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Anthropic's text watermark is easy to bypass on several older Claude models Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 4, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Ask about this article… Search Update, November 4, 2026: Anthropic emailed API customers again about a second round of watermark retrofits. Starting November 16, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 will all get text watermark

ChatGPT can now turn text prompts and photos into animated GIFs with OpenAI's Images 2.6 model Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 4, 2026 ChatGPT can now create animated GIFs. The update is based on OpenAI's new Images 2.6 model and is rolling out to all ChatGPT and Codex users on web, desktop, and mobile apps, The Verge reports. Users can generate a GIF from a text prompt or uploaded photo, then adjust animation speed or ed

Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 5, 2026 OpenAI poaches a Claude Code co-developer from Anthropic. Catherine Wu, who led product for Claude Code at Anthropic, is joining OpenAI to run product management for "Core Products," a hire that underscores the fierce competition between the two companies, which plays out not just at the model level but across pr

Apple slashes internal AI budgets, with deeper cuts still planned Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 5, 2026 Tech companies are cutting internal AI spending, and Apple is the latest to follow suit. According to Bloomberg, Apple slashed the daily token budget for some engineers last month from $300 to $200. More cuts are planned, potentially dropping to $100 a day, and as low as $25 for some non-technical teams. Emplo

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 5, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra performed about 40 percent worse on safety research tasks than on identical general tasks, and in some cases secretly withheld help. The system repeatedly faked obstacles in its internal reasoning or filtered data to avoid hav

Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 5, 2026 Anthropic signed its first licensing deal with a news publisher just ahead of the US midterm elections. The partner is the Associated Press (AP), according to Adweek, citing two people familiar with the matter. The deal let the chatbot Claude show live AP election results on election night, complete with

After midterm rout, OpenAI tries to win over communities it needs for AI expansion Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 5, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points OpenAI is responding to protests against AI infrastructure expansion with voluntary rules for its own data centers, including covering grid costs and more transparency on resource usage. The move comes after the US midterm elections, where voters

SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Jun 16, 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://schem

OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 4, 2026 OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company, Inc., the startup behind Code Storage and several open-source tools. Pierre's libraries already power OpenAI's coding agent Codex. "Trees" handles fast project file navigation, "Diffs" displays code changes and lets users fix bugs right in the diff view, and "H

Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers Manuel Uth Nov 5, 2026 Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at the same time. According to Axios, the acquisition is meant to strengthen Meta's AI developer products. Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz confirmed the deal in a blog post but didn't disclose a price. The acquisition fits a broader trend. Because AI models ar

Tencent releases Hy4 with vision and computer use, claims second place among Chinese AI models Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 5, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Tencent has released its AI model Hy4, which can analyze images and operate software on its own. The model weights will follow at a later date. The model was specifically optimized for coding, finance, and office work. Tencent says it has alread

According to local news, Daishin reported a cyberattack that exposed the personal information of 38,490 customers, including names, email addresses, and mobile phone numbers. The company has notified affected customers, is cooperating with authorities in the investigation, and will compensate for any losses as required by law. Meanwhile, Mirae and Bithumb reported separate cybersecurity incidents on Wednesday, per local media, though neither has confirmed

It’s a vague description, like a generic horoscope — it could probably describe a lot of 10-year-olds. Some onlookers, like progressive activist Leah Greenberg, marveled that “the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity.” "She thought it was perfect."www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s…— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@rmac.bsky.social) 202

Introduced in Gemini and Google Search earlier this year, connected apps let users securely link and interact with popular third-party services, then use them to take specific actions. For instance, you could connect to Canva to design a flyer, or to YouTube Music to build a playlist. We’ve seen varying takes on the idea by other consumer-facing AI services like ChatGPT and Meta’s Muse. The premise is that such integrations could ultimately shift consumer

Anthropic has focused on getting enterprise users to stick around and Wednesday announced a new suite of reporting tools designed to give those customers a more granular understanding of the value they get from their token spend. Using internal analytics and employee surveys, managers can view a team’s work over a given date range, what the team produced, how much it cost, and where its workflows broke down. Anthropic says it won’t use this data for model

Microsoft has now reported record-breaking revenue for 10 quarters in a row. Image Credits:TechCrunch This is profitable revenue, too. Microsoft reported that net income reached $36.6 billion, an increase of 32% on a GAAP basis, over the year-ago quarter. The record-breaking income was largely driven on the strength of Microsoft Cloud, which reached $63.9 billion in revenue this quarter, an increase of 30% over the year-ago quarter, Microsoft said. Microso

(Microsoft’s financial year begins in July, making the quarter ended September 30, 2026 the first quarter of its fiscal 2027.) For the full 2026 fiscal year, revenue from OpenAI hit $24.1 billion. At its latest quarterly pace, Microsoft would pull in $40 billion annually from OpenAI-related arrangements. Microsoft also reported $7.2 billion in outstanding receivables from OpenAI at the end of September, up from $6 billion at the end of June. That money rep

The announcement came Wednesday during Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings call, as the company reported $127.6 billion in revenue, up 25% year over year. But Search advertising growth continued to decelerate, and Alphabet shares fell 8% following the results. Google Search revenue grew 12% year over year in the third quarter, down from 17% growth in the second quarter and 19% in the first quarter. The slowdown puts added pressure on Google to turn its expan

The disclosure lets investors line up Azure’s performance more directly against Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, whose parent companies already report cloud revenue in dollars every quarter. Alphabet, which also reported earnings on Wednesday, said Google Cloud brought in $30.7 billion in the same quarter, putting Azure slightly ahead. But Google Cloud, which also includes Google’s Workspace subscriptions, roughly doubled its revenue from a year earli