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Anthropic signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion in eleven months but still trails OpenAI's $750 billion plan through 2030. In early 2026, CEO Dario Amodei warned against investing too fast. Now Anthropic is racing to catch up, while…
GPT-6 Astra beat the puzzle game Portal entirely on its own in about 24 hours, with zero human help after the initial goal was set. Developer cozyblaze published the code and docs on GitHub. His takeaway: Astra is "the worst…
ChatGPT has pushed its share of AI chatbot website traffic back up to 55.5 percent, according to Similarweb. Year-over-year, though, its lead shrank sharply from 73.3 percent as Gemini doubled its share and Claude grew nearly fivefold. Mobile apps and…
A study in Nature Biotechnology suggests that rentosertib, a drug designed with AI by Insilico Medicine, may reverse markers of biological aging. Six independent aging clocks predicted that treated patients were biologically up to six years younger than the placebo…
In Kenya, ChatGPT wiped out an entire business model: writing academic papers for foreign students. The article How AI wiped out an entire industry in Nairobi appeared first on The Decoder.
Swiss banking giant UBS is making AI skills a required qualification from 2027 for graduates and interns in Global Banking and Markets, with applicants having to show in interviews how they use AI to improve outcomes and efficiency. Santander is…
MG Ship has introduced an AI route optimisation and carrier selection module as logistics deployments demonstrate rapid cost and time returns. The technical module targets global retailers and commercial shippers, pairing automated routing algorithms with carrier recommendation systems across international…
New York City bans AI use in public schools through the end of middle school. The article New York City bans AI tools from public schools through eighth grade appeared first on The Decoder.
Alibaba's research arm has released Qwen-Drive 1.0, an AI model that handles environmental perception, traffic Q&A, and route planning in one system. The researchers show that text-image models don't automatically understand three-dimensional space. Spatial awareness has to be trained on…
When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
Most open model launches release one checkpoint and a benchmark table. The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released something wider last week. IFM is the frontier lab launched by MBZUAI in May 2025. K2 Horizon is a fleet of six…
