthropic extends free Fable 5 access for subscribers as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol heats up the pricing war The Decoder — Jul 13, 07:54 AM
• LinkedIn is the undisputed king of long-form AI slop, according to a study spanning five platforms The Decoder — Jul 12, 16:41 PM
• Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI read, click, and type on external websites The Decoder — Jul 12, 15:02 PM
• S&P Global sees OpenAI as a "key credit risk" for Oracle and cuts its credit rating The Decoder — Jul 12, 11:43 AM
• Meta kills Muse Image feature that let anyone generate AI photos of Instagram users without consent The Decoder — Jul 12, 11:20 AM
• Claude Cowork's biggest use case is the mundane office work nobody wants to own, Anthropic says The Decoder — Jul 12, 09:36 AM
• OpenAI CEO Altman is now "pretty sure" AI is net job-creating, which is quite the pivot from predicting mass layoffs The Decoder — Jul 12, 09:15 AM
• Grades dropped from 96 to 48 percent when a Brown professor made students take the exam without AI The Decoder — Jul 12, 08:25 AM
• AI agents win at Slay the Spire 2 after researchers replace growing chat logs with structured memory The Decoder — Jul 12, 07:45 AM
• OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra reportedly solves a 50-year-old math problem in under an hour The Decoder — Jul 11, 17:38 PM
• Terrorist groups are using every major AI chatbot for attack planning and weapons development The Decoder — Jul 11, 17:04 PM
• China's Orca world model matches specialized robotics systems without ever seeing a single action label The Decoder — Jul 11, 09:03 AM
• Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 outperforms GLM-5.2 in coding and costs slightly less The Decoder — Jul 11, 08:28 AM
• OpenAI admits it "didn't get everything quite right" with ChatGPT Work launch and scrambles to fix UX and costs The Decoder — Jul 11, 08:01 AM
• Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly running a "coordinated campaign" to steal trade secrets through poached employees The Decoder — Jul 11, 06:56 AM
• OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained the smaller Luna model with a "fairly underspecified prompt" The Decoder — Jul 10, 18:43 PM
• OpenAI staffer maps out which of GPT-5.6 Sol's five reasoning levels fits which task complexity The Decoder — Jul 10, 17:52 PM
• Tencent moves to buy majority stake in Manus after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion deal The Decoder — Jul 10, 16:48 PM
• OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT The Decoder — Jul 10, 12:19 PM
• The Fed wants AI investor Marc Andreessen to help figure out if AI can tame inflation The Decoder — Jul 10, 12:18 PM
• Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days The Decoder — Jul 10, 11:09 AM
• GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost The Decoder — Jul 09, 18:37 PM
• OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows The Decoder — Jul 09, 17:59 PM
• Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API pricing squeezes OpenAI and Anthropic as the AI price war heats up The Decoder — Jul 09, 16:58 PM
• OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken The Decoder — Jul 09, 13:23 PM
• Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at lower cost The Decoder — Jul 09, 11:03 AM
• OpenAI's AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest The Decoder — Jul 09, 09:56 AM
• Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared to Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 that benchmark gaps may not matter much The Decoder — Jul 08, 19:01 PM
• ChatGPT can now listen and talk at the same time, making AI conversations seem more human The Decoder — Jul 08, 18:18 PM
• Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that steers robots using just one camera The Decoder — Jul 08, 17:23 PM
• Anthropic's fix for Fable 5's high cost is turning it into a manager that delegates to Sonnet 5 The Decoder — Jul 08, 16:25 PM
• Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 dominates new industry benchmarks at a steep premium The Decoder — Jul 08, 15:59 PM
• Google Deepmind adds background execution and MCP support to Gemini API managed agents The Decoder — Jul 08, 14:45 PM
• Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year The Decoder — Jul 08, 12:44 PM
• Meta tests always-on AI glasses that capture your entire day The Decoder — Jul 08, 11:48 AM
