AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon’s self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is…
Category: The Decoder
Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review
A plaintiff in Connecticut embedded invisible prompt injections in court filings, formatted in 3-point white text on a white background, to manipulate a…
World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training
World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments.…
Suno Studio 2.0’s new chat feature lets you talk to your DAW like it’s a bandmate
With Studio 2.0, Suno turns its AI music platform into a full production tool for Premier subscribers. A chat feature creates instruments and plugins via…
The “tragedy of the cognitive commons” explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions’ expertise
A new research paper frames AI adoption as a “tragedy of the cognitive commons.” Every company that cuts entry-level jobs benefits individually, but the…
New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual perception
Moonshot AI’s PerceptionBench tests how well multimodal AI models can actually “see,” separate from logical reasoning. No frontier model reaches 60…
Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor’s price by 50%
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash. The new model is supposed to be Google’s most capable workhorse yet for coding and AI…
Deepseek ships improved V4 Pro, open-sources its agent software, and raises API prices
Deepseek has moved its flagship V4-Pro out of the testing phase and released its agent software, Harness v0.1, under the MIT license. API prices are going…
Anthropic announces watermark detection API that will let third parties detect Claude’s AI texts
Anthropic will soon offer a watermark detection API that lets third parties check whether text was written by Claude. The technology builds on Google’s…
Alibaba’s Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license
Alibaba’s AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to…