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Tencent releases Hy4 with vision and computer use, claims second place among Chinese AI models Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 5, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Tencent has released its AI model Hy4, which can analyze images and operate software on its own. The model weights will follow at a later date. The model was specifically optimized for coding, finance, and office work. Tencent says it has alread

Despite having no direct background in architecture, Elder and Mathur were troubled by a growing problem: Fewer buildings are constructed in the U.S. today than a few decades ago, as development costs have surged. “We’ve gone from dial-up internet to superintelligent AI, but our ability to build the physical world around us has actually decreased,” Mathur told TechCrunch. Believing AI can boost productivity across the architecture, engineering, and constru

Here are some last-minute techy Halloween costumes. Effort levels vary. Recursive self-improvement AI leaders like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman have expressed their fears that AI is developing too quickly, but if AI models become capable of “recursive self-improvement,” they’ll be able to advance on their own without human intervention, rendering any efforts to “pace the frontier” futile. I’m not sure how to visually represent the idea of an AI building its

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

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

When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Aug 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 {

Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead? Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Aug 20, 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":

Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 6, 2026 Artificial Analysis Key Points Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters, 17 billion of which are active at any given time. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Inkling 2 Small scor

Tencent's AI chief says AI bioweapons are coming, but closing off models isn't the answer Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 9, 2026 GPT-Image-2 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 { "@con

Disney bets on Adobe's Firefly to create brand-safe AI models for its entertainment empire Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 9, 2026 Disney and Adobe are building custom AI tools together for the entertainment giant's productions. The multi-year partnership was announced at Adobe's MAX conference. Under the deal, Disney gets early access to new Adobe technology for its theme parks, cruise line, and ESPN content. Ado

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

Synced reports The owner went to sleep, but at 4 a.m., Claude got busy mixing paints all by itself. Late on the night of November 6 in Berlin, developer nil (@dhvanil) left a note for the Claude at home before going to bed: “Paint an autumn tree.” Then they turned off the lights, got into bed, and expected no miracles. In the studio, only the robotic arm remained, quietly moving up and down. A dark brown trunk slowly took shape on the paper, while the pale

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Zhidx (WeChat Official Account: zhidxcom) Author | Wang Han Editor | Yun Peng Zhidx reported on November 6 that World Labs, the world model team of “AI godmother” Li Fei-Fei, had just releasedFrameboy, a real-time streaming generation demo optimized on the basis of Atlas. Frameboy streams frames from cloud GPUs, with speeds of up to 15 FPS, meaning that a new frame can be obtained roughly every 67 milliseconds. In comparison, Genie 3, the world model relea

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, and OpenAI released GPT 6.1 Sol on September 29. Coincidentally, the two models have exactly the same listed API prices on OpenRouter: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Leiphone(WeChat public account: Leiphone) The two companies are moving in highly similar directions: compressing the capabilities of near-top-tiermodels into a product tier that is faster, cheaper, and suited

Tenfold Capacity Expansion After Surge in Tencent Hy4 Invocations; No. 1 Among Open-Source Models in Agent Capabilities 2026-11-06 10:00:11 Source: QbitAI On November 5, Tencent announced that WorkBuddy had expanded tenfold in response to a surge in Hy4 invocations On November 5, Tencent announced that WorkBuddy had expanded tenfold in response to a surge in Hy4 invocations, in order to meet the experience and usage needs of more users. Meanwhile, driven b

99.4% Takes the Global Top Spot! This Chinese AI Was Trained by World Champions 2026-11-06 13:01:47 Source: QbitAI In one stroke, it broke the CyberGym world record at the "AI Security World Cup" Yishui, reporting from Aofei Temple QbitAI | Official WeChat Account QbitAI 99.4%, No. 1 in the world. Wow—who would have thought that the Silicon Valley firms always basking in the spotlight and expounding on AI security would...? Now, the one breaking the AI sec

OpenAI researchers collaborated with Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and the Stanford Internet Observatory to investigate how large language models might be misused for disinformation purposes. The collaboration included an October 2021 workshop bringing together 30 disinformation researchers, machine learning experts, and policy analysts, and culminated in a co-authored report building on more than a year of research. T