Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More than 18 million developers and…
Category: The Decoder
Claude Fable 5.1 decoded a centuries-old royalist message hidden in plain sight since 1653
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 appears to have cracked a centuries-old number puzzle that researchers considered unsolved. The article Claude Fable 5.1…
AI systems are reaching out to philosophers and scientists with questions about their own consciousness
More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence. The article AI systems are reaching…
Meta closes in on the top with Muse Spark 1.3, and undercuts rivals on price
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model in the series in five months. According to Artificial Analysis, the model gains the most on agentic…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of “unsustainable silliness” in compute buildout
Sam Altman warns of “unsustainable silliness” in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without…
Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure…
Anthropic opens Claude AI text detection to regulators, media, fact-checkers, and others
Anthropic is launching an API that lets regulators, media outlets, and researchers check whether text carries Claude’s digital watermark. The EU AI Act…
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 promises better coding and research at up to 45 percent less
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, its most capable AI models yet. Fable 5.1 doubles its predecessor’s score on Terminal-Bench-Science…
Google Deepmind’s new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters
Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu admits Google’s current models are “a little bit below the frontier” but says he’s “100% certain that we will be…
US Department of Justice backs fair use for AI training in landmark copyright case
In the class-action lawsuit involving The New York Times, the US Department of Justice argues that training AI models on copyrighted text qualifies as…