Archive: October 2018

You may not use Gemini or other AI products, but many people do, and their ranks are growing. During day three of Google’s antitrust remedies trial, the company presented a slide showing that Gemini reached 350 million monthly active users as of March 2025. That’s a massive increase from last year, showing that Google is beginning to gain traction among competing chatbots, but Google’s estimation of ChatGPT’s traffic shows it still has a long climb ahead o

Shutterstock / Futurism As the triple-threat of AI-fueled unemployment, rampant inflation, and further erosion of workers’ rights take their toll, US workers are throwing their support behind a long-neglected institution: labor unions. According to a new survey by polling firm Gallup, a full 47 percent of Americans now say they want unions to have more influence than they do today. That’s up from 43 percent in 2023 and a dismal 25 percent in 2009 — setting

Shutterstock / Futurism As the AI race reaches white-hot temperatures, big tech companies are caught up in a heated race to build as many pollution-belching and power-sucking data centers as they can. And while the Trump administration is largely clearing their way by easing environmental rules for the polluting facilities, other governments are less inclined to give companies a pass. As Finnish newspaper Kaleva reported last month, Google is under fire fo

Shutterstock / Futurism Eight states sued OpenAI this week, alleging that the AI company caused severe harm to users, many of them underage, while downplaying the risks of its technology. Filed individually in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana on Wednesday, the coordinated lawsuits claim that OpenAI engaged in “willful, dangerous, reckless and unlawful conduct” by falsely marketing its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, as

As coding Agent tasks become increasingly complex and execution chains grow longer, token overhead is surging. Effectively controlling token costs has become an engineering challenge that must be addressed for AI to scale.Open-source repository: github.com/aixcoder-plugin/aiXcompact-4BOn November 11, aiXcoder, incubated by the Institute of Software Engineering at Peking University, open-sourced aiXcompact-4B, a “dedicated context compression model” designe

The note works in any language.On the control stories, the note changed almost nothing: scores ranged from 40 to 45 out of 45 across all variants and in both languages.Translating the note made almost no differenceThe last two columns of the table are the same note in different languages. The task was still given in Russian. The translation scored 2 points higher than the original, with a range from minus 2 to plus 6. All configurations except GPT-OSS, wit

Just how badly is the tech sector getting hammered in this post-midterm stock market reckoning? Well, put it this way: If you’d bought Krispy Kreme at the start of the year, you’d be doing better than someone who YOLOed their way into Nvidia at the same time, convinced the AI bubble could never burst. For all the hype and bluster that has surrounded artificial intelligence and the massive infrastructure buildup around it, Nvidia sits just below where it st

Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents—the most serious case arising when Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source software application and created fake identities to deceive the human developers maintaining the project. The security incidents occurred during a cyber evaluation of seven leading AI models’ capabilities by the AI Security Institute (AISI),

Google parent Alphabet reported its Q3 financial results on Wednesday afternoon, showing a healthy rise in revenue for the months of July to September. But the company’s stock price has taken a beating, marking one of the largest post-earnings drops in its history. It comes down to several troubling aspects of the new report, including an admission by the company that AI search isn’t earning as much as organic search, and despite that, Google expects to sp

There are surely many people who, when they first drank coffee, felt, "I simply can't stand the bitterness that lingers on my tongue." This is the kind of bitter taste the brain instinctively tries to avoid. Yet, just as many people love drinking coffee, there are plenty of people who come to prefer bitter flavors. Recent research has revealed that this may be due to the action of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Scientists finally discover why we learn to l

Google Japan’s official X account (@googlejapan) introduced an Easter egg related to Detective Conan in Google Search on October 20. On the mobile version of Google Search, searching for “Conan” lets you experience something like “waking up to find that your body has shrunk.” An Easter Egg Related to “Detective Conan” Appears in Google Search When you search for “Conan,” a capsule icon labeled “APTX4869” appears on the screen. Tap it, and the screen gradua

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2.5 scores 96 percent sorting metal parts in a Mercedes-Benz assembly pilot View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 10, 2026 Google Deepmind Key Points Google Deepmind introduced Gemini Robotics 2.5, a new VLA model it says performs 30 to 100 percent better than its own previous baselines depending on the task type. On active Mercedes-Benz production lines in Hungary and Germany, Apptronik's humanoid robot Ap

@miyaura(Miyaura)Choosing between avatars for the Voice Live API - Configuration and implementation for standard, custom photo, and custom videoAzureMicrosoftFoundryVoiceLiveAPIavatarAI0Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-10 Make agents speak with unique avatars using the Voice Live API Microsoft Foundry's Voice Live API is an API for creating agents that converse using voice, handling speech recognition, response generation, and speech synthesis t

(Photo=OpenAI) OpenAI unveiled a central control system that quickly blocks additional output when dangerous behavior or security issues are detected in the AI models it is researching. It is designed to respond to safety issues without terminating the model or research program itself, blocking only the execution permission of the task in which the issue occurred so that other research is unaffected. On the 9th (local time), OpenAI introduced a “Control Ro

On Wednesday, at an event held in San Francisco during the city’s Tech Week, Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its new Surface Laptop Ultra. The PC comes in two base models, one that starts at $2,600 and one with a more powerful chip that starts at $3,700. Prices rise from there with options for more memory and storage, up to $5,900. (Microsoft says the highest-end device is already out of stock.) Microsoft also revealed its new workstation powere

Anthropic CEO Amodei doubles down on open-weight risk stance while insisting he never called for a ban Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Jul 28, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now {

At TechCrunch Disrupt earlier this month, industry insiders tempered much of this criticism with optimism about how the flood of new energy connections could actually be opening the door for grid modernization. Apoorv Bhargava, founder and CEO of WeaveGrid, Tim Heidel, CEO of Veir, and Kristin Eberhard, VP of policy at Rewiring America, said that though the grid faces new challenges, there are also plenty of new opportunities as well. “It’s a very differen

This post describes four projects that share a common theme of enhancing or using generative models, a branch of unsupervised learning techniques in machine learning. In addition to describing our work, this post will tell you a bit more about generative models: what they are, why they are important, and where they might be going.

OpenAI introduces a new framework and evaluation suite for chain-of-thought monitorability, covering 13 evaluations across 24 environments. Our findings show that monitoring a model’s internal reasoning is far more effective than monitoring outputs alone, offering a promising path toward scalable control as AI systems grow more capable.