Archive: October 2021

Shutterstock / Futurism Open-weight AI models have skyrocketed in popularity. They allow users to host their own AI systems locally and evade safety guardrails enforced by commercial companies like OpenAI or Anthropic. Unfortunately, those qualities also make open-weight models popular among people who use AI to generate child sex abuse material (CSAM). As Bloomberg lays out in a shocking new feature, AI models that are partially or fully open-source have

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Perplexity announced the launch of Teammates, a system of artificial intelligence (AI) agents designed to take on ongoing tasks in work environments. The feature allows different responsibilities to be assigned to assistants that operate simultaneously, track projects, and can act when they identify changes — without needing to receive new instructions at every step.The feature was introduced this Thursday

One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching across multiple Utah sites. But intense local backlash in Box Elder County has now pushed the developer to cut the project plans in half before construction starts. Residents’ top concern was the Stratos data center project draining local waters, and they were willing to pay to protect them, most especially the vulnerable Great Salt Lake.

Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech conference in Napa on Wednesday, Meta’s President and Vice Chair Dina Powell McCormick said that after the crushing defeat of numerous Republican legislators, governors, and other elected officials, it’s “going to be harder” to build data centers, according to the Journal. “I can also tell you that every hyperscaler is now thinking about ‘Do we need to build outside the United States?’,” Powell McCormick added

New Jersey’s deputy attorney general, Brian Richard Fitzgerald, was arrested on “felony charges related to AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM),” Bucks County Detectives said in a press release Thursday. In the US, cops have vowed to crack down on AI CSAM since at least 2024, when the Department of Justice made one of the earliest arrests. After charging a Wisconsin man with spreading “thousands of realistic images of prepubescent minors” across

Software developer Simon Willison has published an account of developing a system that uses AI to pinpoint the location of a sound, in order to track down the mysterious electronic "beep" heard from somewhere in the room. The system makes use of microphones on devices such as smartphones and tablets, and reportedly succeeded in narrowing down the source of the sound to within about 40 cm. Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude https://simonwi

OpenAI asks outside experts, including a Nobel laureate, to check proofs its AI produced in math, computer science, and physics Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 27, 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

Ticket savings of up to $100 will end when doors open on October 13 at 8 a.m. PT. Don’t forget to get a second pass of the same ticket types at 50% off. Or if you’ve been affected by a layoff, then grab your Expo+ Pass at just $75. Your next opportunity could be one conversation away at Disrupt Different people come to Disrupt looking for different outcomes. For founders, the Expo Hall or the founder-investor exclusive Deal Flow Café could mean meeting an

The latter puts Bee into more direct competition with AI devices like the Plaud Note or Pocket, but at a lower price point — the Bee Frontier is $74.99, compared with $159 for the Plaud Note (or $189 for the Note Pro), or $129 for the Pocket AI device. The Bee Frontier will come in Onyx, Lavender, and Sage, while the $99.99 Bee Eclipse will be offered in Silver, Midnight, Honey, and Blush. Image Credits:Amazon Like the original Bee, the idea with the new d

Veritas was founded by Luci Holland, a former Tesla technical product manager who also has a background in design and art. Its chip is built to be easily inserted into products without damaging them. Brands can use it to verify whether a product is the real deal, and customers can show a certificate of ownership through the company’s app. Holland said other approaches are easier to defeat, because a digital record can be reproduced through a copied QR code

However, the methods behind these evaluations are complicated and still maturing, said Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face’s chief policy officer, during a discussion at TechCrunch Disrupt last week. Testing needs to come together into a more consistent science if the industry is to rely on them in the future. With that in mind, can we trust the current tests that are being released? “Trust is such a weighted term,” said Solaiman. “In terms of whether we can trus

At the design company’s first Config conference held in India, the company announced 20 new MCP partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode, and Sarvam Agents. Field has expressed his misgivings about MCP before. Days before this announcement, one of MCP’s co-creators complained about Figma not supporting the open source tool Pi. As part of his response, Field made a comment about Anthropic not ma

“The speed and depth of our enterprise customer adoption are powerful evidence of Claude’s position at the frontier of AI,” the S-1, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, reads. As of September 30, Anthropic recorded more than 11,900 customers spending at least $100,000; more than 1,900 customers spending upward of $1 million; and about 250 customers spending $10 million or more annually. Anthropic attributes customer momentum to a “

Bytedance's Seedream 5.5 promises pixel-stable image editing across 100 rounds without color drift Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 9, 2026 Bytedance Seed introduces Seedream 5.5, a new image generation model built for professional production workflows. According to Bytedance, one improvement is stable multi-round editing across up to 100 rounds, with unchanged image areas preserved at the pixel level and no color shifts.

Why a new report on Anthropic automating AI development is alarming researchersAI is dramatically speeding up Anthropic’s research, even as the company calls for slowing down AI development.AI is dramatically speeding up Anthropic’s research, even as the company calls for slowing down AI development.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Photo: Jason Henry/Bloomberg via Getty Images is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell F