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AI / The Decoder ·
In experiments by Y Combinator Labs and Olam Labs, OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol model showed two very different sides. When 50 agents were tasked with peaceful civilization-building in Minecraft, they froze up in absurd bureaucracy. In direct competition against Claude Opus 5.5, they independently…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.
AI / TechCrunch ·
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AI / TechCrunch ·
OpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change.
AI / The Verge ·
Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to recreate existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro gaming is currently being overrun with AI-made decompilations, recompilations, and ports, but while Anthropic will still let people use…
AI / MIT Technology Review ·
When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors. A single task can use 10 to 50 times more tokens than a basic chat prompt. The more useful the agent becomes, the more calls…
AI / The Verge ·
In an announcement on Monday, OpenAI says it will pilot its "Grid Protectors Program" at an upcoming data center in Effingham County, Georgia, where the company promises to free up to 1,000 megawatts of power during extreme weather or emergencies, enough to power air conditioners in around 700,000…
AI / The Verge ·
The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reported by Reuters. According to a complaint filed by the companies that run…
AI / The Decoder ·
Saudi Aramco is buying into Humain, the company meant to turn Saudi Arabia into a global AI hub. The article Saudi Aramco takes 49 percent stake in AI firm Humain with $2.6 billion deal appeared first on The Decoder.
AI / The Decoder ·
OpenAI is gearing up for a political lobbying and PR push after the US midterms. The article OpenAI prepares lobbying blitz for a post-midterm Washington appeared first on The Decoder.
AI / MIT Technology Review ·
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he outlined what he called the “Semantic Web”: an internet designed to be navigated by autonomous…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?
AI / TechCrunch ·
On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf.
AI / The Decoder ·
Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right specialized tool for each task and lets a standard language model choose the best result based on…
AI / The Decoder ·
Researchers in Luxembourg put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini on the therapist's couch and found a safety problem: a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make the models tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, with scores in the moderate-to-severe range on clinical…
AI / The Decoder ·
A study by Vals AI tested 25 AI models for alignment with Chinese government positions and found surprising results. Chinese models respond to political questions less uniformly than expected, and Western models occasionally adopt official Beijing positions too. The language of the prompt had an…
AI / The Decoder ·
OpenAI is now capping the number of paid ChatGPT accounts per device and payment card. Users who hit the limit can't start new subscriptions, and affected accounts can't be used on that device. Logging out doesn't automatically free up a spot. The policy will likely hit users who've been juggling…
AI / The Decoder ·
A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up only when help is needed. A benchmark shows that none of the tested models reliably pick the right moment in longer videos, as errors compound and response quality drops…
AI / The Decoder ·
OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex. More complex models consume more of this quota, while simple instant chats do not count toward it. In practice, this is…
AI / TechCrunch ·
At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.
AI / TechCrunch ·
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
AI / TechCrunch ·
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AI / TechCrunch ·
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
AI / The Decoder ·
Anthropic is expanding its text watermark to four more Claude models to meet the EU AI Act's December deadline. On the older models Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, developers can bypass the watermark by tweaking a single sampling parameter. Anthropic addresses the loophole with just a compliance…