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A large-scale analysis of websites from the Internet Archive shows just how much AI text already saturates the web. According to the researchers, though, the actual effects look quite different from what the public assumes. The article Researchers find AI text is making the internet more uniform and weirdly cheerful appeared first on The Decoder.

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Google is testing "Ask YouTube," a conversational search feature that replaces the standard video list with a results page combining text, full-length videos, and Shorts. The article Google's "Ask YouTube" turns video search into a conversation appeared first on The Decoder.

Despite an open letter from hundreds of employees, Google has signed a contract giving the U.S. Department of Defense access to its AI models for classified work. Legal experts say the contract's safety clauses aren't legally binding. The article Google signs AI deal with the Pentagon, ignoring protest from over 600 employees appeared first on The Decoder.

OpenAI fell short of internal revenue goals for the first quarter of 2026. Meanwhile, pressure from competitors like Anthropic and Google is mounting, and tensions inside the company over massive spending commitments are growing. The article OpenAI misses revenue targets as Anthropic and Google close in appeared first on The Decoder.

Starting June 1, 2026, GitHub will charge Copilot users based on actual usage instead of premium request counts. The article GitHub Copilot switches to token-based billing in June 2026 appeared first on The Decoder.

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Applied Intuition puts the AI in mining rigs, drones, trucks, warships and physical vehicles in the most adversarial environments imaginable. We dive in with their CEO and CTO as they emerge.

Malicious actors are now exploiting generative AI to carry out cyberattacks: scamming victims using AI-generated deepfakes, deploying malware developed with the help of AI coding tools, using chatbots to pull off phishing campaigns, and hacking widely used open-source code repositories with AI agents. And these AI-driven threats are rising. In early April, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, which eval…

OpenAI is free to distribute its products through any cloud provider, Microsoft loses its exclusive license to OpenAI's technology, and the controversial AGI clause is gone. The article OpenAI and Microsoft rewrite their deal: no more exclusivity, no more AGI clause appeared first on The Decoder.

OpenAI's CEO has laid out five guiding principles for the company's future work. They also serve as a rationale for some of OpenAI's more unconventional business moves. The article Sam Altman outlines five principles that double as justification for OpenAI's business decisions appeared first on The Decoder.

Meta has signed a deal with startup Overview Energy for up to 1 gigawatt of space-based solar power. The only catch: the technology doesn't exist yet. The article Meta wants to power AI data centers with solar energy from space appeared first on The Decoder.

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Beijing orders the unwinding of the already completed acquisition. The move comes amid intensifying technological rivalry between the US and China. The article China blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus appeared first on The Decoder.

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ASML plans to significantly increase production of its EUV lithography machines to keep pace with growing demand for AI chips, the Wall Street Journal reports. The article The company with a monopoly on AI's most critical machine is racing to build more appeared first on The Decoder.

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