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Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI pressured him after his AI-assisted progress on the Navier-Stokes equations leaked. The company allegedly tried to remove his co-author because he works at Anthropic and threatened Buckmaster when he refused. OpenAI then claimed its own breakthrough using the same unusual solution path. Buckmaster had uploaded all his drafts to Codex. OpenAI told him th…

AI coding tools can now generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, helping companies build features, run tests, and fix issues faster. But the flood of AI-generated code still has to be reviewed. Large language models can produce code that looks clean on the surface but conceals sloppy mistakes such as faulty assumptions, security vulnerabilities, or subtle errors that emerge only after deplo…

Argentina's Patagonia is drawing attention as a possible site for large AI data centers. The article Patagonia has what AI data centers want, including no resistance so far appeared first on The Decoder.

ASML has won over Samsung, TSMC, and Intel to switch to larger photomasks, which should boost the throughput of its newest EUV machines by 40 percent. Meanwhile, Huawei is orchestrating China's counter-strategy, aiming to break its dependence on the Dutch lithography technology through equipment maker Yuliangsheng and its own suppliers. The article ASML locks in TSMC, Samsung, and Intel while Huaw…

Meta will no longer judge its engineers by how much they use AI tools. The article Meta drops AI usage from engineer performance reviews after "tokenmaxxing" backfires appeared first on The Decoder.

The open model ecosystem continues to expand in its breadth

DNA is often explained as a codebook or set of instructions for producing proteins, and ultimately, life. Some stretches of DNA, called genes, code for proteins, but the vast majority of DNA is considered “non-coding.” Some of it has no known function, while other segments are critical to regulating gene activity. These regulatory elements can interact in complicated ways, and their effects can va…

Distillation can make models smaller, faster, and cheaper. The difficult part is deciding what the student cannot afford to forget.

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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.

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Anthropic signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion in eleven months but still trails OpenAI's $750 billion plan through 2030. In early 2026, CEO Dario Amodei warned against investing too fast. Now Anthropic is racing to catch up, while Sam Altman warns about "unsustainable silliness" in the compute buildout, especially from neo-cloud providers. The article Anthropic reportedly signs $517 …

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.

ChatGPT has pushed its share of AI chatbot website traffic back up to 55.5 percent, according to Similarweb. Year-over-year, though, its lead shrank sharply from 73.3 percent as Gemini doubled its share and Claude grew nearly fivefold. Mobile apps and desktop clients aren't included. The article ChatGPT claws back web traffic share to 55.5 percent as Gemini's brief comeback fades appeared first on The Decoder.

A study in Nature Biotechnology suggests that rentosertib, a drug designed with AI by Insilico Medicine, may reverse markers of biological aging. Six independent aging clocks predicted that treated patients were biologically up to six years younger than the placebo group. The trial covered just 42 patients and the drug hasn't been tested in healthy people yet. The article AI-designed drug appears …

In Kenya, ChatGPT wiped out an entire business model: writing academic papers for foreign students. The article How AI wiped out an entire industry in Nairobi appeared first on The Decoder.

Swiss banking giant UBS is making AI skills a required qualification from 2027 for graduates and interns in Global Banking and Markets, with applicants having to show in interviews how they use AI to improve outcomes and efficiency. Santander is already looking for advanced AI users too, while Morgan Stanley predicts more than 200,000 banking jobs in Europe will disappear within five years. The ar…

OpenAI reports that AI agents in its own research already handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday, and it says it has reached its goal of an "automated research intern." But chief scientist Pachocki warns that no lab has a good enough grip on alignment and monitoring to keep scaling at maximum speed. The article OpenAI reports AI "research interns" and warns about its own pace at the same time…

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New York City bans AI use in public schools through the end of middle school. The article New York City bans AI tools from public schools through eighth grade appeared first on The Decoder.