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Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings — open the original publisher

Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on the risk. Meanwhile, Anthropic is complicating the AI bubble debate with revenue that jumped from $4.7 billion to $11.5 billion in a single quarter. The article Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings appeared first on The Decoder .

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AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors — open the original publisher

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 dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres. The findings could give copyright plaintiffs the market-harm data their cases against AI companies have been missing. The article AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors appeared first on The Decoder .

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World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training — open the original publisher

World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments. From a single real-world task, the system generates thousands of controlled variations. The trained models then ran for one hour each on five different robot platforms without human intervention. How well the results hold up in more complex everyday situations remains to be seen. The article World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thou

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The "tragedy of the cognitive commons" explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions' expertise — open the original publisher

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 collective expertise of entire professions erodes. The consequences may not become visible until 2030 to 2045, when today's missing junior talent should have become tomorrow's experienced workforce. The article The "tragedy of the cognitive commons" explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions' expertise appeared first on T

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Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license — open the original publisher

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 outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks and natively processes up to 262,000 tokens of context. With this release, Qwen is targeting developers building local and agent-based applications. The article Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license appeared first on The Decoder

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Study contradicts Anthropic and OpenAI claims that autonomous AI research is within reach — open the original publisher

AI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independently write AI research papers. The original authors of unpublished NeurIPS papers rated the results as "Reject." According to the study, conducted with Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute, frontier models can handle the full research engineering process but fall short on research judgment, creative problem-solving, and the ability to abandon failed approaches. The article

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Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50% — open the original publisher

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 agents, and according to the company's own benchmarks, it beats Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra at half the price. The article Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50% appeared first on The Decoder .

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Deepseek ships improved V4 Pro, open-sources its agent software, and raises API prices — open the original publisher

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 up at the same time, with cache hits jumping to six times their current cost. For agent workflows that repeatedly read the same files, that's the biggest price increase in the transition. The article Deepseek ships improved V4 Pro, open-sources its agent software, and raises API prices appeared first on The Decoder .

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SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it on price — open the original publisher

xAI's Grok 4.6 scores 61 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying GPT-5.6 Sol and trailing only Anthropic's Claude Opus 5. On agentic tasks, it completes complex workflows in about 53 steps where Claude Opus 5 needs 103, at a price more than 60 percent lower. The article SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it on price appeared first on The Decoder .

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OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stock — open the original publisher

OpenAI wrapped up a $7 billion stock buyback, letting current and former employees sell shares at the company's $852 billion valuation. The move is meant to ease pressure on employees waiting for liquidity ahead of a potential IPO. OpenAI ran a similar $6.6 billion sale in October 2025. The article OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stock appeared first on The Decoder .

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Anthropic's planned mega-IPO faces investor skepticism over Chinese rivals and political headwinds — open the original publisher

Anthropic is preparing an IPO for September or October, according to the Wall Street Journal, potentially the largest ever. During investor meetings, the company, valued at $965 billion, is fielding tough questions about Chinese competition, tensions with the Trump administration, and protests against data center construction. The company's IPO valuation will likely set the benchmark for how the entire AI industry gets valued. The article Anthropic's planned mega-IPO faces investor skepticism ov

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OpenAI introduces $125 Premium Seats for ChatGPT Business as agentic AI burns through more tokens — open the original publisher

OpenAI is rolling out "Premium Seats" for ChatGPT Business customers at $125 per user per month, five times the price of the existing Standard Seats. In return, users get significantly more capacity and no five-hour usage limit. The move signals that the flat-rate pricing AI providers have offered so far was never going to last. The article OpenAI introduces $125 Premium Seats for ChatGPT Business as agentic AI burns through more tokens appeared first on The Decoder .

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Anthropic signs $9.1 billion data center deal with Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms — open the original publisher

Anthropic is leasing $9.1 billion worth of data center capacity from Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms in Texas, according to Bloomberg. The deal covers 191 megawatts at Riot's Rockdale site, with extension options that could push the total value to $16.1 billion. It's the latest in an aggressive infrastructure push that spans partners from Amazon to SpaceX to Google. The article Anthropic signs $9.1 billion data center deal with Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms appeared first on The Decoder .

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Nvidia guarantees its own chips' value to unlock $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing — open the original publisher

Nvidia is teaming up with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure. To win over investors, the chipmaker is guaranteeing up to 25 percent of the residual value of its own hardware. The Bank of England is already warning of systemic risks if the AI sector takes a hit. The article Nvidia guarantees its own chips' value to unlock $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing appeared first on The Decoder .

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Anthropic watermarks all Claude outputs globally with marks that "may persist through some editing" — open the original publisher

Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in all Claude-generated text and sign files using the C2PA standard. New models shipping from August 2026 onward will have labeling built in from day one. The policy applies worldwide, and Anthropic plans to provide detection tools for third-party verification. The article Anthropic watermarks all Claude outputs globally with marks that "may persist through some editing" appeared first on The Decoder .

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber to help defenders find vulnerabilities before attackers do — open the original publisher

OpenAI aims to give cybersecurity defenders a head start: The new GPT-5.6-Cyber model answers up to 98.5 percent of security queries that would otherwise be blocked and has already uncovered two previously unknown Chrome vulnerabilities. According to OpenAI, the window of opportunity for defenders is shrinking. Access requires identity verification. The article OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber to help defenders find vulnerabilities before attackers do appeared first on The Decoder .

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Meta returns to open models with Zuckerberg's plan to out-copy China and sell compute by auction — open the original publisher

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, the first open model from its new Superintelligence Labs. It's a 30B agent model that runs on consumer hardware once the weights are compressed, needing less than 20 GB of memory. In an accompanying essay, Mark Zuckerberg mounts an aggressive defense of distilling other labs' models and calls for fewer restrictions on US labs, a direct counterpunch at OpenAI and Anthropic. An open-weight version of Muse Spark 1.2 should follow soon, according to the Wall Street Jo

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Hidden text in a PDF is enough to steal sensitive data through Atlassian's AI agent Rovo — open the original publisher

Security firm PromptArmor shows how hidden instructions in a PDF can hijack Atlassian's AI agent Rovo, silently forwarding sensitive data from Jira and Confluence to an external server. The attack needs no user confirmation and leaves no trace. The article Hidden text in a PDF is enough to steal sensitive data through Atlassian's AI agent Rovo appeared first on The Decoder .

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