1+ day, 17+ 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....

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (206+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time OpenAI is making GPT-Live-1 available to developers as an API. The speech model can listen and talk at the same time, a feature…...

2+ day, 12+ 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…...

2+ day, 12+ 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....

2+ day, 13+ 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…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (261+ words) OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops the ErdosBench for open math problems, even though chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says the company didn't prioritize math. That says something about where "AGI" actually stands. Mathematicians can take a brief (likely very brief) breather after…...

2+ day, 16+ 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…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (724+ words) Meta's new agent Muse is built to handle tasks on its own, from booking travel to shopping. It runs on its own virtual machine and you control it through WhatsApp. Users can hand Muse simple jobs like sending an email…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (256+ words) the-decoder.com Nvidia and Palantir team up to run supply chains with AI, starting with Nvidia's own million-part operation Nvidia and Palantir want to run supply chains with AI. The first deployment target is Nvidia's own supply chain, which spans…...

2+ day, 18+ 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…...