• Muse Image is technically impressive, but Meta's use of Instagram photos raises questions The Decoder — Jul 08, 11:16 AM
• OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launches Thursday after a delay forced by the U.S. government The Decoder — Jul 08, 08:00 AM
• Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs The Decoder — Jul 07, 18:35 PM
• Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems The Decoder — Jul 07, 17:54 PM
• Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent is now available on mobile and web The Decoder — Jul 07, 17:04 PM
• China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle The Decoder — Jul 07, 16:13 PM
• Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens The Decoder — Jul 07, 14:46 PM
• Chinese AI models regularly pass 30 percent on OpenRouter as cost gap widens The Decoder — Jul 07, 11:34 AM
• Deepseek is designing its own AI chip The Decoder — Jul 07, 11:04 AM
• OpenAI and Anthropic are giving away millions in computing power to attract startups The Decoder — Jul 07, 10:44 AM
• Apollo economist warns AI profit gains outside tech could take "well beyond" what Wall Street expects The Decoder — Jul 07, 10:28 AM
• Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers The Decoder — Jul 06, 18:54 PM
• Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost The Decoder — Jul 06, 18:28 PM
• Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size The Decoder — Jul 06, 18:03 PM
• GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top The Decoder — Jul 06, 17:14 PM
• Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop The Decoder — Jul 06, 12:30 PM
• China forces its biggest AI platforms to shut down humanlike chatbot personas The Decoder — Jul 06, 12:26 PM
• Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original "Artificial Artificial Intelligence" The Decoder — Jul 06, 11:19 AM
• JADEPUFFER is the first agentic ransomware operation and it exposes old security sins at machine speed The Decoder — Jul 06, 10:04 AM
• Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours" The Decoder — Jul 05, 15:58 PM
• Baidu's "Unlimited OCR" processes dozens of document pages in one pass by treating memory like human forgetting The Decoder — Jul 05, 15:25 PM
• AI private schools sell wealthy US families on personalized learning over traditional education The Decoder — Jul 05, 10:45 AM
• Mistral CEO Mensch says proprietary AI models give labs a front-row seat to your business processes The Decoder — Jul 05, 10:22 AM
• Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it The Decoder — Jul 05, 09:02 AM
• AI search agents don't fail at searching, they fail at asking the right questions when queries get ambiguous The Decoder — Jul 05, 07:52 AM
• Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70% The Decoder — Jul 04, 18:11 PM
• Anthropic developer shares prompting tips for Fable 5 that focus on finding your own blind spots first The Decoder — Jul 04, 12:37 PM
• OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymore The Decoder — Jul 04, 09:53 AM
• A 26,000-student study shows AI's hidden learning cost takes two full years to surface The Decoder — Jul 04, 09:08 AM
• Anthropic launches its own drug discovery programs to tackle diseases Big Pharma considers unprofitable The Decoder — Jul 04, 08:11 AM
• Mistral's open-source Leanstral 1.5 aces formal math benchmarks and catches real bugs in code The Decoder — Jul 04, 07:12 AM
• Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents The Decoder — Jul 03, 19:24 PM
• Claude Code's complicated China problem involves bans on both sides of the Pacific The Decoder — Jul 03, 17:11 PM
• Security vulnerability reports have exploded since AI models started hunting for bugs The Decoder — Jul 03, 16:49 PM
• UK's AI Security Institute finds standard benchmarks systematically underestimate what AI agents can actually do The Decoder — Jul 03, 16:14 PM
• GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater's finance tests because the right answers were never public The Decoder — Jul 03, 11:16 AM
• Meta's AI agent push is moving slower than Zuckerberg planned The Decoder — Jul 03, 11:05 AM
• Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week The Decoder — Jul 03, 10:56 AM
• Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO The Decoder — Jul 03, 08:53 AM
• Microsoft launches $2.5 billion "Frontier Company" to embed 6,000 AI engineers inside enterprise clients The Decoder — Jul 02, 19:18 PM
• Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia still matters The Decoder — Jul 02, 17:30 PM
• Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models "want a smaller system prompt" The Decoder — Jul 02, 16:20 PM
• Nvidia is bankrolling AI startups to loosen Big Tech's grip on its chip business The Decoder — Jul 02, 13:00 PM
• AI agents can now complete 16 percent of freelance jobs at pro quality, up from 2.5 percent eight months ago The Decoder — Jul 02, 12:37 PM
• Google brings TikTok-style video shorts to NotebookLM The Decoder — Jul 02, 12:17 PM
• OpenAI reportedly offers the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company The Decoder — Jul 02, 10:44 AM
• SpaceX shows investors a slim AI smartphone prototype powered by xAI technology The Decoder — Jul 01, 19:47 PM
• Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers The Decoder — Jul 01, 16:00 PM
• Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text AI is closing the gap with surgical implants The Decoder — Jul 01, 15:34 PM
• Hidden code in Claude Code secretly flagged Chinese users The Decoder — Jul 01, 11:27 AM
• Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates The Decoder — Jul 01, 11:12 AM
• OpenAI paper reveals three GPT-5.6 Pro models, breaking with single top-tier strategy The Decoder — Jul 01, 10:03 AM
• Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak The Decoder — Jul 01, 07:40 AM
• Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to the pricier Opus model series The Decoder — Jun 30, 18:46 PM
• Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workspace built specifically for researchers The Decoder — Jun 30, 18:03 PM
• OpenAI reportedly cut response costs for guest ChatGPT users by more than half The Decoder — Jun 30, 17:43 PM
• Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API The Decoder — Jun 30, 17:17 PM
• Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia The Decoder — Jun 30, 15:23 PM
• San Francisco's AI boom is pricing out six-figure tech workers who can't find rent under $5,000 The Decoder — Jun 30, 15:04 PM
• US campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, and Europe is drawing a harder line The Decoder — Jun 30, 12:36 PM
• Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts The Decoder — Jun 30, 11:14 AM
• Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China The Decoder — Jun 30, 09:43 AM
• Deepseek's DSpark boosts AI speed by up to 85 percent, a strategic win under tightening US export controls The Decoder — Jun 30, 08:28 AM
• Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in The Decoder — Jun 29, 18:05 PM
• Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data The Decoder — Jun 29, 15:47 PM
• Deloitte tells its own consultants: AI is coming for the billable hour The Decoder — Jun 29, 15:14 PM
• The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school The Decoder — Jun 29, 12:30 PM
• Claude Code runs a GitHub repo's hidden malware without verification, giving attackers full control The Decoder — Jun 29, 10:04 AM
• EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe The Decoder — Jun 29, 08:38 AM
• Samsung and SK Hynix plan $590 billion chip investment as AI demand sends memory prices soaring The Decoder — Jun 29, 08:17 AM
• AI won't become a real coworker until it stops answering and starts finishing tasks The Decoder — Jun 28, 12:51 PM
• Coinbase joins the rush to Chinese AI models as Western labs face a pricing stress test The Decoder — Jun 28, 12:14 PM
• Only three AI models finished above starting capital in a 500-day startup survival test The Decoder — Jun 28, 10:16 AM
• Chinese cybersecurity firm builds AI tools to rival Mythos and frames the race as cyber-nuclear deterrence The Decoder — Jun 28, 09:30 AM
• Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn't The Decoder — Jun 28, 07:44 AM
• Anthropic's Fable 5 could return within days as Trump administration prepares to lift restrictions The Decoder — Jun 27, 17:03 PM
• Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey The Decoder — Jun 27, 15:28 PM
• J.P. Morgan sees a pile of red flags in the AI market The Decoder — Jun 27, 13:22 PM
• The companies most likely to automate your job are now funding a $1 billion program to retrain you The Decoder — Jun 27, 12:25 PM
• Anthropic gets US approval to bring back Claude Mythos 5 The Decoder — Jun 27, 09:43 AM