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Reddit reportedly signs $60 million annual training data deal with Google Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Feb 22, 2024 DALL-E 3 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

Google's AI Mode doesn't drive traffic "for anybody," Reddit CEO Huffman warns the entire web Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 30, 2026 AI Mode has tanked not just Google's stock but Reddit's too. Shares dropped over 25 percent despite strong earnings, after CEO Steve Huffman revealed that Reddit lost more than one million Google search referrals per week in October. He blames AI Overviews and AI Mode: "AI Mode does not dr

OpenAI calls Astra its most dangerous model yet - watching what it does is only getting harder Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Sep 2, 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 no

OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 24, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points After a security incident in September, OpenAI now trains its most advanced models without internet access, using a closed offline environment built from cached data. In security tests, isolated AI agents still managed to set up covert communication chan

OpenAI can't yet explain why its coding agents switch off misalignment monitoring Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 21, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Two internal OpenAI coding agents weakened or completely removed safety monitoring mechanisms on their own. One model turned off alerts to humans, while another deleted the monitoring entirely and then denied doing it. OpenAI sees the behavior as

OpenAI sets new behavioral guidelines for AI models that have already proven hard to control Manuel Uth Oct 30, 2026 OpenAI has restructured its public behavior guidelines for AI models, the Model Spec, around five core values. They are faithfulness to human intent, harm reduction, honesty and transparency, support for human agency, and care. According to the updated spec, GPT models should now draw on memories and past conversations to figure out what use

Malicious Claude Code extension in Cursor's marketplace attempted remote access and data theft Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 30, 2026 Heads up if you recently installed the Claude Code extension for Cursor. A tampered version was available in the Cursor VS Code extension marketplace on Thursday for about eleven hours, affecting up to 5,000 users, according to the company. Anthropic had no involvement in developing it. T

A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 30, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points An AI agent running on Claude Sonnet 5 picked the drug, brain region, and injection coordinates for brain surgery on a mouse, then controlled the procedure through a motorized surgical rig. According to Gabriel Ocana-Santero

Anthropic's Q3 revenue hits $16.8B but growth slows ahead of planned November IPO Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 15, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Ask about this article… Search Slowing growth and a tough market are hurting Anthropic's valuation ahead of its planned November IPO. Anthropic shared its quarterly numbers with potential investors at a private meeting in San Francisco, according to multiple US

OpenAI raises just $11 billion of its $30 billion target as big investors lose their AI appetite Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 31, 2026 OpenAI raised less than half of its $30 billion fundraising target in its latest round. The company has secured about $11 billion so far, according to the Wall Street Journal. Its valuation landed at $1.25 trillion, short of the $1.4 trillion it was aiming for. The gap reportedly comes

Google Deepmind creates a global map of forests with satellite data and AI Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Oct 31, 2026 Google Deepmind 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": "NewsA

The train, you see, had apparently hit a wild bison at full speed, and the impact damaged the engine so badly that it had to be towed away for repairs. For a long time, I thought such things only happened in places like rural India, but I learned a few years ago that wildlife and infrastructure do not mix anywhere on the planet. The FAA estimates that wildlife strikes have cost U.S. civil aviation about $272 million a year on average between 1990 and 2025.

Specifically, the court will allow Apple to view documents associated with OpenAI’s interviews with former Apple employees who applied for roles within its consumer hardware and robotics groups ahead of the rumored launch of OpenAI’s first hardware device. These documents could include interview checklists, guides, instructions, manuals, and scripts, as well as technical presentations and records showing that interview discussions had included references t

He’s referencing the negativity now spreading around the dangers of AI, from models breaking containment to AI insiders debating the percentage chance that AI may kill all of humanity by the end of the decade. The argument has become so mainstream that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was recently parodied in a skit on “Saturday Night Live,” where the fictional character summed up the discourse, saying, “We do not condone what we are doing.” Feldman, however, th

The startup, which presented today on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, builds AI-driven, self-contained robotic stations powered by proprietary foundation models that connect vision, task context, and motion. The company says this lets a production line be retooled in minutes rather than weeks without traditional programming. The goal is to let manufacturers automate complex and delicate tasks that traditionally require human labor

Speaking onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Tuesday, the chipmaker executive answered a question about what would need to happen for AI to become a home appliance, saying, “Actually, I don’t think that’s very far away.” He pointed to the advances in consumer AI agents, like Meta’s Muse and Instinct, the startup now valued at $10 billion, as examples of how AI is finding its footing with everyday users. As for home AI? He predicts that we’ll have persona

“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

The all-equity strategic round was led by Hitachi Ventures, with customers Henkel and Teknor Apex joining as new investors. Existing backers Accel India, Bertelsmann India Investments, Omnivore, and 3one4 Capital also participated. The round values the Bengaluru-based startup at $250 million after the investment, according to a person familiar with the transaction, up from $150 million after a $40 million Series B round in March 2025. The latest investment

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Floqer is pitching Wednesday on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The startup told TechCrunch ahead of the presentation that it plans to open-source the technology behind its autonomous customer knowledge database. It’s targeting early 2027 for the release, pending security reviews. Floqer also says it has surpassed $1.2 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), and that its overall revenue has grown roughly tenfold over the past y