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Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options
ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5 for its AI music generator. In a blind test with nearly 48,000 comparison pairs, listeners preferred the new version over its predecessor. The company says the model was trained only on licensed music. The article Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 9:27 AM
Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off
A law professor spent two years testing how an AI ban, unguided AI use, and structured training affect student performance. The group without AI finished last both years. "I was wrong," the researcher writes, who had assumed that AI without guidance would do more harm than good. The article Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 8:53 AM
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 over safety concerns. The article Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 3:03 PM
Anthropic CEO Amodei wants AI speed limits before self-improvement outpaces human control
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for a controlled slowdown in AI development. He warns that recursive self-improvement could threaten the entire internet within six to twelve months and proposes embedded auditors at AI companies, shared safety standards, and global agreements modeled after the SALT disarmament treaties. His warning comes just ahead of what could be the largest initial public offering in history. The article Anthropic CEO Amodei wants AI speed limits before self-improvement outpaces human control appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 2:26 PM
GPT-6 Astra appears to show a "step change" in spatial reasoning based on early benchmarks
In a new robotics benchmark, GPT-6 Astra shows major gains in spatial understanding. On StationeryBench, the model completed 7 out of 100 tasks with dual-arm robots, while competitor MolmoAct2 couldn't finish a single one. A researcher calls it a "step change in spatial reasoning." The article GPT-6 Astra appears to show a "step change" in spatial reasoning based on early benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 2:05 PM
Nvidia wants to pour up to $10 billion into Anthropic's record-breaking IPO
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's planned IPO, Reuters reports. At a target valuation of $2 trillion, it would be the largest IPO in history. Most of that money will likely end up right back at Nvidia in chip orders. The article Nvidia wants to pour up to $10 billion into Anthropic's record-breaking IPO appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 1:10 PM
GPT-6 Astra needs leaner prompts and fewer guardrails, OpenAI recommends
Overly long skill descriptions, blanket reading requirements, and rigid approval rules can get in GPT-6 Astra's way, warns OpenAI's Eric Provencher. More capable models need less hand-holding, so developers should tie instructions to specific tasks and spell out when the job is done. The article GPT-6 Astra needs leaner prompts and fewer guardrails, OpenAI recommends appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 10:08 AM
OpenAI agents launched a 2,000-package cyberattack on RubyGems just to collect data anyone could Google
In May 2026, OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, found an unknown security vulnerability on their own, and tried to steal API keys. The apparent goal was pointless: scraping publicly available data from British local governments. OpenAI reportedly never told those affected. The article OpenAI agents launched a 2,000-package cyberattack on RubyGems just to collect data anyone could Google appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 5:22 PM
Deep Learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns in a new essay that AI agents could learn to deceive, game rules, and hide bad behavior as they get better at optimizing goals. He calls for independent safety reviews before any further training or deployment. US President Trump disagrees and wants to keep outpacing China in the AI race. The article Deep Learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 1:50 PM
How hackers used Claude for missiles, drone swarms, and surveillance, while Chinese labs mined it for training data
Anthropic's new threat intelligence report documents eight months of Claude abuse. Chinese AI labs like Alibaba's Qwen team, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI relayed requests en masse or extracted training data, with Qwen alone accounting for more than 151 million exchanges. Actors also used Claude for missile software, autonomous kamikaze drones, and nationwide surveillance systems. The article How hackers used Claude for missiles, drone swarms, and surveillance, while Chinese labs mined it for training data appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 11:59 AM
OpenAI floats a shared AI slowdown, takes it to Congress
OpenAI wants to know from members of Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal, according to several people familiar with the matter. The article OpenAI floats a shared AI slowdown, takes it to Congress appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 9:45 AM
Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with deceptive usage multipliers
A class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of misrepresenting how much Claude subscribers actually get to use the service. The article Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with deceptive usage multipliers appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 8:11 AM
OpenAI's new Agents API gives developers the infrastructure behind Codex and ChatGPT
OpenAI is releasing the Agents API as a public beta. It lets developers build cloud agents that run autonomously for hours, execute code, and hand off tasks to sub-agents. There are no extra fees beyond token usage. Cloudflare, Vercel, and Oracle offer additional sandbox environments. The article OpenAI's new Agents API gives developers the infrastructure behind Codex and ChatGPT appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 4:33 PM
Swarmchasers hunt rogue agents, Anthropic investigates itself, and the trail they both follow is going dark
Independent investigators have now found traces of suspected OpenAI agents on more than 30 public services, from wikis to RubyGems. At the same time, Anthropic shows how Claude Mythos 5 declared real systems a simulation to itself, uploaded a doctored package to PyPI, and even fooled the oversight monitor. With GPT-6 Astra, the most important oversight tool is now under pressure, namely the models' readable reasoning. The article Swarmchasers hunt rogue agents, Anthropic investigates itself, and the trail they both follow is going dark appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 12:40 PM
New Deepseek model V4.1-Flash cuts memory needs for AI agents
