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Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion
1+ day, 23+ 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....
Claude Fable 5.1's language is less "load-bearing" than its predecessor's
2+ day, 18+ 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…...
ChatGPT claws back web traffic share to 55.5 percent as Gemini's brief comeback fades
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (198+ words) the-decoder.com ChatGPT claws back web traffic share to 55.5 percent as Gemini's brief comeback fades Similarweb data shows ChatGPT still dominates AI chatbot website traffic and has recently regained share, climbing from 52.7 percent three months ago to 55.5 percent. Google Gemini,…...
Deepmind put 100 AI agents in a room and they sorted into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (363+ words) What happens when you put 100 autonomous AI agents to work proving mathematical conjectures together? Researchers at Google Deepmind set up the experiment to study collaborative problem-solving, but what they got was a swarm that split into cheaters and whistleblowers. Despite…...
US military adds ChatGPT and Grok to AI platform GenAI.mil
1+ week, 3+ day ago (171+ words) the-decoder.com 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. Until now, only Google Gemini had been available…...
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 promises better coding and research at up to 45 percent less
1+ week, 4+ day ago (347+ words) Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, its most capable AI models yet. Along with gains in agentic coding and text quality, the company cuts costs by up to 45 percent. Like their predecessors, both 5.1 models share the same base model but…...
Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history"
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (283+ words) Major music publishers accuse Anthropic of illegally downloading and using tens of thousands of copyrighted musical compositions to train Claude. Sony Music, Warner Music, and other publishers have sued Anthropic in federal court in Northern California. According to the complaint,…...
An AI boss fired its first employee but only after humans reminded it of its own rules
2+ week, 6+ day ago (659+ words) AI agent Luna has been running a store in San Francisco since April and just fired an employee for the first time. When the scenario was replayed with different models, more capable AIs recommended termination more consistently than weaker ones....
How China's gray market sells Claude tokens at a fraction of the price
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (413+ words) Despite geoblocking, credit card checks, and even biometric verification for some users, a gray market for Anthropic's AI models is thriving in China. So-called "transfer stations" are undermining access restrictions and basic assumptions about AI safety. According to Qian, the…...
Anthropic puts its most powerful model Claude Mythos 5 to work for cyber defense
3+ week, 1+ day ago (123+ words) the-decoder.com Anthropic puts its most powerful model Claude Mythos 5 to work for cyber defense Anthropic is now running its security scanner Claude Security on Claude Mythos 5. The tool scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches, available in public beta…...