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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.
Read original →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.
Read original →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.
Read original →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.
Read original →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.
Read original →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.
Read original →OpenAI recommends that developers using GPT-6 Astra employ leaner prompts and fewer guardrails, with instructions tied to specific tasks rather than lengthy skill descriptions and blanket requirements. This guidance reflects a shift in model architecture philosophy—more capable models require less restrictive oversight—which could accelerate deployment timelines and reduce friction in AI application development.
Read original →MIT Technology Review is hosting a roundtable discussion featuring AI lab employees discussing the existential risk that advanced AI could destroy humanity, exploring whether these concerns are scientifically grounded or speculative. This conversation reflects ongoing debate within the AI research community about long-term safety and represents a shift in mainstream coverage of AI risk scenarios.
Read original →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.
Read original →In a joint statement, 25 Fields Medal winners warn that the goals of the AI industry and mathematics are "severely misaligned." They argue that mass-producing solved problems with AI undermines the discipline's true goal: understanding. The mathematicians see this as a symptom of a broader threat to intellectual work. The article Leading mathematicians fear AI is making their field dumber, and warn the rest of us is next appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Oriol Vinyals, former head of research at Google DeepMind, argues that recursive AI self-improvement will not trigger an intelligence explosion, citing two fundamental bottlenecks: generating novel research ideas and reliably evaluating outcomes. Vinyals estimates AI can accelerate research by approximately 10x but will plateau before achieving runaway recursive improvement.
Read original →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.
Read original →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.
Read original →The handheld catheterization device AI-GUIDE, created by Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital, promises improved health outcomes for injured service members and civilians.
Read original →NVIDIA is using Palantir Foundry and cuOpt to automate its hardware supply chain allocation decisions across global manufacturing sites. The company measures operational delivery from wafer-out to first token. This window splits into time-to-rack (the transit from fab output to an assembled data centre system) and time-to-token (which covers power, cooling, networking, and day-one software […] The post Palantir Foundry and cuOpt drive NVIDIA supply chain allocation appeared first on AI News.
Read original →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.
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