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Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 7, 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. Sub

State propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip away Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 7, 2026 Nous Research Key Points Nous Research fine-tuned Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B to remove Chinese state propaganda from the model's responses. Supervised fine-tuning on 53 million tokens cut the propaganda rate from 22 to under one percent without hurting the model's general capabilities. Accordi

The gap between open and closed AI models in cyber capabilities keeps shrinking Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 7, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Ask about this article… Search AI agents can break into realistic corporate networks on their own, Vals AI finds The Vals CyberOffense benchmark simulates realistic corporate networks to test this. Each agent operates solo on an isolated attack machine, starting wi

Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small drops 316 F-bombs across benchmark runs Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 7, 2026 Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small swears in its internal chain of thought. Researchers at Vals AI read the model's thinking logs from 2,655 runs across 13 benchmarks and found "fuck" or variations in 50 runs, totaling 316 instances. 241 came from just two runs that spiraled out of control. In one, tasked wit

AI auditors catch most agent misbehavior but flood reviewers with false alarms, new study finds Manuel Uth Nov 7, 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": "NewsArticle

OpenAI lands an $11 billion funding round, but has to court dentists for more capital Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 7, 2026 OpenAI has received roughly $11 billion in new funding, the first tranche of a round valuing the company at $1.25 trillion. The money was wired on Friday, Bloomberg reports. The full round could grow to $20 billion, with the rest expected in the coming weeks. OpenAI originally sought $30 billion at

Anthropic increases revenue sevenfold, hits annualized rate above $65 billion Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Aug 18, 2026 Anthropic has hit an annualized revenue rate above $65 billion, based on performance through the end of July 2026, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke to Bloomberg. That's a sevenfold jump from a year earlier. The company disclosed the figures in a regular investor update, one source sa

Anthropic pushes ahead with pre-Thanksgiving IPO despite tech selloff, accepts lower valuation Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 7, 2026 Anthropic is pressing ahead with its IPO despite the tech selloff, accepting a lower valuation. The Claude developer wants to go public before Thanksgiving and raise $80–100 billion at a $1.25–1.75 trillion valuation, according to investors cited by the Financial Times. That tops the curre

AI coding agents still need human cleanup on nearly three out of four tasks in a real-world test Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 8, 2026 ChatGPT-5.6 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 { "@contex

The decision means that schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine. Chris Phillips, vice president for education at Google, told The New York Times that “Search and AI are deeply integrated,” which means that if a school chooses to restrict AI altogether, students “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicate

Looking at the compute margins makes the picture even worse. In the new quarter, compute took up 58% of the company’s revenue, up from 48% the quarter before. At a moment when the company could win over IPO investors by showing margins improving, they’re getting worse. A chart in the filing shows this even more clearly, tracking the company’s revenue for every dollar spent on compute. Since the start of 2025, it’s been steadily growing, peaking at just ove

Users can choose from curated themes featuring clips from shows and movies, based on their mood, viewing preferences, how much time they have, or what’s new and trending. Themes include “something light,” “scare me,” “family movie night,” “quick watches,” and more. The addition of the new tab suggests that Netflix wants to make its growing library easier to navigate while shifting discovery away from an experience where users are endlessly scrolling throug

Yet retail investors were lukewarm on the company on Tuesday, with the stock trading slightly down. That’s because Palantir’s enterprise sales, its big growth area, showed signs of slowing. First, the good news for the company’s investors. Revenue grew 96% from a year earlier, and 20% from the previous quarter, to $2.31 billion, beating analysts’ expectations of $2.18 billion. It was the first time Palantir has topped $2 billion in a quarter. Palantir also

The San Francisco-based VC firm filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week to raise $360 million for its third flagship fund, matching the size of its previous fund raised in 2024, and another $130 million for a separate vehicle called Ballistic Ventures Fund B. Neither fund had recorded any sales at the time of filing. The fundraising plans come as the growing use of artificial intelligence has raised concerns about more sophisticate

FlashProve could also be used to verify claims by third parties that a specific task was done by an advanced model. “A developer might claim that their software library was scanned for vulnerabilities by a frontier cybersecurity model, or a company might claim that its business plan was given the go-ahead by an appropriate model,” the researchers write. “How can a user verify these claims?” To work, the system requires AI labs to publish a “fingerprint” of

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Chris Phillips, vice president for education at Google, told The New York Times that “Search and AI are deeply integrated,” so if a student’s school doesn’t opt in to using AI tools like Gemini, then students “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.” Even as Google made this announcement on a busy Election Day, several left-leaning politicians took time to speak up about their concerns.

After just a day with Apple’s Siri Recaps feature on my Apple Watch, I can already see how its value may ultimately outweigh any creepiness factor that comes from the AI-powered audio recording and summarization it provides. However, I also see areas where AI-assisted note-taking can go too far, capturing things that aren’t worth remembering, and where there’s room for improvement. The first two, sound and song detection, don’t represent potential privacy

DuckDuckGo, a company that focuses on user privacy by limiting data collection, clearly sees this as a moment to make inroads in education, where Google has historically dominated. According to figures Google has published in previous years, there are around 50 million Chromebooks in schools, used by students and educators, and its Google Classroom platform serves over 150 million users globally. On X, DuckDuckGo’s founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, pointe

The essay comes on the heels of a stunning Democratic victory in the midterm elections, in which Democrats flipped control of Congress amid widespread voter frustration over the cost of living. Kate Brennan, who leads AI and corporate power policy at the AI Now Institute, told TechCrunch that Lehane’s rhetoric marks a notable shift from OpenAI’s policy agenda last year, which focused on accelerating AI development, reducing regulatory barriers, and expandi