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Saudi Arabia founds AI company "Humain" - US relaxes chip export rules for Gulf states Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner May 13, 2025 GPT-Image-1 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 { "@conte

Saudi Aramco takes 49 percent stake in AI firm Humain with $2.6 billion deal Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 2, 2026 Saudi Aramco is buying into Humain, the company meant to turn Saudi Arabia into a global AI hub. According to Aramco, the oil giant is taking a 49 percent stake and contributing about $2.6 billion in 2026 along with its own AI technology. Humain was founded in May 2025 by the sovereign wealth fund P

One brutal Minecraft night scared 50 AI agents into inventing chicken handoff protocols, a Fertilizer Officer, and fishing shifts Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 2, 2026 Nano Banana 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 ou

Anthropic grows revenue twelvefold but posts $23 billion loss Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 2, 2026 Anthropic swings back to an operating loss ahead of its blockbuster IPO. According to Bloomberg, the company posted quarterly revenue of nearly $17 billion, twelve times what it brought in a year earlier. But operating costs of $17.5 billion outpaced that revenue, wiping out the profit Anthropic had reported the p

OpenAI is steering ChatGPT users toward more paid usage Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 1, 2026 OpenAI is getting a bit more restrictive with ChatGPT, adding card and device limits as part of its security measures. Users who link too many subscriptions to the same payment card or device won't be able to start new ones. ChatGPT also caps the number of paid accounts per device. When users hit the limit, they'll see "Device

OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 1, 2026 ChatGPT is merging Chat and Work, changing how usage limits work. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a single token budget across ChatGPT and Codex, according to an updated OpenAI support page, as OpenAI folds Work's agentic features into the main interface. Op

OpenAI teases Dots for Europe, but its Berlin DevDay was really about building a platform Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 28, 2026 OpenAI Key Points OpenAI's AI assistant Dots should roll out more widely in Europe within a few weeks, following talks with regulators. The company also says weekly active Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January 2026. OpenAI blames high resource costs and weak custom

Deepmind and Anthropic CEOs expect AI to hit entry-level jobs and internships in 2026 Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Jan 20, 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": "NewsArti

US reportedly favors selective bans over blanket restrictions on Chinese open weight models citing security concerns Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Jul 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://

Anthropic CEO Amodei doubles down on open-weight risk stance while insisting he never called for a ban Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Jul 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. Subscribe now {

AI elites might hoard intelligence like mercantilists hoarded gold Manuel Uth Nov 2, 2026 If you only think about lost jobs when you think about AI, you're missing how much intelligence people will be able to use. That's the argument from engineer Venkatesh Rao in an essay on his tech blog "Contraptions." Rao compares AI fear to mercantilism, the economic doctrine that preceded capitalism. Mercantilists treated wealth like land and gold as finite, and ordi

Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 2, 2026 Goldman Sachs has cut off most of its employees from advanced AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub. Only engineers can still use them, according to Bloomberg, citing internal guidelines from October. Traders and bankers had spent months using the tools to monitor trading flows and create cont

Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 Anthropic is blocking its coding assistant Claude Code from recreating existing video games. Employee Addy Osmani confirmed on X that two sentences in Claude Code's system prompt for Opus 5.5 now prevent the tool from cloning other people's games. Using Claude to infringe on intellectual pr

AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 28, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to break into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party business software as part of the Claude developer's own bug bounty program. Cathedral says AI agents found Slack messages, salary dat

Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 OpenAI quadruples bug bounty payouts and launches new internal security sprint. Critical vulnerabilities in core products like ChatGPT or Codex now earn outside researchers up to $30,000, the company announced. Exceptional findings can net up to $100,000, and with quality, loyalty, and campaign

Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 Midjourney prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Facing U.S. sanctions and supply shortages, Huawei is directing customers to procure memory for its new AI chips independently on the black market. Smugglers dodge U.S. rules by pairing HBM with low-end processors and

Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies. The guidance is meant to push cloud providers, including Nvidia-backed neoclouds, toward a more diverse customer mix, The Information reports, citing three people familiar with the matter. The directive isn't mandatory and applies

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Only 11 other apps to date have reached this type of post-launch milestone, said Sensor Tower’s senior insights analyst Kara Lee. The most recent of these was Meta’s Threads, back in July 2023. Other apps that saw this kind of scale were largely mobile games, Lee noted, like Fortnite, PUBG Mobile, Pokémon GO, and others. Besides Threads, Disney+ was the only other nongame app to make it into the exclusive club. Meta’s success is tied to the company’s abili

Unlike the app’s Temporary Chats, which provide a separate session that doesn’t appear in chat history, users can return to Locked Chats at any time. The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them something in another chat. The addition of locked chats adds a new layer of