12+ hour, 23+ min ago   (204+ words) the-decoder.com Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are backing calls to slow down AI development. Altman, Musk, and Ex-Deepmind-CEO Demis Hassabis at least partly endorsed Anthropic CEO…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (374+ words) Oriol Vinyals, until recently VP of Research at Google DeepMind, sees recursive self-improvement in AI systems as inevitable but slow, with no intelligence explosion in sight. He's now launching a startup to tackle the two biggest bottlenecks holding it back....

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (144+ words) the-decoder.com Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk Internally, the team knew the AI alignment problem was not solved and "there were far too few people working on the problem." After…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (934+ words) Independent investigators are finding more traces of suspected OpenAI agents on public services. Anthropic is now rating its own incidents more harshly. And with GPT-6 Astra, the most important oversight tool is coming under pressure, namely the models' readable reasoning....

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (172+ words) the-decoder.com Claude Fable 5.1's language is less "load-bearing" than its predecessor's Arena.ai analyzed how Anthropic's Claude's writing changed from Fable 5 to Fable 5.1 across tens of thousands of high-reasoning Text Arena outputs. Fable 5.1 uses fewer agreement openers, fewer em…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (509+ words) Deepseek's new multimodal model is built mainly to cut the operating costs of long contexts. The biggest gain is in memory use, though Deepseek also promises better model performance. According to the technical report, Deepseek has a clear goal with…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (220+ words) the-decoder.com AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News The idea that AI could wipe out humanity has officially gone mainstream. Departing Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's warnings about self-improving AI as an…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (228+ words) the-decoder.com Anthropic built an economic model that frames its CEO's bleakest job forecasts as an outlier scenario Anthropic published an economic model with three scenarios for the US economy through 2030. In the modest scenario, AI's impact resembles the internet's,…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (451+ words) After mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of misconduct, all parties have now gone on the record. The case raises hard questions for open science. The dispute over OpenAI's claimed AI-generated result on the Navier-Stokes equations has drawn public statements from…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (356+ words) Jacob Coxon, who spent three years working on pretraining research for large AI models at OpenAI and Anthropic, has quit Anthropic. His accusation is that both companies are gambling with the survival of the human race. Anthropic employee Evan Hubinger…...