Anthropic hit $16.8 billion in third-quarter revenue, a 45 percent gain that still falls far short of Q2’s 140 percent surge. With a November IPO…
Category: The Decoder
Is AI interpretability close to a breakthrough? A new essay has researchers divided
Neural networks may be much easier to read than researchers assumed, with about 90 percent of neurons serving a clear function. That would be big news for…
OpenAI’s new Rosalind Academic Plan gives research labs up to 30 free seats for a year
OpenAI is launching the Rosalind Academic Plan, a free offering that’s currently open only to research labs at US universities without an enterprise…
Anthropic gives METR inside access to audit its AI models and safety practices
Anthropic has given a team from the nonprofit METR inside access to review its AI models and safety practices, the company announced. The article…
Google says self-improving AI isn’t anywhere close
Google engineer Haydn Belfield says there’s no measurable acceleration of AI research driven by AI at Deepmind. AI now writes more than 75 percent of…
Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it
For the first time, researchers have tracked down an uncontrolled fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and communicated with them via a web mailbox. The…
OpenAI will reportedly ship at least one model this year but its flagship still needs alignment work
OpenAI is racing to finish its next flagship model, which uses the same looped transformer technique as Astra to boost math and coding performance. The…
Muse Spark Open is Meta’s answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race
Meta’s Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens…
Google wants Gemini 4 Argon to be the only AI model robots need
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon controls robots, generates simulations from photos or sketches, and evaluates training videos. On Google’s own ERQA benchmark, it…
Black Forest Labs’ open-weights image model FLUX 3 Image Klein runs on consumer GPUs with just 8 GB of VRAM
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter open-weights image model that supports native 4K generation, pixel-precise…