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Anthropic surveyed nearly 52,000 Americans about their hopes and fears around AI. Sixty-four percent fear job losses, and 56 percent worry about losing the ability to think for themselves. Daily AI users are far less concerned. Still, most people reject AI in their own workplace, even for tasks they think it can handle. The article Over half of Americans fear losing both their jobs and their indep…

OpenAI now lets Codex users bank their rate-limit resets and trigger them manually instead of watching them expire on a fixed schedule. If you hit your usage cap mid-session, you can cash in a saved reset right away instead of waiting. Users on the Go, Plus, Pro, and Business plans each get one free reset to start. Plus and Pro users can also invite friends to unlock extra resets. The article Open…

Claude Fable 5 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 64.9 points and sets records in five of ten benchmarks. But the gain over Opus 4.8 is just 5.7 percent at double the token price. Safety filters with fallback routing push costs even higher. The article Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 costs twice as much for 5.7 percent more performance appeared first on The Decoder.

Within days of each other, Google and OpenAI separately exposed operations allegedly originating in China that use AI for fraud and covert influence campaigns. Both target US infrastructure and political debates. The article Google files first joint lawsuit with FBI over Chinese AI scam network, OpenAI blocks PRC influence clusters appeared first on The Decoder.

French AI startup Mistral AI is negotiating a new funding round of around 3 billion euros at a valuation of approximately 20 billion euros. The article Mistral AI seeks 3 billion euros to fund its European AI push appeared first on The Decoder.

Anthropic is throttling its new Mythos model for certain tasks while building apps that directly compete with its largest customers. Customers, partners, and investors are pushing back. The article The AI industry's platform trap is starting to look a lot like Microsoft's appeared first on The Decoder.

OpenAI is acquiring Ona, previously known as Gitpod, a startup founded in Kiel, Germany in 2020 that specializes in AI agents and secure cloud development environments for software development. The article OpenAI buys Ona to push Codex toward long-running, autonomous coding tasks appeared first on The Decoder.

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A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for …

Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus has closed a $12 billion funding round at a $41 billion valuation. The company launched just last November with $6.2 billion in seed funding. No products yet, because Bezos says sharing details would be "premature." The article Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closes $12 billion round at a $41 billion valuation appeared first on The Decoder.

Deezer now offers a free AI music detector that lets users on any major streaming platform check whether AI-generated songs are hiding in their playlists. The article Free Deezer tool lets users on any streaming service check their playlists for AI music appeared first on The Decoder.

For more than a decade, artificial intelligence has been touted as a way to dramatically accelerate drug discovery. Yet despite billions of dollars in investment, relatively few AI-designed medicines have made it to patients. That’s partially because the timelines for careful drug testing can’t be easily compressed—and partially because drug development is just really hard. Isomorphic Labs, the Go…

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OpenAI’s fourth large language model (LLM), GPT-4, took an estimated 50 gigawatt-hours to train, or the equivalent of 5,000 American homes’ yearly power consumption. That was in 2023. Since then, the computational resources used to train frontier LLMs have only increased, though direct power usage numbers are hard to come by. Now, a research group at the University of Twente in the Netherlands has…

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The much anticipated launch of the Mythos-class model was marred by some controversial usage policies