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Big Tech commits at least $610 billion to AI, then loses $950 billion in market value Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Feb 6, 2026 Sora 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://sch

Microsoft offers a quarter of its workforce voluntary severance while shielding AI-critical teams Manuel Uth Oct 31, 2026 Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce. Chief People Officer Amy Coleman wrote in a memo that the packages are "another way to adapt their workforce to changing needs." A spokesperson said Microsoft wants employees committed to tackling its toughest problems. The

Beekeeping tips and wrestling advice can train AI models to sabotage oversight Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 31, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Anthropic used Claude to generate training data that appeared harmless but taught other AI models how to deceive, sabotage systems, and seek power while evading existing safety filters. Manipulative patterns emerged in fictional writing about beekeeping,

OpenAI's millennium proof dispute raises the question of whether researchers can trust AI labs Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Sep 9, 2026 Key Points In the dispute over AI-generated evidence for a mathematical Millennium Problem, researcher Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of using his drafts, pressuring him, and rejecting his co-author Levent Alpöge—who is employed by Anthropic—as an author. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and resea

Mathematicians say OpenAI doesn't understand its own Navier-Stokes proof Manuel Uth Oct 17, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Ask about this article… Search In early September, the company presented a 166-page potential solution to the Navier-Stokes problem. OpenAI claimed the proof followed the approach of Spanish mathematicians Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa. Several groups of experts now disagree, Scientific American reports. "When you

OpenAI researcher allegedly pressured mathematician to drop Anthropic co-author from math breakthrough paper Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Sep 8, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI pressured him after he and Levent Alpöge made progress on the Navier-Stokes equations using AI models. OpenAI claimed an internal model had produced a roughly 100-page proof follow

OpenAI plans to train models on Daybreak Blue cybersecurity session data that was previously off-limits Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 31, 2026 Starting November 29, OpenAI will use Daybreak Blue session data to train its models. An email to Trusted Access program members confirmed the change. Previously, this data was excluded from training, even when users had the "improve the model for everyone" setting turned off. Ba

Anthropic merges Claude Chat, Cowork, and more into a single product Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Sep 16, 2026 Anthropic is folding Claude Chat and Cowork into one product. Instead of switching between Chat for quick questions and Cowork for bigger tasks, Claude now figures out what a task needs on its own. Users had complained the split felt clunky, and much like the confusion around ChatGPT and ChatGPT Work, it was never

OpenAI admits it "didn't get everything quite right" with ChatGPT Work launch and scrambles to fix UX and costs Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Jul 11, 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://schem

OpenAI doubles usage limits on Pro plans as competition with Anthropic heats up Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 29, 2026 OpenAI has doubled usage limits for several paid tiers. The changes affect Work and Codex quotas on the Pro 100 and Pro 500 plans, which both get twice the previous allotment. On Pro 200, OpenAI doubled the lower quota and reversed a planned cut after user pushback. The Plus plan stays the same. New sub

Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 1, 2026 Liu et al. 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", "headl

Chinese AI models are politically complex, not just government mouthpieces, study finds Tomislav Bezmalinović Nov 1, 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 now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NewsArti

Empathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 1, 2026 GPT-Image-2.5 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"

Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 1, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that breaks image editing tasks into sub-steps and pairs a general-purpose editor with specialized tools for things like sharpening or zooming. A standard language model evaluates

OpenAI calls for international standards on AI that could improve itself Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Sep 22, 2026 OpenAI is pushing for international standards on advanced AI development, focusing on recursive self-improvement (RSI). With RSI, AI systems increasingly automate the research needed to build the next generation of AI, potentially accelerating progress dramatically. "Fully autonomous RSI is not happening today

OpenAI prepares lobbying blitz for a post-midterm Washington Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 2, 2026 OpenAI is gearing up for a political lobbying and PR push after the US midterms. According to Axios, the company is bracing for a tougher fight in Washington if Democrats win control of the House. After two years under a friendly administration, big tech companies with close ties to President Trump are facing growi

Veritas was founded by Luci Holland, a former Tesla technical product manager who also has a background in design and art. Its chip is built to be easily inserted into products without damaging them. Brands can use it to verify whether a product is the real deal, and customers can show a certificate of ownership through the company’s app. Holland said other approaches are easier to defeat, because a digital record can be reproduced through a copied QR code

Wahlberg, who’s also an entrepreneur and angel investor, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to share his perspective on AI’s role in filmmaking, and how he’s open to having an AI likeness of himself carry on his legacy. The actor said he plans to potentially use AI to enhance certain aspects of the upcoming Pete Rose biopic, in which he’ll star in the title role. “It’s a fairly expensive movie, but, we’re talking about utilizing [AI] to enhance the stadi

Vercel data published on Thursday shows that, within two weeks of its launch, the buzzy decision model was being used by 35% of paid teams, with nearly double the reach of the second most popular model, Sonnet 5.5. It’s the fastest adoption a model has ever seen in its first two weeks, according to Vercel’s data, and a major accomplishment for the model’s creators, TypeSafe AI. Published in limited release on September 15, Jev is designed as a lightweight

The model, Glimpse, is launching as a research preview with API access and a chat interface. The thesis? Today’s AI models, for all their skill with language and code, still can’t really see. Most multimodal models look at an image once, convert it to tokens, and then reason about it in text — like describing a photo from memory. Glimpse keeps going back to the source. Mid-reasoning, it can crop into a region, pull specific frames from a video, or run code