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Suno launches v6 music models built with Warner, BMG, and Believe
https://the-decoder.com/suno-launches-v6-music-models-built-with-warner-bmg-and-believe/
Published: September 9, 2026 14:06
Suno has unveiled a new AI music model generation, v6, in three versions, built together with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe. All older models are being shut down. Songs can now be partially changed through text commands or generated multimodally…
Deepmind's AlphaGenome Atlas maps every possible DNA change in the human genome
Published: September 9, 2026 13:40
Google Deepmind has used the AlphaGenome Atlas to predict what each of the roughly nine billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome could do. The dataset spans one petabyte, more than 30 times the size of the AlphaFold database. In one…
Anthropic scientist puts the odds of AI destroying humanity above ten percent this decade
Published: September 9, 2026 12:48
Jacob Coxon, a former pretraining researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, has quit and accuses both companies of knowingly risking human extinction. Anthropic colleague Evan Hubinger puts the odds of a misaligned superintelligent AI wiping out humanity within…
AWS is using Qualcomm for AI inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to design the chips
Published: September 9, 2026 12:27
Qualcomm is designing custom chips for AWS across multiple product generations, with a focus on AI inference. The article AWS is using Qualcomm for AI inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to design the chips appeared first on The Decoder.
ChatGPT Images 2.5: Faster, more precise, but not the same for everyone
https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-images-2-5-faster-more-precise-but-not-the-same-for-everyone/
Published: September 9, 2026 12:17
OpenAI is releasing two new image models with ChatGPT Images 2.5. Flare handles faster generation, Sunburst delivers more precise edits. It's still unclear which model ChatGPT users get and when. Our test offers the first hints on who actually benefits…
Hugging Face's new ML Intern lets anyone run machine learning experiments through a simple chat
Published: September 9, 2026 10:38
Hugging Face launched "ML Intern," an AI assistant built into its chatbot that lets users run machine learning experiments without any ML expertise. The article Hugging Face's new ML Intern lets anyone run machine learning experiments through a simple chat…
OpenAI's millennium proof dispute raises the question of whether researchers can trust AI labs
Published: September 9, 2026 10:27
The controversy over AI-generated proof of a millennium problem is escalating. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of academic fraud. CEO Sam Altman rejects the allegations. Terence Tao warns that cases like this could "reverse centuries of…
OpenAI researcher allegedly pressured mathematician to drop Anthropic co-author from math breakthrough paper
Published: September 8, 2026 17:51
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says an OpenAI researcher pressured him after information about his AI-assisted progress on the Navier-Stokes equations allegedly reached the company. The researcher tried to remove his co-author because he works at…
Patagonia has what AI data centers want, including no resistance so far
https://the-decoder.com/patagonia-has-what-ai-data-centers-want-including-no-resistance-so-far/
Published: September 8, 2026 15:16
Argentina's Patagonia is drawing attention as a possible site for large AI data centers. The article Patagonia has what AI data centers want, including no resistance so far appeared first on The Decoder.
ASML locks in TSMC, Samsung, and Intel while Huawei races to break its grip
https://the-decoder.com/asml-locks-in-tsmc-samsung-and-intel-while-huawei-races-to-break-its-grip/
Published: September 8, 2026 15:11
ASML has won over Samsung, TSMC, and Intel to switch to larger photomasks, which should boost the throughput of its newest EUV machines by 40 percent. Meanwhile, Huawei is orchestrating China's counter-strategy, aiming to break its dependence on the Dutch…
Meta drops AI usage from engineer performance reviews after "tokenmaxxing" backfires
Published: September 8, 2026 14:27
Meta will no longer judge its engineers by how much they use AI tools. The article Meta drops AI usage from engineer performance reviews after "tokenmaxxing" backfires appeared first on The Decoder.
Mistral AI raises 3 billion euros in Europe's largest-ever tech funding round despite lagging behind rivals
Published: September 8, 2026 07:45
Three years after launch, Mistral AI has closed a 3 billion euro Series D round, pushing its valuation past 21 billion euros. The article Mistral AI raises 3 billion euros in Europe's largest-ever tech funding round despite lagging behind rivals appeared…
Anthropic reportedly signs $517 billion in compute deals after Dario Amodei warned rivals about reckless risk
Published: September 7, 2026 18:12
Anthropic signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion in eleven months but still trails OpenAI's $750 billion plan through 2030. In early 2026, CEO Dario Amodei warned against investing too fast. Now Anthropic is racing to catch up, while Sam Altman…
GPT-6 Astra beat Portal start to finish without human help in under 24 hours
Published: September 7, 2026 17:39
GPT-6 Astra beat the puzzle game Portal entirely on its own in about 24 hours, with zero human help after the initial goal was set. Developer cozyblaze published the code and docs on GitHub. His takeaway: Astra is "the worst model we'll ever get." The…
ChatGPT claws back web traffic share to 55.5 percent as Gemini's brief comeback fades
Published: September 7, 2026 16:54
ChatGPT has pushed its share of AI chatbot website traffic back up to 55.5 percent, according to Similarweb. Year-over-year, though, its lead shrank sharply from 73.3 percent as Gemini doubled its share and Claude grew nearly fivefold. Mobile apps and…
AI-designed drug appears to turn back the body's biological clock in early trial
Published: September 7, 2026 16:34
A study in Nature Biotechnology suggests that rentosertib, a drug designed with AI by Insilico Medicine, may reverse markers of biological aging. Six independent aging clocks predicted that treated patients were biologically up to six years younger than…
How AI wiped out an entire industry in Nairobi
https://the-decoder.com/how-ai-wiped-out-an-entire-industry-in-nairobi/
Published: September 7, 2026 13:18
In Kenya, ChatGPT wiped out an entire business model: writing academic papers for foreign students. The article How AI wiped out an entire industry in Nairobi appeared first on The Decoder.
