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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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns against attributing religious power to AI models, calling it a "real safety issue." His comments follow reports on Anthropic's meetings with religious thinkers and a statement by Pope Leo XIV on AI. As recently as 2024, Altman himself spoke of building "magic intelligence in the sky" and feeling "on the side of the angels" working on AI. The article Apparently, OpenAI isn't trying to build "magic intelligence in the sky" anymore appeared first on The Decoder .

Meta announced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets hobbyists build their own AI hardware using ESP32 boards and connect it to Meta's AI agent Muse. The team also produced 5,000 units of the "Muse Home Link," a USB-C device for smart home control. The open-source approach also helps Meta figure out which AI hardware form factors people actually want. The article "Muse Gadgets" turns AI hardware into an open-source DIY project appeared first on The Decoder .