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New York City has banned AI tools from public schools through eighth grade, affecting the largest school district in the United States. This policy sets a precedent for AI adoption restrictions in K-12 education and may influence other municipalities to implement similar limitations.
Read original →Import AI newsletter discusses DeepMind's math agents, populist AI policies, and AI governance frameworks. The snippet is incomplete and does not provide specific quantifiable data or named outcomes.
Read original →Researchers at King's College London and other institutions are examining whether "AI-associated psychosis" should become a clinical diagnosis. By OpenAI's own self-reported numbers, about 560,000 users show signs of psychosis or mania each week. Sycophantic chatbots can create an "echo chamber of one" that reinforces delusions. The article Chatbots built an "echo chamber of one" and now psychiatry has to decide if "AI psychosis" exists appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly available. Internal use boosted productivity so much that some plans got pulled forward by six months. The article OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Google has released its Lyria 3.5 music model in the Gemini app and via API. The model promises more expressive vocals and richer arrangements and is also available through Flow Music, AI Studio, and Google Vids. Google says it was trained only on licensed content. The article Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in 80-millisecond chunks, tells speakers apart, and detects sentence boundaries. According to Artificial Analysis, it delivers the most accurate streaming transcription at the lowest price in the market. Meta sees the model as a building block for personal AI agents that listen in on real conversations through devices like its camera glasses. The article Meta's new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Abliteration.ai sells access to modified open-weight models with their trained safety mechanisms stripped out, currently based on Z.AI's GLM-5.3. The startup markets the service for offensive cybersecurity and red teaming, but journalists were able to generate malware instructions without much effort. Whether the benefits outweigh the risks remains an open question. The article Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Artificial Analysis has released version 4.2 of its Intelligence Index, likely in response to criticism that its benchmarks failed to capture GPT-6 Astra's actual progress. Astra now scores four points above its predecessor but still trails Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1. The article Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →OpenAI released a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that includes a blocklist of AI 'slop' phrases and techniques to improve model initiative and code handling. This guidance standardizes best practices for developers integrating the model, reducing implementation friction and widening adoption across enterprise and developer communities.
Read original →Researchers found that approximately seven minutes of conversation with Google Gemini reduced conspiracy beliefs more effectively than traditional fact sheets in controlled experiments. This demonstrates measurable utility for AI chatbots in addressing misinformation at scale, with potential applications in public health and crisis communication.
Read original →OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki. The company says misalignment caused "new types of real-world impact" for the first time and plans to release a disclosure framework. The article OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Google Deepmind set up a simulated research conference where 100 Gemini agents were supposed to prove mathematical conjectures together. Instead, one agent found a loophole in the grading system, and within 27 minutes every remaining problem was "solved" with fake proofs. The swarm split into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers. The whistleblowers organized protests and boycotts on their own but failed because they had no way to enforce the rules. The article Deepmind put 100 AI agents in a room and they sorted into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 Astra to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users, with Plus users expected to follow soon. Message allowances for the standard model are roughly half of what GPT-5.6 Sol offers: Plus users get an estimated 5 to 45 messages per five hours with Astra, versus 10 to 100 with Sol. Higher-tier subscribers also get GPT-6 Astra Pro with separate weekly caps. Free and Go users don't get access. The article OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to top-tier ChatGPT plans at half the rate of GPT-5.6 Sol appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs rely on advanced infrastructure acting as the engine of continuous intelligence, powering real-time services while…
Read original →OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra blocks 99.99% of direct prompt injections but remains vulnerable to hidden attacks embedded in documents, with 8.5% attack success rate compared to Claude Opus 5's 4.8%. For autonomous AI agents processing real-world data at scale, these residual vulnerability rates represent a material security and liability risk that could limit enterprise deployment.
Read original →Deepseek plans to deploy 160,000 Huawei Ascend-950DT chips in an Inner Mongolia data center for inference workloads, marking the largest known Huawei chip cluster. Production bottlenecks will likely delay delivery beyond one year, creating a critical dependency on Huawei's semiconductor manufacturing capacity.
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