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Anthropic opens its books for Wall Street, showing record revenue and mounting obligations Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 26, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Anthropic filed its S-1 for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker "ANT." In Q2 2026, Anthropic pulled in $11.6 billion in revenue and posted its first GAAP operating profit at $974 million. The flip side: long-term compute commitments totaling $7

Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30 billion-plus valuation Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Aug 24, 2026 Nvidia is negotiating an investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion, more than 50 percent higher than the company's last funding round a year ago, The Information reports. Perplexity's annualized revenue has tripled from $250 million to over $750 million, driven in part by "Perplexity Computer," an

SpaceXSI apparently cuts Grok Bot quotas weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product Manuel Uth Nov 2, 2026 SpaceX is apparently cutting Grok Bot usage limits. According to the Telegraph, several users saw their quotas slashed in half over the weekend. Elon Musk responded to complaints on X on Sunday, saying that "the cost of running Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue." He didn't confirm a cut outright, but the statement speaks

Anthropic takes on Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and OpenAI's Dots with its always-on agent "Claude Duet" Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 22, 2026 Anthropic / GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Anthropic has released a preview of "Claude Duet," an app where an AI agent handles tasks for the user in the background. The app runs on cloud computers and connects to outside services like Gmail, Slack, and Stripe.

OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta's Muse Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Sep 29, 2026 OpenAI Key Points At its DevDay 2026 developer conference, OpenAI introduced "Dots," always-on AI agents that run around the clock on their own cloud computers and handle tasks like research, data analysis, and coding by themselves. Users can reach the agents through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. When no one

Meta's Muse agent gives every user a full cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Sep 25, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Ask about this article… Search Every Muse user gets a free, full-fledged computer in the cloud with its own Ubuntu Linux image. Every Muse user gets a free, full-featured computer in the cloud, according to David Singleton, VP of Engineering at Meta Superintelligence La

Perplexity Computer bundles rival AI models into one agentic workflow system for $200 a month Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Feb 25, 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": "

Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent Manuel Uth Nov 6, 2026 Perplexity now has its own AI agent that runs around the clock and handles work tasks on its own. While Perplexity Computer executes one-off assignments, the new Teammates stay active and work through ongoing projects independently. Each Teammate runs on its own virtual machine with a desktop and browser. Users track progress through dedicated threads in the Perplexity app and can interac

The satellite, which carries four Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and generates up to 1 kW of electricity, is intended to pave the way for future networks of close-flying satellites performing large inference workloads in orbit. However, the power demands of the TPU mean it can only turn one on for about 20 minutes at a time, complicating the already tricky business of space-to-ground communications. After a commissioning process that tested out the

The launch reflects a broader shift in how startups are thinking about AI, as conversational AI agents take on tasks that had previously required users to launch stand-alone mobile apps. For Zest, that means bringing its restaurant recommendations into texts, then allowing users to immediately take the next step of booking a table. “The agent is the product now,” explains Zest founder and CEO Mario Gomez-Hall. “You text it, and it answers from your own his

Over the past two weeks, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have outlined plans to spend more than $740 billion on capital expenditures this year, which Wall Street is reading as AI infrastructure spending, including data centers and chips. Earlier in the AI boom, investors largely rewarded such big outlays, viewing them as a sign of confidence in the technology’s growth potential. But as we enter the fourth quarter, that enthusiasm seems to be giving w

Here are some last-minute techy Halloween costumes. Effort levels vary. Recursive self-improvement AI leaders like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman have expressed their fears that AI is developing too quickly, but if AI models become capable of “recursive self-improvement,” they’ll be able to advance on their own without human intervention, rendering any efforts to “pace the frontier” futile. I’m not sure how to visually represent the idea of an AI building its

This rout reduced the value of Intel’s holdings by the government by $12 billion, CNBC reports. The Trump administration had the government buy 10% stake over a year ago. Nvidia, which also took a big stake in Intel in 2025, saw its stock drop a bit on Friday as well. Much of the tech industry — especially chipmakers — were caught in the sell-off. Intel’s stock is still a profitable investment for the government so far (and for Nvidia), as it’s up more tha

“I’m really proud of what we accomplished,” Lennon said. “We built an incredible personal assistant with a small team, and learned a ton. I’m grateful to our amazing team, our users, our investors, and everyone who supported us on this journey.” The text-based AI assistant market has exploded over the past year, as the increasingly powerful models that undergird such applications have made them significantly more useful for daily tasks. Ollie, which discus

The proposed arrangement would help Nscale secure financing for the electricity and construction costs of its West Virginia campus. Under what’s known as a residual value guarantee, Nvidia would step in if Nscale defaulted on construction payments, temporarily take over the facility, and help find a buyer and new tenant, according to The Information. Nvidia’s earlier support for cloud providers has mostly covered leases and chip purchases, not construction

Suing on behalf of the NAACP, the Southern Environmental Law Center said the AI company had “installed and operated at least 35 combustion turbines and other sources of air pollution at the Colossus site without ever obtaining the necessary preconstruction or operating air permits.” It also accused xAI of violating the Clean Air Act. xAI sought to have the lawsuit dismissed, claiming that the turbines are exempt from permitting requirements because they’re

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Newsreel, the media company founded by former Forbes and Newsweek reporter Jack Brewster and Brijesh Tiwari, hosted the event, and the lineup was heavy-hitting. Kenneth Schlenker, co-founder of the focus app Opal, sat down for a fireside chat about “the state of attention,” and Aryan Ranjan, who built the campaign management software Baraza, gave a midterm forecast. I, meanwhile, was moderating a panel on data centers. Brewster said the goal was for people

In Mayer’s case, that involved asking an AI tool for help with a school-assigned description of her daughter. For OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, that’s included suggesting that parents create personalized podcasts for their kids’ drive to school and also declaring that he could not imagine parenting without ChatGPT. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has even suggested that it will become increasingly acceptable to meet your social and romantic needs through AI. This all le

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