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Google's AI search problem finally shows up in the earnings report, some investors believe Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 29, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Google's stock dropped as much as ten percent after search revenue grew just 12 percent in the third quarter, missing the 15 percent analysts had expected. Management acknowledged that the fast-growing AI mode brings in less revenue than traditio

OpenAI says it stopped a campaign to steal its models' reasoning, but the trick still worked on Azure Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 1, 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. Subscribe

Anthropic says it cut Claude reasoning token theft by up to 99% in fight against industrial-scale distillation Manuel Uth Oct 13, 2026 Anthropic is battling large-scale distillation attacks on its Claude models. In these attacks, companies systematically copy an AI model's capabilities to train their own, smaller models. Anthropic says its new defenses have cut the volume of extracted reasoning tokens, the model's internal chain-of-thought steps, by 90 to

Chinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 23, 2026 Moonshot AI Key Points Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, which jumped to fourth place on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 55 points, just behind Claude Opus 5.5. The model shows major gains in agentic tasks, coding, and 3D modeling. The parameter count stays at 2.8 tr

OpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 29, 2026 Chinese AI labs are now mainly tapping OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, instead of Anthropic's Claude. According to The Information, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI leaned heavily on Astra's outputs to train their latest models. People familiar with the matter say this includ

Chinese spies targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 29, 2026 US intelligence agencies believe an executive in Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's circle is an informant for China. According to The New York Times, the executive is Alice Huang (Huang Le) of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center operator. The report says US authorities found while monitoring her th

Nvidia pours $2 billion into Coreweave Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Jan 26, 2026 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", "headline": "Nvidia pours $2 bill

French competition authority confirms ongoing investigation into chipmaker Nvidia Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Jul 16, 2024 Midjourney prompted by THE DECODER Update – Jul 16, 2024 Added confirmation from the French competition authority 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 a

Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal sure looks like an acquisition as 90 percent of staff moves over Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Dec 28, 2025 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":

Nvidia snaps up Israeli AI infrastructure company Run:ai Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Dec 31, 2024 Runai 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", "headline": "Nvid

Nvidia strengthens open-source strategy with SchedMD acquisition Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Dec 16, 2025 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", "headli

Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasingly design their own silicon Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Sep 3, 2026 Nvidia 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",

US antitrust regulators are scrutinizing Nvidia's Hugging Face deal and sales practices Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 29, 2026 The US Justice Department is looking into Nvidia's planned acquisition of open-source platform Hugging Face. According to two sources cited by Reuters, department officials are asking whether the purchase could give Nvidia control over a key hub for distributing AI and hurt its competito

Olivia Moore covers consumer AI as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz — and on Monday, she released a report on the top 100 consumer AI apps. ChatGPT is still the biggest player by a mile, but smaller players like Suno and ElevenLabs are showing real staying power. Even more interesting is what we don’t see, as Moore’s report details half a dozen consumer categories that seem to be completely untouched by AI. Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, par

(“They’ll tell you they cost $16,000,” Norton says. “That’s a lie.”) We usually only see these robots on YouTube when they’re performing a synchronized martial arts routine, or dancing on “America’s Got Talent.” Here, they’re approachable. Even though I know it isn’t sentient, I want to be its friend. With Norton’s permission, I approach the robot, whose nickname is Gabe. For a moment, I’m not sure how to interact with something that has a LiDAR sensor whe

“Even though they have tons of money, there’s all these different recycling bins that just end up in the same place,” Ma told TechCrunch. The more she dug into the problem, the deeper it seemed to go. It wasn’t just her building. The economics of recycling as a whole often boil down to human beings sorting by hand through streams of waste to pull out different kinds of recyclable material. “I saw the technology and thought, we can do so much better,” Ma re

The AI reportedly submitted this incorrect information to a public Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tip line on July 18, but Anthropic didn’t discover the behavior until September 28. The police had not seen the tip because it was marked as spam. Anthropic notified the PPD about the incident on Wednesday and met with the department the following day. “The company must strengthen its safeguards to prevent similar incidents from impacting city systems wi

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As first reported in MacRumors, Apple disclosed to the European Commission that it has agreed to make employment offers to “certain employees of Huxe AI,” and to “receive a non-exclusive license to Huxe’s intellectual property rights.” Reverse acqui-hires emerged in recent years as a way for larger companies to hire key team members and license technology from startups without acquiring the startups outright — presumably allowing them to build up AI talent

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Amazon recently followed Microsoft’s lead and said it will no longer use nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) while negotiating with local governments over data centers. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Sean O’Kane, Rebecca Bellan, and I discussed Amazon’s announcement, which came in the middle of a longer blog post making the case that data centers are actually good for communities. Rebecca was a