Latest AI News

Building on its predecessors’ strengthsGemini 2.5 builds upon the core strengths of earlier Gemini models, including native multimodality and a long context window. 2.5 Pro launches with a one million token context window, with plans to expand this to two million tokens soon. This enables the model to comprehend vast datasets and handle complex problems from diverse information sources, spanning text, audio, images, video, and even entire code repositories

OpenAI enters the cybersecurity market with two Daybreak products View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 13, 2026 OpenAI has launched two security products under its Daybreak brand. The first, Daybreak Red Team, is available in Early Access and uses AI agents to automatically probe web applications for vulnerabilities by analyzing source code and app context to map out attack paths. The tool also verifies reported security flaws from bug bou

Google's "Call for Me" lets Gemini phone businesses for you View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Sep 25, 2026 Google is testing "Call for Me," a feature that lets Gemini call businesses on a user's behalf, TechCrunch reports. For now, only Pixel 11 owners in the US with a paid Gemini subscription can use it, and they also need the beta version of Google's Phone app. According to Google, Gemini can pass along personal information that users hav

Meta's Muse now calls businesses for you, but many companies might just hang up on the AI View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 13, 2026 Meta's AI agent Muse can now place calls to US businesses on behalf of its users. The feature, tested in September, is available to all paying Muse subscribers in the US, turning what Google Duplex demoed to widespread amazement in 2018 into a standard capability of always-on AI agents. Meta AI chief Alexa

Anthropic's IPO is six times oversubscribed and on track to become the largest public offering in history View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 13, 2026 Anthropic is on track for the largest IPO ever, with orders exceeding available shares by a factor of six. That's according to Bloomberg. The Claude developer and its co-founders aim to raise up to $64.4 billion through the public offering and another $26 billion via a private placement, wh

Former OpenAI researcher says he found Nvidia Blackwell fingerprints hidden inside six Chinese AI models View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 13, 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

An AI boss fired its first employee but only after humans reminded it of its own rules Aug 23, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points AI agent Luna, which runs a store in San Francisco for Andon Labs, decided for the first time to fire a human employee after repeated tardiness and other issues. Luna needed a human nudge to get there. Her self-written rulebook had dropped out of her memory, and she had largely tolerated the repeated tardine

California Governor Newsom signs executive order demanding "kill switch" for AI models View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Sep 18, 2026 California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to speed up independent oversight of AI companies and push for a "kill switch" for AI models. The order responds to recent incidents like the Hugging Face attack. An expert panel has two months to deliver recommendations, including a requirement for AI co

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise with enhanced security, privacy and speed View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Aug 28, 2023 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

Nearly 70 percent of US agencies use generative AI, and unions are finally catching up with guardrails Nov 13, 2026 US public-sector unions are winning more protections against AI surveillance and automation-driven job losses. The issue is growing more urgent as nearly 70 percent of US government agencies already use generative AI, according to an Ernst and Young survey. The wins are piling up nationwide. After a strike vote in October, IFPTE Local 21 in O

Anthropic wants to do for physical hardware what its Model Context Protocol did for software Aug 29, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Anthropic is building the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a unified interface that lets AI agents read data from and control physical devices like microscopes and robotic arms in labs and factories. The company uses standardized drivers that make every device discoverable in a common format. According t

Anthropic launches "Skills" so Claude can automatically pick prompts for specialized tasks View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 16, 2025 Anthropic 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

Anthropic's new open protocol lets AI systems tap into any data source View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 25, 2024 Anthropic 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

Anthropic's Claude for Manufacturing plugs AI directly into factory software to automate industrial workflows Nov 13, 2026 Anthropic has released Claude for Manufacturing, a plugin giving the AI direct access to industrial software to automate factory workflows. The new solution connects via four universal interfaces to Autodesk Fusion, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft 365, and Infor. Other systems can be integrated through file exports to Microsoft 365. With 17

The problems, which started Thursday, were initially flagged as affecting the company’s services in the U.S. and the Americas, but quickly spread around the world, as engineers struggled to recover downed servers. What began as an Outlook email and Teams video conferencing outage soon developed into a full blown meltdown, affecting the company’s cloud services for both consumer and business email, files, and documents. The outage also knocked out the compa

if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> Microsoft’s unified Copilot could help enterprises standardize how employees interact with AI across productivity, business applications, data and development tools, while giving CIOs greater visibility into AI application sprawl and consumption costs, analysts say. endif; ?> Credit: Microsoft Generative AIMicrosoft 365Collaboration SoftwareProductivity SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceOffice SuitesMicrosoft

Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: September 2026 Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira Sift is a free, open-source command line tool that searches for passwords, API keys, and other sensitive data ac

GitHub’s AI agent found 24 Android app vulnerabilities GitHub Security Lab researcher Kevin Stubbings built custom AI-driven audit workflows, called taskflows, on top of the lab’s open source Taskflow Agent, and used them to find and report more than 20 vulnerabilities in Android apps. Two of the disclosed bugs show what’s at stake. In OsmAnd, a navigation app with over 10 million downloads on the Play Store, an exported activity called MapActivity accepte

Claude Sonnet 5.5 gets faster without a price hike Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model for coding and office work. The company says it responds more than 30% faster than its predecessor and uses fewer tokens to complete many tasks, reducing the cost per task without changing its listed API price. The model is available with zero data retention and through Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Developers can select it on t

Palo Alto Networks and NVIDIA want tighter control over AI agents Palo Alto Networks is expanding its work with NVIDIA to help companies control what AI agents can access and do. The collaboration covers agent activity, network traffic and identity management through NVIDIA’s Open Agent Safety Platform reference design. Palo Alto Networks Securing Agents within NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform (Source: Palo Alto Networks) AI agents can write code, retriev