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Published on June 3, 2026 at 1:13 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) Meta is giving its employees a 30-minute break with no data collection to calm internal protests. Meta's MCI program aims to track employees' work to train its artificial intelligence models. Mark Zuckerberg justifies this program by describing its employees as "intelligent." While Meta tracks its employees' mouse clicks and keystrokes, a measure has been taken to calm the

Published on June 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Apple Apple likes to control everything, from the processor to the operating system. Yet to save Siri, the company is going to entrust the brain of its assistant to Google and its muscles to NVIDIA. The project has dragged on for years. Apple promised a truly intelligent Siri, then postponed it for lack of a homegrown model up to the task.The chosen solution relies on its rivals: to power the new ver

Published on June 5, 2026 at 17:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net/Anthropic The laboratory that has built a reputation for caution would like the entire industry to ease off. The catch: it has just floored the accelerator like never before. A week ago, Opus 4.8’s system card had set the stage: the model had learned, during training, to anticipate the presence of an evaluator without any element of the instructions telling it to.The post published on June 4 goes

Published on June 7, 2026 at 09:07 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Inrupt The man who invented the web never really came to terms with what we have done with it. His answer to the AI era comes down to an assistant named Charlie, designed to serve the user rather than the platform hosting it. Since he gave the web to the world in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee has spent part of his time correcting its excesses, from algorithms engineered to be addictive to platforms that moneti

Published on June 9, 2026 at 07:20 Updated on June 10, 2026 at 12:14 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI was named this way because AI was intended to be open to everyone. In 2026, the free version of ChatGPT will display advertising, and the chat interface is officially “dead.” Generative AI is about to change completely, and there will be little left of what we know. The turning point began in January 2026, when Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s head of applications, an

Published on June 15, 2026 at 12:30 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Under pressure from the Trump administration, Anthropic was forced to cut off global access to its two most powerful AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. At the root of the U.S. order was a warning issued by Amazon and rumors of an attempted exploitation by China. The affair sent shock waves through Europe, where politicians are calling for an end to dependence on the United States. Last

Published on June 16, 2026 at 08:59 Comment 17 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Starting July 8, 2026, Anthropic may ask both free and paid Claude subscribers to verify their identity. The startup may request a passport, a driver’s license, or even a selfie. The data is entrusted to a contractor, fueling concerns about leaks. Anthropic sent an email to Claude users informing them of an important update to its privacy policy. The main change concerns the addition of a n

Published on June 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic About a hundred cybersecurity experts are protesting against the ban on the two latest Claude models released by Anthropic. In an open letter, they argue that the United States is shooting itself in the foot—and in the foot of cybersecurity in general—by seeking to restrict access to AI systems. At the end of last week, Washington issued Anthropic a sweeping injunction. The Trump administr

Published on June 17, 2026 at 09:52 Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Ana Luisa Soares (Unsplash) Just in time for the opening of VivaTech, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu makes a sovereign pivot: 655 million euros for AI, a Mistral chatbot for one million state employees, and a timeline for breaking ties with the American company Palantir. Coinciding with the official opening of the VivaTech show in Paris this Wednesday, June 17, 2026, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu

Published on June 17, 2026 at 4:55 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net/OpenAI For months, ChatGPT accounted for more than half of AI assistants worldwide. That has no longer been true since March, and the forces driving this shift combine OpenAI’s navigation errors, Gemini’s steady rise, and an unexpected side effect of European regulation. The figure that crystallizes it all is May 2026’s: 46.4% of the consumer AI assistant market for ChatGPT, measured across

Published June 19, 2026 at 1:14 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Meta « It’s literally a gulag. Overnight, you no longer have any purpose in life ». Some Meta employees describe a dire working environment within the company. The group’s race to develop artificial intelligence would come at the expense of its employees’ mental health. « It’s literally a gulag », « running a marathon in the middle of a hailstorm », « the madness of this company » : accounts describi

Published on June 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) The Model Capability Initiative program is designed to track Meta employees’ activity. The collected data, some of which is confidential, was accessible to any employee of the company. For reference, Meta deployed the Model Capability Initiative program, an internal system designed to capture employees’ mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in order to train Meta’s artif

Enterprise sales push OpenAI's quarterly revenue to $10 billion, though it still trails Anthropic View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 11, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points OpenAI grew its quarterly revenue about 50 percent to $10 billion but posted an adjusted operating loss of $10.9 billion. Rival Anthropic operates far more efficiently, bringing in $17 billion in revenue over the same period with an operating loss of j

US corporate AI spending hits a new high in October, but growth slows to 1.65 percent View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 11, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points US corporate AI spending rose just 1.65 percent month over month in October 2026 to a new high, according to the Ramp AI Index, with the top one percent of companies paying a median of $10,200 per employee per month while the typical company spent $16.32. One perc

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock The era of AI maximalism is grinding to a halt. It was only months ago that CEOs were forcing employees to use AI as much as possible for tasks like coding. But at some point during their AI binge, the big wigs stopped to check their tab, and are now having second thoughts. Their employees are hooked on AI coding tools, but the costs of using them are spiraling out of control. How busines

In May, I wrote about my SD Studio app—a wrapper around Stable Diffusion where you describe the image in ordinary language, while an LLM and presets select the prompt and settings. I built it to generate hundreds of illustrations for a choose-your-own-adventure book for free; why I needed my own app is also explained in the first article.I spent a very long time trying to get six fingers, but couldn't) Over the past six months, local image-generation model

All about Apple see more All about Artificial Intelligence see more Nvidia announced three new open artificial intelligence models aimed at creating AI agents for businesses. On the same day, Meta unveiled an open-weights model and announced a partnership with Apple to run it locally on high-performance Mac computers.The launches expand the range of AI options developed in the United States, although it remains unclear whether they will attract users to ch

Published on June 26, 2026, at 11:21 AM Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 model will initially be available to a limited number of companies. Its use will be approved on a case-by-case basis by the Trump administration. After promoting the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the U.S. government is now making a U-turn and imposing strict controls on new AI models in the name of national security. OpenAI’s highly anti

Published on June 30, 2026 at 14:00 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net - OpenAI OpenAI publishes a reassuring map of AI's impact on employment in Europe: 14% of occupations at high risk of automation. The result is polished. The report's author, meanwhile, is the leading seller of the tools that pose the problem. Since ChatGPT arrived in the autumn of 2022, studies on AI's impact on employment have proliferated at a dizzying pace, with their contradictory estimates

Published on July 1, 2026 at 09:00 Updated on July 1, 2026 at 10:58 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net After three weeks of worldwide suspension, the two most powerful Anthropic AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, are back. The U.S. Department of Commerce has officially lifted the export controls targeting the AI duo. The two new Claude models are no longer banned. Update on July 1, 2026: Anthropic clarifies in a second post on X that “Claude Fable 5 wil