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ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live uses conversational context to stop voice agents from cutting off callers mid-sentence View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 12, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Elevenlabs has released Scribe v3 and Scribe v3 Live, two speech recognition models built for messy audio situations like crosstalk and background noise, covering both pre-recorded files and real-time use. Benchmarks from Artificial Anal

Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after espionage scandal wipes out $1.4 trillion in market value View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 12, 2026 Jensen Huang resigned as CEO, president, and board member of Nvidia effective immediately, according to a statement on November 12, 2026. The move came after the Wall Street Journal reported that the board was planning to fire Huang following revelations about two extramarital affairs, one of them

OpenAI’s data suggests that frontier models are hiding their thoughts because developers optimize for capability and compute View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 12, 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. Su

Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen outscores the bigger Argon just four weeks after its launch View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 12, 2026 Key Points Google has released Gemini 4 Hydrogen, an AI model for everyday coding and agentic workflows that is meant to replace Gemini 3.8 Flash and outperforms the larger Argon in benchmarks. The model offers four reasoning levels, a one-million-token context window for both input and output, and costs $1.50 pe

Claude Meetings lets Anthropic's AI join your video calls View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 12, 2026 Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, a feature that puts Claude into video calls as a visible participant. During a call, Claude can answer questions, generate documents and whiteboards, and log notes and action items, responding in text by default and accessing connected tools when granted permission. All notes, transcripts, and document

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A new AI startup formed from the cast-offs of some of the industry’s biggest, most ethically dubious players says it’s definitely pursuing building the tech with humanity’s best interests in mind. Called Humans& — that’s its actual name, not a typo — the outfit’s founders say their vision is to build AI that empowers people instead of trying to replace their jobs, the New York Times repor

Nick Lachance / Toronto Star via Getty Images The San Diego Comic Con has quietly updated its policy to ban AI-generated art, 404 Media reports, providing a major victory to artists. The about-face is a welcome surprise. Until now, the massive convention — which has become a melting pot of all kinds of pop entertainment beyond the comic medium, with everyone ranging from game developers to movie studios using it as a platform to tease new content — has all

Kristi Noem / The White House via X The White House published an image on X in which the face of a protester had been altered using AI to depict her weeping during her arrest — instead of striking a stoic pose, as she actually looked during the event. The woman in the image, civil rights attorney and organizer Nekima Levy Armstrong, was arrested this week after interrupting a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota. The protesters were calling for the resign

Getty / Futurism Last week, a University of Alaska, Fairbanks undergraduate student was detained by police after ripping off pieces of AI-generated art that were hung up at a student art exhibit — and chewing them up in protest. As the school’s student newspaper The Sun Star reported, undergraduate student Graham Granger was arrested for criminal mischief after masticating at least 57 of the 160 images that had been carefully arranged by fine arts student

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty Images In case you needed further evidence that we’re living in the worst version of a cyberpunk dystopia, immigration officers are now scanning civilians’ faces to index them in a government database. Don’t take our word for it — just listen to the officers themselves. A video shared by freelance journalist Brian Allen appears to show a masked Immigration and Customs Enforceme

Reddit via Facebook For years now, Facebook’s feeds have been drowned out by an unrelenting tidal wave of AI slop, turning the platform — which feels like it’s long been abandoned by practically anybody under the age of 65 — into an unrecognizable digital hellscape. It’s already been two years since we came across a picture of “shrimp Jesus” for the first time, an early form of AI-generated junk that foreshadowed an even more nonsensical future, culminatin

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Bosses being severely disconnected from the needs of their employees is a tale as old as time. But it sure feels like the AI craze has driven them to lock themselves in ever taller ivory towers, as employees are told that the tech is going to make their jobs easier at the same time it’s being used to replace them. Now, a new survey highlighted by the Wall Street Journal illustrates this g

Getty / Futurism ChatGPT may be an excellent tool in case your strongly-worded email to your landlord about that ceiling leak needs a second pair of eyes. It also excels at coming up with a rough first draft for non-mission-critical writing, allowing you to carefully pick it apart and refine it. But like all of its competitors, ChatGPT is plagued by plenty of well-documented shortcomings as well, from rampant hallucinations to a sycophantic tone that can e

Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images Just over three years ago, OpenAI opened the floodgates with the launch of ChatGPT. The frantic industry-wide race that followed has resulted in soaring valuations for AI companies, tens of billions of dollars invested in data center infrastructure — and plenty of skepticism as well. For one, experts have pointed out that OpenAI’s business fundamentals are inherently different from those of its competitors like Google.

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Something strange is happening with ManyVids, an OnlyFans-like porn platform with millions of users. For roughly the past half-year, its official account on X and on its own website have been posting bizarre, feverishly spiritual rants on topics ranging from aliens to numerology, along with absurd AI-generated images and videos that depict its CEO Bella French, 404 Media reports, What’s m

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Thanks to scores of competing AI systems clogging up online application portals, applying for a new job in 2026 can feel more like applying for a bank loan than seeking a job. At least, that’s what a group of disgruntled job seekers is claiming in a lawsuit against an AI screening company called Eightfold AI. According to the New York Times, the plaintiffs allege that Eightfold’s employme

Gaston Paris / Contributor A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language models “are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity” — that level of complexity being, crucially, pretty low. The paper, which has not been peer reviewed, was written by Vishal Sikka, a former CTO at the German software giant SAP, and his son Varin Sikka. Sikka sen

Futurism Generative AI relies on a massive body of training material, primarily made up of human-authored content haphazardly scraped from the internet. Scientists are still trying to better understand what will happen when these AI models run out of that content and have to rely on synthetic, AI-generated data instead, closing a potentially dangerous loop. Studies have found that AI models start cannibalizing this AI-generated data, which can eventually t

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images In a memo sent out to staff last month, OpenAI CEO issued a “code red” urging employees to double down on improving the company’s flagship product ChatGPT, as financial pressure loomed and competitors gained ground. The company continues to frantically chase some much-needed revenue. Despite Altman calling ads a “last resort for us as a business model” in 2024, the company announced earlier this month that ChatGPT will soon sta

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The Department of Defense might be the first government agency to roll out a department-wide AI chatbot, but the Department of Transportation is about to be the first to draft actual binding regulations with the tech. According to a new investigation by ProPublica, the top transportation agency has tapped Google Gemini to help write new regulations affecting aviation, automotive, railroad