OpenAI hires Dan Driscoll, the former civilian head of the US Army, as “Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization,” likely to win government…
Category: The Decoder
GPT-6 Astra sees the matrix and reprograms other AI models directly through their weights
MIT researchers show that OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra can read and deliberately rewrite the weights of other AI models without traditional training. In one…
Anthropic’s new prototype proves which model wrote an AI response without exposing its weights
Anthropic has released FlashProve, a research prototype that uses cryptography to verify whether an AI response actually came from the claimed model. The…
Anthropic’s Message Threads cut time to first token by 35 percent for long conversations
Anthropic released Message Threads for the Messages API. Instead of resending the entire conversation with every turn, agents now only transmit what’s…
Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business
Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies. The article Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China…
Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market
Huawei is telling customers to source the high-performance memory for its AI chips on their own, pushing them onto the black market. Smugglers are…
Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security
OpenAI quadruples bug bounty payouts and launches new internal security sprint. The article Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company…
Exit polls show AI ranked last among voter priorities in the 2026 U.S. midterms
In the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, AI ranked last among campaign issues: only 56 percent of respondents cited AI and data centers as an important factor.…
Schools that turn off Google’s AI will lose search too starting in 2027
Starting in 2027, Google plans to turn off AI features in its school products by default, letting schools decide what to enable. The catch: schools that…
Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers
Goldman Sachs is pulling AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot from traders and bankers, limiting access to engineers only. As recently as…