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OpenAI researcher quit over ads because she doesn't trust her former employer to keep its own promises Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Feb 11, 2026 Sora 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 { "@cont

Altman claims ChatGPT has more users in Texas alone than Claude has across the entire US Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Feb 5, 2026 Screenshot via Anthropic 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://sche

Anthropic uses its IPO letter to renew its pledge that Claude will never show ads Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 27, 2026 Anthropic promises once more to keep ads out of Claude's chat. In its IPO filing cover letter, the company explains why it is passing on a potential massive revenue stream that funds much of the internet. "People bring some of their most important work and most personal questions to Claude, and we wan

OpenAI's partner content arrives in ChatGPT pre-summarized while the rest of the web gets raw scraps Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Oct 27, 2026 Content from OpenAI's licensing partners appears to flow into ChatGPT through a dedicated pipeline that gives it priority over the rest of the web. That's the finding of an analysis by David Konitzny, a GEO researcher at Berlin-based startup Peec AI. Of three configured news engines,

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

Former Deepmind researcher thinks AlphaGo's playbook can cure AI hallucinations Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Oct 27, 2026 Metis Reasoning Key Points Former Deepmind researcher Thore Graepel founded Metis Reasoning to make AI systems more reliable and verifiable, using AlphaGo's approach as a blueprint. The method separates knowledge from model weights and stores it in an external ledger, where an independent module checks ev

Google Deepmind's Genie 4 puts a modern spin on agent designs that predate LLMs Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 27, 2026 Google Key Points Google Deepmind has introduced Genie 4, an interactive world model that calculates environments frame by frame in real time and, for the first time, directly generates matching background audio and character dialogue. Gemini models steer events in the background, planning multi

Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find Manuel Uth 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 our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NewsArticle",

With AI writing the code, entrepreneurial thinking is now what counts most for newcomers at Anthropic Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 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. Subscrib

While the startup claims to have hit more than $1 million in annualized revenue within two months of coming out of stealth in July, co-founder Joowon Kim (pictured on right) admits that Melius didn’t hit it out of the park initially. When the New York-based company first launched over a year ago, Kim and his co-founders, Young Kim (pictured on left) and Arnav Ramu (pictured center) set out to build an AI-powered performance marketing tool. The three knew e

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Alexander Embiricos, product lead for Dots at OpenAI, will join us at Moscone West in San Francisco just days after the company unveiled its new always-on personal AI agent. Image Credits:TechCrunch Dots are designed to go beyond answering prompts. They have their own cloud computers, can connect to the apps people use every day, and can keep working toward a goal in the background, potentially giving AI far greater access to our work and digital lives. Do

On Wednesday, the tech giant’s public incubator and experimental platform launched a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground, which allows users to build browser-based games using simple text prompts, eliminating the need for coding expertise. With Playground, creators can select a genre, such as trivia or racing, or start a project from scratch. They can specify whether they want a 2D or 3D game and choose between single-player and multipl

“These were kind of the ‘Gen 1’ AI products, and because of my background, these companies called me and asked me to help them,” Fadell said. “I didn’t.” It’s no surprise that these companies want Fadell’s advice. He’s credited as the “father of the iPod,” a co-creator of the iPhone, and the founder of Nest, the smart thermostat company acquired by Google. “You have to really understand what you’re trying to do, what pain you’re trying to solve,” he said.

The financing includes an $8 million seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, and a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures. The company is not disclosing its valuation. Founded in South Africa in 2022 by siblings Jemima and Josiah Meyer (pictured above), the startup initially offered a clinical nutrition tool Jemima had built for dietitians. But the company later pivoted and built a more general-purpose platform that aims to

More than 97% of the content Meta acted on was found by its systems before users reported it, the company said. In India, Meta acted on 5.3 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content during the same period, with more than 98% detected before users reported it. Meta said its latest AI tools are aimed at people using ads that look harmless to send users to illegal content outside Meta’s platforms. The company has introduced a new large language mode

OpenAI says many of those visuals will be interactive. In other words, instead of just flat, cartoonish pictures, the chatbot will frequently include things like tappable buttons, a customized calculator for a specific task, interactive charts, editable graphs, and other elements the user can work with directly. The big goal here, according to OpenAI, is to make “learning complex topics easier.” It may also make ChatGPT friendlier and more accessible and h

The rating comes as chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been accused of following the same playbook as social media companies: designing products that keep users engaged, even when that engagement can become harmful. In chatbots, engagement is often won by behaviors like sycophancy and sometimes leads to catastrophic consequences. In response to a wave of teen suicides and other concerns related to kids using chatbots — like cheating on tests — OpenAI laun

Muse, meanwhile, hit the iPad just a month after launching on iPhone. (To be fair, it may not be as difficult to bring something like Muse to iPad, given its text-heavy interface, where image and video resolution and formatting matter less.) Since launching on iOS and Android on September 8, Muse has topped 6.6 million installs, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The app, which is now one of dozens of consumer-facing AI agen