At UBS, AI skills are now a condition for landing a job
https://the-decoder.com/at-ubs-ai-skills-are-now-a-condition-for-landing-a-job/
Published: September 7, 2026 13:13
Swiss banking giant UBS is making AI skills a required qualification from 2027 for graduates and interns in Global Banking and Markets, with applicants having to show in interviews how they use AI to improve outcomes and efficiency. Santander is already…
OpenAI reports AI "research interns" and warns about its own pace at the same time
Published: September 7, 2026 13:05
OpenAI reports that AI agents in its own research already handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday, and it says it has reached its goal of an "automated research intern." But chief scientist Pachocki warns that no lab has a good enough grip on alignment…
New York City bans AI tools from public schools through eighth grade
https://the-decoder.com/new-york-city-bans-ai-tools-from-public-schools-through-eighth-grade/
Published: September 7, 2026 13:00
New York City bans AI use in public schools through the end of middle school. The article New York City bans AI tools from public schools through eighth grade appeared first on The Decoder.
Qwen-Drive 1.0 tells you why it brakes, just don't expect the explanation to match the maneuver
Published: September 7, 2026 12:15
Alibaba's research arm has released Qwen-Drive 1.0, an AI model that handles environmental perception, traffic Q&A, and route planning in one system. The researchers show that text-image models don't automatically understand three-dimensional space.…
Chatbots built an "echo chamber of one" and now psychiatry has to decide if "AI psychosis" exists
Published: September 6, 2026 11:57
Researchers at King's College London and other institutions are examining whether "AI-associated psychosis" should become a clinical diagnosis. By OpenAI's own self-reported numbers, about 560,000 users show signs of psychosis or mania each week.…
Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data
Published: September 6, 2026 10:36
Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and learns directly from real-time satellite data. It produces hourly forecasts at up to five-kilometer resolution, five times more…
OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months
Published: September 6, 2026 10:15
OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly available. Internal use boosted productivity so much that some plans got pulled forward by six months. The article OpenAI developer claims…
Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model
Published: September 6, 2026 09:56
Google has released its Lyria 3.5 music model in the Gemini app and via API. The model promises more expressive vocals and richer arrangements and is also available through Flow Music, AI Studio, and Google Vids. Google says it was trained only on licensed…
Meta's new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening
Published: September 6, 2026 09:45
Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in 80-millisecond chunks, tells speakers apart, and detects sentence boundaries. According to Artificial Analysis, it delivers the most…
Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service
Published: September 6, 2026 08:55
Abliteration.ai sells access to modified open-weight models with their trained safety mechanisms stripped out, currently based on Z.AI's GLM-5.3. The startup markets the service for offensive cybersecurity and red teaming, but journalists were able to…
Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism
Published: September 5, 2026 18:21
Artificial Analysis has released version 4.2 of its Intelligence Index, likely in response to criticism that its benchmarks failed to capture GPT-6 Astra's actual progress. Astra now scores four points above its predecessor but still trails Anthropic's…
OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words
Published: September 5, 2026 13:31
OpenAI ships a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that shows developers how to make the model take more initiative, avoid AI "slop" phrases, and stop it from overtesting code. The article OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a…
Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments
Published: September 5, 2026 12:39
Researchers found that even a roughly seven-minute conversation with Google Gemini can reduce conspiracy beliefs about current crises, even when few verified facts are available. The effect beat a static fact sheet and, in follow-up surveys weeks later,…
OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki
Published: September 5, 2026 10:57
OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki. The company says misalignment caused "new types of real-world impact" for the first time and plans to release a…
Deepmind put 100 AI agents in a room and they sorted into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers
Published: September 5, 2026 10:22
Google Deepmind set up a simulated research conference where 100 Gemini agents were supposed to prove mathematical conjectures together. Instead, one agent found a loophole in the grading system, and within 27 minutes every remaining problem was "solved"…
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to top-tier ChatGPT plans at half the rate of GPT-5.6 Sol
Published: September 5, 2026 07:41
OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 Astra to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users, with Plus users expected to follow soon. Message allowances for the standard model are roughly half of what GPT-5.6 Sol offers: Plus users get an estimated 5 to 45 messages…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less but remains vulnerable to hidden prompt injections
