Archive: May 2020

As banks around the world prepare to replace many thousands of workers with AI, Australia’s biggest bank is scrambling to rehire 45 workers after allegedly lying about chatbots besting staff by handling higher call volumes. In a statement Thursday flagged by Bloomberg, Australia’s main financial services union, the Finance Sector Union (FSU), claimed a “massive win” for 45 union members whom the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) had replaced with an AI-

People who asked Google’s AI some political questions this week reported strange answers. Who won the 2020 presidential election? It was Joe Biden, of course, who beat Donald Trump. But some folks were served what amounts to a non-response. The Google non-response some people saw read: “For official results and data regarding the 2020 United States presidential election, including the certified breakdown of electoral and popular votes by candidate, you can

Published on November 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash While he wanted to order four DGX Spark units as part of a personal project, Nicksaraev had his orders canceled by Amazon. Worse still, his account was closed. Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, says he experienced a similar mishap. Would the e-commerce giant Amazon cancel individual customers’ orders because of the global memory shortage? In any case, that is what accounts from

Anthropic opens its books for Wall Street, showing record revenue and mounting obligations Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 26, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Anthropic filed its S-1 for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker "ANT." In Q2 2026, Anthropic pulled in $11.6 billion in revenue and posted its first GAAP operating profit at $974 million. The flip side: long-term compute commitments totaling $7

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Anthropic says one AI agent beats many subagents now that models can handle complexity alone Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 25, 2026 Nano Banana Pro 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 { "@con

OpenAI is updating its Model Spec with new Under-18 Principles that define how ChatGPT should support teens with safe, age-appropriate guidance grounded in developmental science. The update strengthens guardrails, clarifies expected model behavior in higher-risk situations, and builds on our broader work to improve teen safety across ChatGPT.