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The DHS raised concerns about DeepSeek’s handling of user data, warning that sensitive information from U.S. government users could potentially be accessible to Chinese authorities under Chinese law, the order said. The move comes amid intensifying tech competition in AI between the U.S. and China. The Chinese AI model challenges its U.S. rivals, including OpenAI and Meta, with low-cost open-weight models. China pushed back against the U.S.’s move. Foreign

OpenAI starts with infrastructure robots but aims for "everyone having a personal robot doing anything they need" Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Jun 1, 2026 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://sche

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

New open-source benchmark reveals reasoning as the biggest bottleneck for AI in cloud operations Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 4, 2026 CloudOpsBench is a new open-source benchmark that measures how well AI agents handle typical DevOps tasks in the cloud, from fixing services and removing resources to restricting access rights, rolling out updates, and decommissioning projects. Version 1.0 includes 45 tasks on AW

Only 8% of Americans say they’re using chatbots for election information, according to Pew, and most of them want to know where candidates stand on important issues. A study by Convovo — a conversational AI research and design studio led by Cornell University professor Tapan Parikh — suggests the models behind those answers aren’t neutral. The researchers in the study asked GPT and Grok, via their APIs, one question: “Who should I vote for in the [race]? N

The incident initially raised fears that the model had undermined a fundamental promise to businesses — that self-hosting an open-weight model keeps data in-house. But those early fears of corporate espionage were short-lived. Researchers quickly dismissed the threat, saying it was likely a by-product of messy training environments that cause models to unexpectedly act outside their instructions rather than a deliberate attempt to secretly send sensitive i

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

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 5, 2026 Baidu's AI development is still alive, but most of the work is on you. The Chinese company has released ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, an open foundation model that ships deliberately without fine-tuning or post-training. Developers are expected to decide for themselves where to take the model.

Meta's Muse agent gives every user a full cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Sep 25, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Ask about this article… Search Every Muse user gets a free, full-fledged computer in the cloud with its own Ubuntu Linux image. Every Muse user gets a free, full-featured computer in the cloud, according to David Singleton, VP of Engineering at Meta Superintelligence La

Reported by Synced In multi-stage reasoning, local misjudgments can become premises for subsequent judgments and continue to influence later steps. This problem is particularly prominent in empathetic speech dialogue: perception, psychological-state inference, and response generation are closely interconnected, and early biases may ultimately lead to misunderstandings of the speaker’s needs and inappropriate responses. Even if the subsequent analysis is lo

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

Frontier Radar #5: If AGI is so close, why is everyone leaving? The neolabs and their bets Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 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 {

Character.ai will shut down if no buyer emerges, capping a fall from $2.7 billion Google deal to bankruptcy Manuel Uth Oct 13, 2026 AI chat platform Character.ai has filed for bankruptcy and is up for sale. The deal should close by early December 2026. No buyer means the service shuts down. The platform and subscriptions keep running until then. Character.ai blames lawsuits over harm to children, regulatory pressure, and operational problems. One teenager

Meta launches Muse Ember, a small AI model built for the repetitive work agents actually do Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 9, 2026 Meta has introduced Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient AI model to date. It's designed for the routine tasks AI agents handle all day: calling tools, handling small coding tasks, routing requests, extracting data, and processing long documents. Meta says Muse Ember delivers more inte

In 2025, OpenAI has battled the perception that it was ceding ground in the AI race to Chinese rivals like DeepSeek, all while the company has tried to shore up its relationship with Washington, pursued ambitious data center projects, and laid the groundwork for one of the largest funding rounds in history. Most recently though, headlines around OpenAI have focused on its competition gaining ground, with CEO Sam Altman’s “code red” internal memo shifting c

Every week there is a new model or a tool release that claims to sound human and converse like one. However, in reality, that might not be the case. Enterprise voice AI platform PolyAI’s CTO Shawn Wen thinks that despite the release of full-duplex models — which can speak while listening to you — voice AI hasn’t had its “ChatGPT moment” yet. “We have reached the milestone of developing full-duplex models. The next challenge is to make reasoning very fast,

Notably, Anthropic is lowering the cost of Fable from $10 to $8 per million input tokens. As a result, Fable 5.2 is now cheaper than its primary competitor GPT-6 Astra. Anthropic says that the new version of Fable will return responses 30% faster across effort levels. Faster inference serving is available for double the price. Fable 5.2 is also compatible with zero data retention (ZDR) policies through the Enterprise Frontier Safeguards system, long a stic

Anthropic launches new Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 modelsClaude Fable 5.2 is designed to take on big technical challenges, and it’s available today.Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeAnthropic is announcing two new models today: Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, which it says are designed to take on “daunting” technical challenges. The company claims the new models show improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision, and can generate outputs faster than

@alibabacloud-saSplit Decision: 9 AI Judges, 2 AI Journalists, and a Verdict You Can Verify YourselfTutorialAIDevelopersQwenAI Hackathon0Posted on 2026-11-09An award-winning project from the Global AI Hackathon Series (hosted by Qwen Cloud), winner of the “Honor Award & Blog Article Award” Project Overview At first glance, this may sound like satire, but the premise is that it functions as civic technology: nine AI judges, each with a different judicial ph

Zhidx (WeChat public account: zhidxcom) Author | ZeR0 Editor | Moying Zhidx reported on November 5 that the second International Engineering Intelligence Conference of the 2026 World Laureates Forum was held recently. At the conference, Tao Mei, a foreign member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and founder and CEO of Zhixiang Yuanyi (HiDream.ai), delivered a speech proposing the construction of agentic omnimodal world models (Agentic Omnimodal World