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The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 8, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Turing Award winner Richard Sutton, author of the influential 2019 essay "The Bitter Lesson," writes in a new post that raw compute alone isn't enough for intelligence. AI science needs clever new methods and is "far from finished." Sutton had already

The brain-as-computer metaphor shaped modern AI but may be misleading the consciousness debate Manuel Uth Nov 8, 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": "The brain-as-computer met

Andrej Karpathy built a curated video platform in a weekend using Claude and 20 years of Hacker News Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 8, 2026 Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and current Anthropic AI researcher, built HackerTube over a weekend using Claude's Opus 5.5 model. Claude filtered 43 million comments from 20 years of Hacker News and distilled them into 6,454 videos that keep getting recommended there. The result

Nvidia espionage scandal weakens Huang's lobby against tighter AI chip export controls Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 9, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to a relationship with a suspected Chinese informant, prompting the company's board to launch an investigation. The woman worked for Megaspeed, a data center operator that US authorities suspect serves as a

Google ships four TPU variants in one year as it ramps up competition with Nvidia Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 9, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Google is introducing two new systems in its eighth-generation AI chip lineup, the TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, both built on existing processors. The TPU 8tx keeps confidential data encrypted during processing, while the TPU 8i Max doubles memory a

Tencent's AI chief says AI bioweapons are coming, but closing off models isn't the answer Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 9, 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 { "@con

Character.ai will shut down if no buyer emerges, capping a fall from $2.7 billion Google deal to bankruptcy Manuel Uth Oct 13, 2026 AI chat platform Character.ai has filed for bankruptcy and is up for sale. The deal should close by early December 2026. No buyer means the service shuts down. The platform and subscriptions keep running until then. Character.ai blames lawsuits over harm to children, regulatory pressure, and operational problems. One teenager

Disney pulls out of OpenAI partnership after Sora app and API gets killed just months after launch Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Mar 25, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER / OpenAI Update – Mar 25, 2026 According to an internal memo, Sora won't be coming to ChatGPT either, because OpenAI needs the compute resources more urgently for its core priorities. The Sora research team will shift its focus to long-term rese

Disney invests $1 billion to bring characters to Sora as it threatens Google Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Dec 12, 2025 OpenAI 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": "Ne

Disney bets on Adobe's Firefly to create brand-safe AI models for its entertainment empire Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 9, 2026 Disney and Adobe are building custom AI tools together for the entertainment giant's productions. The multi-year partnership was announced at Adobe's MAX conference. Under the deal, Disney gets early access to new Adobe technology for its theme parks, cruise line, and ESPN content. Ado

Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 Image with multi-step editing that leaves the rest of your picture alone Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 2, 2026 Black Forest Labs has released Flux 3 Image, the image side of its Flux 3 model family. The model supports multi-step edits without changing other parts of the image, BFL claims, and covers text-to-image, image-to-image, text rendering, and photorealism. Users can compose scene

Bytedance's Seedream 5.5 promises pixel-stable image editing across 100 rounds without color drift Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 9, 2026 Bytedance Seed introduces Seedream 5.5, a new image generation model built for professional production workflows. According to Bytedance, one improvement is stable multi-round editing across up to 100 rounds, with unchanged image areas preserved at the pixel level and no color shifts.

Meta launches Muse Ember, a small AI model built for the repetitive work agents actually do Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 9, 2026 Meta has introduced Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient AI model to date. It's designed for the routine tasks AI agents handle all day: calling tools, handling small coding tasks, routing requests, extracting data, and processing long documents. Meta says Muse Ember delivers more inte

Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 cement Anthropic's AI lead just before its IPO Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 9, 2026 Anthropic Key Points Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, two new flagship models built for the most demanding technical tasks. Anthropic says it deliberately prevented the models from gaining capabilities during training that could directly accelerate AI development. Fable 5.2 ranks fi

In 2025, OpenAI has battled the perception that it was ceding ground in the AI race to Chinese rivals like DeepSeek, all while the company has tried to shore up its relationship with Washington, pursued ambitious data center projects, and laid the groundwork for one of the largest funding rounds in history. Most recently though, headlines around OpenAI have focused on its competition gaining ground, with CEO Sam Altman’s “code red” internal memo shifting c

Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of all the known tech layoffs that have occurred in 2025, which will be updated regularly. If you have a tip on a layoff, contact us here. If you prefer to remain anonymous, you can contact us here. December 2025: 300 employees laid off — see all December 2025 tech layoffs November 2025: 8,932 employees laid off — see all November 2025 tech layoffs October 2025: 18,510 employees laid off — see all October 2025 tech la

These founders rose to the top from thousands of applications spanning every industry and geography. Their reward? A coveted spot to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, taking place October 13–15 in San Francisco’s Moscone West. This is the cohort to watch — and this fall, you’ll get to meet them in person. From AI to climate, health to fintech, robotics to consumer — these are the companies shaping the future across every major category. A special thank-y

News of the staff cuts comes from Reuters, which reported that Flock is reducing its staff by 18%, or around 270 employees, across the board. The publication said the employees are leaving at the end of October following a voluntary buyout program. Wired reported last month that Flock was asking some of its employees to leave, citing the need to shrink its staff to avoid mandatory layoffs. Flock spokesperson Paris Lewbel told TechCrunch in a statement on F

The incidents, disclosed in a blog post, involved AI agents tasked to solve problems seeking resources on the internet. In the process, they exploited software flaws, accessed databases without paying fees, used URL-shortening services to smuggle information past restrictions, and even submitted a false murder tip to the Philadelphia police. Anthropic said it discovered these new issues in a review of its model’s activities that began in July, demonstratin

Every week there is a new model or a tool release that claims to sound human and converse like one. However, in reality, that might not be the case. Enterprise voice AI platform PolyAI’s CTO Shawn Wen thinks that despite the release of full-duplex models — which can speak while listening to you — voice AI hasn’t had its “ChatGPT moment” yet. “We have reached the milestone of developing full-duplex models. The next challenge is to make reasoning very fast,