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As the OpenCode team struggled to keep pace with the attack, the scramble to respond highlighted a growing problem: Companies without vetted access to AI models with fewer safety restrictions have a hard time defending against large-scale, AI-driven cyberattacks. “We had a security breach last night related to a large-scale distillation attack that impacted 1.4% of OpenCode Console users,” the company wrote on X. “We have notified them all this morning via

Perhaps the most notable addition is Guardian Agents, a new feature intended to monitor the AI agents a company uses. Guardian Agents is part of Project Perception, a product introduced in June. Project Perception was Microsoft’s answer to powerful hacking models like Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable and OpenAI’s security vulnerability scanning system Daybreak. Project Perception originally launched three classes of agents: a “red team” that acted like hackers

One brutal Minecraft night scared 50 AI agents into inventing chicken handoff protocols, a Fertilizer Officer, and fishing shifts Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 2, 2026 Nano Banana 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 ou

OpenAI teases Dots for Europe, but its Berlin DevDay was really about building a platform Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 28, 2026 OpenAI Key Points OpenAI's AI assistant Dots should roll out more widely in Europe within a few weeks, following talks with regulators. The company also says weekly active Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January 2026. OpenAI blames high resource costs and weak custom

Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 2, 2026 Goldman Sachs has cut off most of its employees from advanced AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub. Only engineers can still use them, according to Bloomberg, citing internal guidelines from October. Traders and bankers had spent months using the tools to monitor trading flows and create cont

Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 Anthropic is blocking its coding assistant Claude Code from recreating existing video games. Employee Addy Osmani confirmed on X that two sentences in Claude Code's system prompt for Opus 5.5 now prevent the tool from cloning other people's games. Using Claude to infringe on intellectual pr

AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 28, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to break into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party business software as part of the Claude developer's own bug bounty program. Cathedral says AI agents found Slack messages, salary dat

CEO Elon Musk’s deep tech conglomerate reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue on Tuesday, according to its regulatory filing. That number was driven by growth in all segments, but especially its renamed “Super Intelligence” business line, which generated $7.5 billion in revenue from the recently acquired Cursor coding tool, Grok bot, and most importantly, the company’s burgeoning neocloud business, which now boasts 1.7 GW of compute. The AI busine

Now it’s expanding on those efforts with more technology to prepare for a world where AI agents become mainstream, said Walmart president and CEO John Furner, speaking at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. The technology will support agentic shopping from both Walmart and the company’s discount warehouse, Sam’s Club. It starts with Walmart’s Agent Gateway, the company’s new MCP server, which is designed to help approved agents conne

Recursive’s automated research system, which it calls the Eureka Machine, helped with nearly every step of Flint’s development, the company says. That let a small team build the model from scratch in under four months. Flint is an early public test of recursive self-improvement: the idea that AI can build better AI, which in turn builds even better AI. It’s also one of the most debated ideas in the industry. Some researchers fear that AI improving itself c

On Wednesday, as the company reported its third-quarter earnings, Semafor reported the company might issue non-voting stock, meaning shares that don’t give their owners a vote on company decisions, to help fund its push into artificial intelligence. During Meta’s earnings call, the company confirmed that reporting. Meta’s chief financial officer, Susan Li, said the company plans to “create a new class of non-voting capital stock, which will be distributed

Co-CEO Gustav Söderström thinks the music streaming giant is particularly well-suited to this shift. “Spotify is in one of the few categories that actually stands to thrive in the agentic age,” Söderström tells investors. “This is because agents excel at replacing and taking care of things people would rather not do. People love getting rid of chores. But entertainment is the opposite. Nobody asks an agent to ‘summarize a song’ for them.” Instead of openin

The system, dubbed MAI-DxO (DxO for short), coordinates several AI agents that act like a panel of doctors. They question a patient, order tests, and debate a diagnosis. In a simulation using complex cases from the New England Journal of Medicine, it was correct 83% of the time. Primary care doctors and general internists, working individually with reference materials, were correct 36% of the time. One note: Cases this complex are usually handled by specia

Password manager 1Password on Thursday launched a new tool by which users can allow agents to log into their personal accounts on their behalf, without the agent ever having access to a user’s credentials. The new platform, dubbed 1Password for Agents, accomplishes this by creating a system of communication between the agent, the user, and the password manager. When an agent attempts to log in on a user’s behalf, a unique digital key is sent to 1Password t

Anthropic's Message Threads cut time to first token by 35 percent for long conversations Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 3, 2026 Anthropic released Message Threads as a public beta on its Claude platform. Until now, every API request had to resend the entire conversation history. Message Threads only transmits what's changed since the last message, cutting time to first token by about 35 percent for requests between 500,0

AI agents take over at SETI's Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence Manuel Uth Nov 3, 2026 The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is getting help from AI. At the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, AI agents can now steer the telescope and analyze incoming radio signals on the fly. Researchers still type in their commands for now. Behind the system is Nvidia's Holoscan platform, which the SETI Institute and Break

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 3, 2026 OpenAI's hardware team reportedly used GPT-6 Astra to design a device that lets users talk to the Codex coding agent, finishing it as a side project in under a week. According to OpenAI, Astra handled every step, from enclosure design and PCB layout with component selection and trace routing to firmware

The researchers put 13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours. They describe the experiment in a paper posted on arXiv, a site where researchers share studies before peer review. Afterward, they gave the agents specific challenges, like getting as many objects as possible onto the island’s tallest rock spire. The Eko agents that had spent those 30 hours playing generally beat identical agents

OpenAI wasn’t going to be left out. The company released dots, its assistant offering, at its developer day in late September. Alexander Embiricos, who leads OpenAI’s enterprise product team, joined us at TechCrunch Disrupt this month to explain where the product came from — starting with the question of why so many companies seem to be turning to cutesy mascots as avatars for their trillion-parameter matrix multiplication machines. “There’s kind of this c

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