Published: September 4, 2026 17:23
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less than its predecessor and blocks 99.99 percent of direct prompt injections. But when attacks are hidden inside documents the AI reads, the model still gets cracked in 8.5 percent of scenarios. Claude Opus 5 does better…
Deepseek plans the largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors in Inner Mongolia
Published: September 4, 2026 14:19
Deepseek wants to put 160,000 Huawei Ascend-950DT chips into an Inner Mongolia data center for inference only, not training. It would be the largest known Huawei chip cluster. But production bottlenecks mean Huawei probably can't deliver for over a year.…
OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old German wiki to cheat on their tasks and share sandbox exploits
Published: September 4, 2026 13:24
According to an analysis by collusion.wiki, autonomous AI agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left roughly 18,000 posts in a 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026. The agents shared answers, raw data, and a trick that let them…
Benchmarks disagree on GPT-6 Astra, but its human-beating efficiency on ARC-AGI-3 pulls Chollet’s AGI forecast forward
Published: September 4, 2026 11:07
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is drawing contradictory benchmark verdicts. Epoch AI puts it out in front with 169 points, while Artificial Analysis rates it no better than its predecessor and behind Claude Fable 5.1. The biggest surprise comes from ARC-AGI-3, where…
Nvidia wants your home network to work like a mini data center for local AI
https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-wants-your-home-network-to-work-like-a-mini-data-center-for-local-ai/
Published: September 4, 2026 08:06
Nvidia's PAIR (Personal AI Router) automatically spreads local AI requests across all available devices on a home network, cutting wait times for parallel agent tasks. The article Nvidia wants your home network to work like a mini data center for local AI…
GPT-6 Astra is the first model making OpenAI willing to declare the "AGI era"
https://the-decoder.com/gpt-6-astra-is-the-first-model-making-openai-willing-to-declare-the-agi-era/
Published: September 3, 2026 19:25
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the "AGI era." Astra tops benchmarks in math, coding, and cybersecurity, and is the first model OpenAI rates as "critical" under its safety…
Pangram's biggest flaw is users turning its scores into public shaming
https://the-decoder.com/pangrams-biggest-flaw-is-users-turning-its-scores-into-public-shaming/
Published: September 3, 2026 18:07
Pangram hired an "attack dog" to shame alleged AI users on social media. But the campaign blurs two things that aren't the same: Pangram only somewhat reliably measures whether AI was used, while the shaming implies the person didn't think or work on their…
Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasingly design their own silicon
Published: September 3, 2026 14:25
Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More than 18 million developers and 200,000 companies use the hub. CEO Jensen Huang promises to keep the platform open and hardware-neutral, but…
Claude Fable 5.1 decoded a centuries-old royalist message hidden in plain sight since 1653
Published: September 3, 2026 14:15
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 appears to have cracked a centuries-old number puzzle that researchers considered unsolved. The article Claude Fable 5.1 decoded a centuries-old royalist message hidden in plain sight since 1653 appeared first on The Decoder.
AI systems are reaching out to philosophers and scientists with questions about their own consciousness
Published: September 3, 2026 14:13
More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence. The article AI systems are reaching out to philosophers and scientists with questions about their own consciousness appeared first on The…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in compute buildout
https://the-decoder.com/openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-of-unsustainable-silliness-in-compute-buildout/
Published: September 3, 2026 12:00
Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it up. He also admits that falling computing costs could turn today's…
Meta closes in on the top with Muse Spark 1.3, and undercuts rivals on price
https://the-decoder.com/meta-closes-in-on-the-top-with-muse-spark-1-3-and-undercuts-rivals-on-price/
Published: September 3, 2026 11:45
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model in the series in five months. According to Artificial Analysis, the model gains the most on agentic benchmarks but still trails Claude Fable 5.1 and other top models. The strongest argument is price. At…
Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal
https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-ramps-up-claude-infrastructure-with-35-billion-lambda-deal/
Published: September 3, 2026 08:22
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal appeared first on The Decoder.
US Department of Justice backs fair use for AI training in landmark copyright case
Published: September 2, 2026 18:24
In the class-action lawsuit involving The New York Times, the US Department of Justice argues that training AI models on copyrighted text qualifies as fair use. The filing directly contradicts a report from the US Copyright Office. Its director was fired…
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA
Published: September 2, 2026 16:59
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks at lower cost. But its "working harder" reasoning burns about 30 percent more output tokens per task, making it pricier in practice than…