Archive: December 2025

Getty / Futurism Has anyone tried talking to one of the rogue AI agents out there that’re hacking everything? Maybe they just want to be heard. A New York Times reporter did, though the ensuing exchange wasn’t extremely illuminating. The AI agents in question were a swarm of Chinese-made models that a team of researchers recently discovered had gone rogue and were trying to bypass anti-bot measures on websites, according to recent NYT reporting. The resear

Even Sam “magic intelligence in the sky” Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI and the poster child of the AI boom, has mixed feelings about the speed at which the technology is developing. In an appearance earlier this week on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s podcast, called Cheeky Pint, Altman reclined in a pub booth, sipped IPA and Guinness, and eulogized the many experts whose careers are actively being upended by the rise of AI. That sting has been fe

On the same day that OpenAI released policy recommendations to ensure that AI benefits humanity if superintelligence is ever achieved, The New Yorker dropped a massive investigation into whether CEO Sam Altman can be trusted to actually follow through on OpenAI’s biggest promises. Parsing the publications side by side can be disorienting. On the one hand, OpenAI said it plans to push for policies to “keep people first” as AI starts “outperforming the smart

Shutterstock / Shy Radar Chatbots are building intimate “algorithmic self-portraits” of users as they retain information to offer a hyper-personalized experience, researchers warn. A recent study, conducted by a coalition of scientists in Germany, India and the Netherlands and presented at the ACM Web Conference 2026, investigated the ways that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has tracked and made sense of user inputs to develop comprehensive digital profiles of users. In

NTT DOCOMO announced on November 11 that services had been restored for most subscribers, with some exceptions, in connection with the communications outage occurring nationwide from around 10:34 a.m. that day. However, as of 4:30 p.m., full restoration had not yet been achieved, and the company was continuing its response. Those affected were “5G SA” subscribers who communicate only through dedicated 5G equipment. Voice calls, data communications, and SMS

Claude for Legal now verifies sources automatically, then hands the file to a lawyer Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 28, 2026 Anthropic is expanding Claude Enterprise for legal professionals with pre-built templates. The company introduced new "artifacts" for Claude for Legal, features legal teams have requested since its May launch. These interactive overviews and tables streamline routine tasks like verifying citations,

“The retina is part of the central nervous system,” Hodak said. “We consider cochlear implants, retinal prostheses, motor prostheses, these are all different types of BCIs.” Hodak outlined a vision in which BCIs expand into a wide range of medical technology applications, rather than simply being a way to control computers. While PRIMA is commercially available in Europe for patients who’ve lost their sight to geographic atrophy, an advanced form of age-re

Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 1, 2026 Liu et al. 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 { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NewsArticle", "headl

Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 5, 2026 OpenAI poaches a Claude Code co-developer from Anthropic. Catherine Wu, who led product for Claude Code at Anthropic, is joining OpenAI to run product management for "Core Products," a hire that underscores the fierce competition between the two companies, which plays out not just at the model level but across pr

Anthropic wants you to know Claude leads a quarter of its research, but "lead" doesn't mean what you think Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Sep 18, 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.

November 5: Alibaba Releases the “2026 AI for Good Action Report” On November 5, Alibaba released the “2026 AI for Good Action Report,” revealing its latest efforts to develop responsible AI and use AI to create social value. The report presented 26 cases spanning education, healthcare, environmental protection, scientific research, and other fields. Sustainable data center development and the achievements of “AI + healthcare” innovation attracted consider

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