#Artificial Intelligence

Insurers are bracing for millions in claims from rogue AI agents, and executives like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei could be personally on the hook for the fallout. The article Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control appeared first on The Decoder .

Mistral's Large 4 is the company's biggest model yet, with one trillion parameters trained on its own European infrastructure. In the independent Intelligence Index, the model makes a big leap forward but still falls well short of Claude, GPT-6, and Chinese competitors. Mistral's main pitch is cybersecurity work that closed US models refuse to do. The article Mistral Large 4 is Europe's trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work appeared first on The Decoder .

South Korea wants to develop a homegrown frontier model through government-backed equity investments of 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion). The article South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best appeared first on The Decoder .

Reflection has released Beam, its first open-weight model. The mixture-of-experts system activates just 23 billion of its 501 billion parameters per token and aims to match GLM 5.2 on coding and reasoning while using three to four times less compute. The strategy against Chinese open-weight rivals like Deepseek and Qwen is efficiency over raw performance. The article Reflection's Beam becomes the most capable open-weight model built outside China appeared first on The Decoder .

Researchers at PhAI Labs have expanded Yann LeCun's JEPA architecture to work across seven fields, from robotics to biomedicine. The effort also produced a liver cancer treatment candidate that showed promise in lab tests, though the study doesn't establish whether it could become an actual therapy. The article Researchers stretch LeCun's JEPA AI into a universal world model that works from physics to biology appeared first on The Decoder .

Deepseek is close to raising at least $12 billion in a new funding round, Bloomberg reports. The article CATL and Tencent back Deepseek's ballooning funding round as the AI startup eyes a 2027 IPO appeared first on The Decoder .

Cohere turned its enterprise platform into a control center for AI agents with North 2, handling multi-step workflows on their own and retaining context across sessions. The article Cohere pitches North 2 as the enterprise AI control room that works with any model appeared first on The Decoder .

Meta and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest enterprise customers, are sharply cutting their use of Claude. Microsoft slashed the monthly per-employee budget in its cloud division from $100,000 to $10,000, while Meta halved its Claude Code users to 30,000. Both companies are pushing their own AI tools instead. For Anthropic, that reliance on a few major clients is turning into a strategic risk. The article Meta and Microsoft pull back from Claude as Anthropic transforms from partner into competitor appeared first on The Decoder .

Reka AI's Rho-1 is a 19-billion-parameter omni-model that processes and generates text, images, video, and robot control actions in a single neural network. Trained on 320 H100 GPUs in about three months, it uses a fraction of the compute today's top models need. Instead of routing tasks to specialized systems, Rho-1 runs all modalities as tokens in one shared context window. The article Reka AI's omni-model Rho-1 handles text, images, video, and robot control in a single model appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI is adding invisible textGrain watermarks to ChatGPT in the EU, but unlike Anthropic, it will let API customers worldwide opt out. Tests show detection rates as high as 95 percent, dropping to 17 percent when a quarter of the words are replaced. The article OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT text in the EU but makes it optional for API users worldwide appeared first on The Decoder .

According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 77 percent of Americans want to slow down or stop AI development until its safety has been verified. 86 percent support independent safety standards, and 74 percent have little or no trust in AI company leaders. "[…] the public wants safeguards that do not depend simply on taking company leaders at their word," said researcher Chetan Jaiswal. The article Most Americans want AI development to slow down or stop entirely, new poll finds appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic employees donated $540 million in 2025 alone, nearly five times as much as the next-largest Fortune 500 donors, thanks to a company program that tops up every stock donation with extra shares and triples contributions from early employees. The article Anthropic is quietly becoming America's biggest corporate donor ahead of its mega IPO appeared first on The Decoder .

Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a German-English mixture-of-experts model with 78 billion parameters, about three billion of which are active per token. Over 21 percent of the training data is German. The model was trained on 768 B200 GPUs in Germany and Finland, and the weights are freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. The article Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open-weight model that makes the case for European AI sovereignty appeared first on The Decoder .

ChatGPT users in the US will soon see display ads while the chatbot generates an image for them. The article ChatGPT's new ad format fills the image generation loading screen with product carousels appeared first on The Decoder .

An MIT expert committee warns that AI is eroding key parts of the college experience: office hours, study groups, and the school's flagship research program for undergraduates are all fading. Trust between faculty and students is breaking down, and some professors are even considering AI agents instead of students as research assistants. The university most closely tied to AI's origin story is now calling for a complete overhaul of higher education. The article AI is eroding office hours, study groups, and the trust between faculty and students, MIT report finds appeared first on The Decoder .

Donald Trump has established a "Super Intelligence Force." "Superintelligence" is his term for artificial intelligence. The unit is led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and other government officials, coordinates with AI companies, critical infrastructure operators, and interest groups. The group reports directly to the president. The article Trump launches "Super Intelligence Force" that has nothing to do with actual superintelligence appeared first on The Decoder .

Self-improving AI agents tend to memorize their test tasks, so their gains shrink or disappear on new ones. RRSI, a new method from Google researchers, reins in this effect and lifts scores on unseen benchmarks by up to 4.7 points while using about 30 percent fewer tokens than an unregularized version. The article Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests appeared first on The Decoder .

NASA and IBM have released the Lunar Foundation Model, one of the first open-source AI models for lunar science. Trained on nearly 2 million tile bundles, mostly from 17 years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, it cuts the error in predicting polar ice deposits. The article NASA and IBM's open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science appeared first on The Decoder .

Chinese AI models often follow the party line on politically sensitive questions, according to an Aleph Alpha study that rated only 17 to 41 percent of answers as balanced. Aleph Alpha sells "sovereign AI" to governments, giving it a commercial interest in distinguishing its models from Chinese competitors. The article Chinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive topics appeared first on The Decoder .

Starting in October 2026, Google will cut free access to its Gemini models. Users without a subscription will only get the smallest model, Flash-Lite, while Flash and Pro will be reserved for paying customers. The move could also set the stage for the more resource-hungry Gemini 4 Argon. The article Google's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro appeared first on The Decoder .