Archive: April 2026

Gmail made us all rethink how email could work when it debuted more than 20 years ago. Google thinks we’re in the process of another email transformation courtesy of AI. The company has unveiled a new round of AI features that will make Gemini an even more integral part of Gmail. The new Gemini experiences are coming to paying subscribers starting today, and a collection of previously premium-only AI features are rolling out widely. AI Overviews first appe

Shutterstock / Daniel Tadevosyan Engagement farmers on TikTok are using AI to manipulate real arrest footage to show police officers kissing and groping arrestees being taken into custody. The deepfakes, which were discovered by Copyleaks, are grotesque. The AI-manipulated videos are based on actual footage of arrests — which appear to have originally been filmed for reality TV shows like TLC’s “D.U.I.” — but have been altered to depict law enforcement off

Published on October 14, 2026 at 10:00 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Mariia Shalabaieva (Unsplash) Nvidia, the AI chip giant, announced on Tuesday, October 13 that it is taking a stake in Doctolib. The company is set to become a minority shareholder, and the partnership is expected to enable Doctolib to accelerate its generative AI projects. When Nvidia takes an interest in a company, it’s to talk AI. That’s what’s happening today with Doctolib, the French medical a

Conceptual framework of the study. This figure summarizes the theoretical foundations—anthropomorphism, mind perception, narrative identity, and ethical rehearsal—and shows how they inform the narrative coding process, from four relational dimensions to six narrative types and three narrative phases. Credit: AI & SOCIETY (2026). DOI: 10.1007/s00146-025-02830-9 Researchers at University of Tsukuba examined how artificial intelligence (AI) is represented in

It has been reported that three workers died in an accident at a factory in India, an iPhone production hub second only to China. Three workers die at Tata's India iPhone parts factory in latest safety incident | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/india/three-workers-die-tata-electronics-iphone-parts-plant-new-indian-express-reports-2026-11-10/ Apple to investigate accident that killed three workers at iPhone parts factory in India - 9to5Mac https://9to

The true level of domestic RSI: No one dares actually modify model weights, but everyone is changing the "machine for building AI." Author | Gao Yunyi Editor | Cen Feng RSI, or AI building AI, has become an internal scorecard that model companies compete to show off in 2026, and one of the hottest directions in China's primary market. As long as a BP includes the word "Self-Training," its valuation is at least 20 percent higher.But true RSI is not just AI

Frontier Radar #5: If AGI is so close, why is everyone leaving? The neolabs and their bets Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 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 {

Every week there is a new model or a tool release that claims to sound human and converse like one. However, in reality, that might not be the case. Enterprise voice AI platform PolyAI’s CTO Shawn Wen thinks that despite the release of full-duplex models — which can speak while listening to you — voice AI hasn’t had its “ChatGPT moment” yet. “We have reached the milestone of developing full-duplex models. The next challenge is to make reasoning very fast,