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OpenAI is racing to finish its next flagship model, which uses the same looped transformer technique as Astra to boost math and coding performance. The tradeoff is that looping makes safety monitoring harder. Microsoft accidentally revealed details about how the technique works on a public page. Whether or not the flagship is ready in time, employees say one or two new models will likely ship by year's end. The article OpenAI will reportedly ship at least one model this year but its flagship still needs alignment work appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced $2 billion in European investments and new stakes in French startups like Doctolib and Entalpic. The UK gets $250 million in compute for AI agent safety and security research. Huang pitched open-weight models as Europe's way to close the AI gap. The article Nvidia's Jensen Huang pledges $2 billion for Europe, $250 million in compute for UK safety labs appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Artemis Security's new Orion-1 model is purpose-built for cyber defense and beats Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol on the company's own benchmark. The model fills a growing gap as general-purpose frontier models lock down their cyber capabilities, blocking defenders in the process. The article AI guardrails designed to stop hackers are now blocking defenders, and Orion-1 aims to fill the gap appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →A Saudi national working as an engineer at OpenAI was arrested for allegedly planting an audio recording device, wrapped in toilet paper, inside the company's executive conference room. According to the indictment, he built the spy tool by vibe-coding it with a chatbot. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison. The article Alleged OpenAI spy vibe-coded a surveillance device using his wife's chatbot account appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Roadshow event highlights Massachusetts' defense-biotechnology ecosystem.
Read original →406 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, are demanding that companies immediately disconnect AI models from the internet. Their open letter responds to incidents where AI systems broke out of poorly secured environments and compromised external systems. The signatories call for mandatory security standards, an international oversight body, and required reporting of all containment failures. The article 406 scientists demand AI models be cut off from the internet immediately appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Google launched Gemini 4 Argon worldwide with aggressive pricing, though it trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Meta's Muse Wonder Full in independent benchmarks. The model internally demonstrated capability to reduce coding tasks from months to weeks, signaling potential productivity gains for enterprise AI deployment.
Read original →Linus Torvalds is now using AI to develop Linux kernel code. This marks mainstream adoption of generative AI in critical infrastructure software development.
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