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LLM may consider emoticons that humans use to express emotions as part of the instructions, ultimately leading to catastrophic consequences (such as deletion of critical data). Credit: Jiang et al. Large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process and generate texts in various languages, are now widely used by people worldwide. These models have proved to be effective in rapidly sourcing information, answering questions, c

Critics hope to keep Elon Musk from escaping a strict data-privacy order imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shortly before he took over Twitter. The FTC order placed restrictions on X’s data use for 20 years, while requiring regular independent audits and granting the agency authority to request documents as needed to ensure compliance. The FTC’s action came after Twitter voluntarily disclosed that between May 2013 and September 2019, a coding e

Prices and barriers blown wide open Wen Le, from Aofeisi QbitAI | WeChat Official Account QbitAI Talk about living long enough to see this. The most technically impressive feat of this year's Double 11 was actually not figuring out how to hit the discount threshold. After work, I was scrolling through livestreams, ready to shop, only to find the feeds increasingly familiar. When did AI start appearing on every major shopping platform? First came the king o

An increasing number of companies are bringing generative AI into the modernization of aging core systems. Even when design documentation is unavailable, AI can decipher source code and identify business logic. Cases are also emerging in which analysis on a scale that would have been unrealistic by hand is completed in a matter of months. Kakuyasu, a liquor wholesaler, is one such company. Its core system, which had operated for 30 years, had fallen into a

Speaking onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Tuesday, the chipmaker executive answered a question about what would need to happen for AI to become a home appliance, saying, “Actually, I don’t think that’s very far away.” He pointed to the advances in consumer AI agents, like Meta’s Muse and Instinct, the startup now valued at $10 billion, as examples of how AI is finding its footing with everyday users. As for home AI? He predicts that we’ll have persona

IO, the first product from her startup Luka, came before the deep learning breakthroughs that would eventually lead to today’s large language models. “It still worked,” Kuyda told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “It was pretty magical … but, of course, it’s nowhere near what we have today.” Luka ended up becoming Replika, the popular AI chatbot companion company. Last year, Kuyda left as CEO of Replika and founded Wabi. The technology has finally cau

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

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

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

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

In an email blast to customers titled “Protecting your finances in the Al World,” Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside service, “including an Al-enabled tool or agent that offers to act on your behalf.” You can practically sense the frustration in the person sending the email. Still, customers are increasingly handing over their log-ins as personal AI assistants grow more popular. Shar

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

Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers Manuel Uth Nov 5, 2026 Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at the same time. According to Axios, the acquisition is meant to strengthen Meta's AI developer products. Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz confirmed the deal in a blog post but didn't disclose a price. The acquisition fits a broader trend. Because AI models ar

Rivian is now licensing elements of its AI voice assistant technology to Volkswagen Group as part of the broader joint venture, according to the company’s third-quarter investor presentation released Thursday. Rivian didn’t disclose the licensing fees, payment terms, or which Volkswagen vehicles will use the technology. However, the AI assistant, which recently rolled out to Rivian vehicles, could make its Volkswagen debut in the automaker’s low-cost EV ca

“I’m really proud of what we accomplished,” Lennon said. “We built an incredible personal assistant with a small team, and learned a ton. I’m grateful to our amazing team, our users, our investors, and everyone who supported us on this journey.” The text-based AI assistant market has exploded over the past year, as the increasingly powerful models that undergird such applications have made them significantly more useful for daily tasks. Ollie, which discus

Synced Report On August 17, programmers worldwide were forced to endure a collective outage. After writing the code and clicking Push, the progress bar spun in place; automated tests froze, pull requests couldn't be merged, and even the AI coding assistant Copilot went offline. The system remained stuck for more than seven hours, and that day, developers around the world waited for it to catch its breath. Three days later, GitHub Chief Technology Officer V

Axiom Math is betting math can avoid that fate, not by slowing down, but by standing on firmer ground. The $1.6 billion startup wants to build a verified foundation that AI agents can rely on to write software and, eventually, do science. On Wednesday, the company announced it had formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the largest bodies of mathematics ever written by humans. Mathematicians often hold Stacks in rare regard — Columbia mathematician Pe