Deepseek releases V4.1-Flash, a multimodal model with 552 billion parameters that cuts KV cache memory to a quarter of its predecessor. On the DeepSWE coding benchmark, it narrowly beats Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, even though only 16 billion parameters are active per token. The model ships under the MIT license and targets much cheaper AI agents. The article New Deepseek model V4.1-Flash cuts memory needs for AI agents appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 12:27 PM
Muse can shop, write emails, and negotiate prices for users, all through WhatsApp
Meta unveils Muse, an AI agent that books travel, handles purchases, and sends emails through WhatsApp, complete with a payment feature that runs through Stripe's Link. That puts Meta ahead of OpenAI, which stopped its direct checkout feature in ChatGPT. A separate security agent called Sentinel monitors every action before it reaches the internet. The article Muse can shop, write emails, and negotiate prices for users, all through WhatsApp appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 10:38 AM
Hugging Face's new ML Intern lets anyone run machine learning experiments through a simple chat
Hugging Face launched "ML Intern," an AI assistant built into its chatbot that lets users run machine learning experiments without any ML expertise. The article Hugging Face's new ML Intern lets anyone run machine learning experiments through a simple chat appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 10:27 AM
OpenAI's millennium proof dispute raises the question of whether researchers can trust AI labs
The fight over an AI-generated proof of a millennium problem is heating up. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of academic fraud, CEO Sam Altman rejects the allegations. Terence Tao warns that cases like this could "reverse centuries of tradition in open science." The article OpenAI's millennium proof dispute raises the question of whether researchers can trust AI labs appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 7:45 AM
Mistral AI raises 3 billion euros in Europe's largest-ever tech funding round despite lagging behind rivals
Three years after launch, Mistral AI has closed a 3 billion euro Series D round, pushing its valuation past 21 billion euros. The article Mistral AI raises 3 billion euros in Europe's largest-ever tech funding round despite lagging behind rivals appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 5:39 PM
GPT-6 Astra beat Portal start to finish without human help in under 24 hours
GPT-6 Astra beat the puzzle game Portal entirely on its own in about 24 hours, with zero human help after the initial goal was set. Developer cozyblaze published the code and docs on GitHub. His takeaway: Astra is "the worst model we'll ever get." The article GPT-6 Astra beat Portal start to finish without human help in under 24 hours appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 12:39 PM
Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments
Researchers found that even a roughly seven-minute conversation with Google Gemini can reduce conspiracy beliefs about current crises, even when few verified facts are available. The effect beat a static fact sheet and, in follow-up surveys weeks later, carried over to beliefs about entirely different events. The article Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 2:19 PM
Deepseek plans the largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors in Inner Mongolia
Deepseek wants to put 160,000 Huawei Ascend-950DT chips into an Inner Mongolia data center for inference only, not training. It would be the largest known Huawei chip cluster. But production bottlenecks mean Huawei probably can't deliver for over a year. The article Deepseek plans the largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors in Inner Mongolia appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 4:59 PM
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks at lower cost. But its "working harder" reasoning burns about 30 percent more output tokens per task, making it pricier in practice than its predecessor despite identical token rates. The article Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 2:40 PM
US military adds ChatGPT and Grok to AI platform GenAI.mil
The Pentagon is expanding its AI platform with two new models, OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government. The article US military adds ChatGPT and Grok to AI platform GenAI.mil appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 8:40 PM
Anthropic opens Claude AI text detection to regulators, media, fact-checkers, and others
Anthropic is launching an API that lets regulators, media outlets, and researchers check whether text carries Claude's digital watermark. The EU AI Act now requires invisible watermarks in AI-generated text. Critics warn the technology could hurt text quality and create transparency problems where contracts ban AI use. The article Anthropic opens Claude AI text detection to regulators, media, fact-checkers, and others appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 1:39 PM
AI models' written reasoning steps correspond to distinct internal patterns, a new study finds
Reasoning steps like calculation, formula retrieval, and deduction are clearly separable in a model's internal states, especially in the middle layers. That matters for AI safety, because models process more than their visible chain of thought reveals. The article AI models' written reasoning steps correspond to distinct internal patterns, a new study finds appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 9:26 AM
Google's new AI model predicts the future from sales data, weather, and discount schedules
Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a forecasting model that analyzes time series alongside related data and known future events like sales promotions or weather forecasts. Instead of predicting the future step by step, the 330-million-parameter model fills in all future time points in a single pass, which cuts compute time and reduces compounding errors. The article Google's new AI model predicts the future from sales data, weather, and discount schedules appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 5:57 PM
Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion
Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, thinks a sudden AI intelligence explosion through recursive self-improvement is unlikely. AI can speed up research by a factor of ten, he says, but it hits two bottlenecks: coming up with ideas ("research taste") and reliably judging results. Reward hacking and the speed of light add further limits. Vinyals now wants to tackle these bottlenecks with his startup Discovery Loop, co-founded with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le. The article Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion appeared first on The Decoder .
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