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Policy schneier.com 5:05 PM

Friday Squid Blogging: New Giant Squid Video

Pretty fantastic video from Japan of a giant squid eating another squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.

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Product techcrunch.com Dawn's Pick 4:38 PM

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.

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Product wired.com Paywalled 3:56 PM

OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company

The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.

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Product the-decoder.com 2:59 PM

Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 gives robots a sharper brain for planning and perception

Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 helps robots plan and act more precisely, with a new knack for reading measuring instruments. The article Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 gives robots a sharper brain for planning and perception appeared first on The Decoder.

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Product the-decoder.com 2:45 PM

Google finds new ways to keep you from ever visiting a website directly again

Google is pushing AI mode deeper into Chrome: websites will soon open directly next to the AI response. That makes the traditional page visit even less relevant. The article Google finds new ways to keep you from ever visiting a website directly again appeared first on The Decoder.

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Security the-decoder.com Dawn's Pick 2:30 PM

The White House weighs whether Anthropic's Mythos is too valuable for the federal government to refuse

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles at the White House to end a months-long standoff with the Pentagon. The new Mythos model's cybersecurity chops reportedly opened the door. The article The White House weighs whether Anthropic's Mythos is too valuable for the federal government to refuse appeared first on Th...

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Research the-decoder.com Dawn's Pick 2:11 PM

Alibaba's open model Qwen3.6 leads Google's Gemma 4 across agentic coding benchmarks

Alibaba's new open-source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B activates just three of its 35 billion parameters at a time, yet beats Google's larger Gemma 4-31B on coding and reasoning benchmarks. The article Alibaba's open model Qwen3.6 leads Google's Gemma 4 across agentic coding benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder.

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Product the-decoder.com 1:44 PM

ChatGPT bleeds market share as Claude posts explosive monthly growth

Claude doubles its market share in a single month, jumping past Deepseek and Grok. ChatGPT still leads the pack but is losing ground fast, especially to Google Gemini, which now captures a quarter of all AI traffic. The article ChatGPT bleeds market share as Claude posts explosive monthly growth appeared first on The Decoder.

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Product theverge.com 1:13 PM

OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as part of an effort to avoid "side quests," and Peebles' departure is just one of many recent changes as the company […]

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Funding the-decoder.com 12:52 PM

Some OpenAI shareholders reportedly question whether Altman can steer the company to a public offering

With OpenAI's planned IPO valuing the company at around $850 billion, internal doubts about Sam Altman are reportedly growing. According to the Wall Street Journal, some shareholders are already floating a potential successor. The article Some OpenAI shareholders reportedly question whether Altman can steer the company to a public offering appea...

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Product theverge.com 12:42 PM

Should you stare into Sam Altman’s orb before your next date?

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, initially tested Tinder verification using its facial scanning orbs through […]

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Tools huggingface.co 12:17 PM

Building a Fast Multilingual OCR Model with Synthetic Data

Product the-decoder.com 12:16 PM

Anthropic's Claude Design turns chatbot conversations into prototypes, slide decks, and marketing assets

Anthropic is launching Claude Design, a new tool that lets users create and refine designs, interactive prototypes, presentation slides, and one-pagers through a back-and-forth conversation with Claude. The tool can pull in codebases, design files, and live websites to match existing brand styles. The article Anthropic's Claude Design turns chat...

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Security theverge.com Dawn's Pick 12:14 PM

Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic's buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Pr...

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Hardware techcrunch.com 11:57 AM

Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release p...

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Opinion news.ycombinator.com 11:29 AM

Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session

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Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs

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Opinion news.ycombinator.com 11:04 AM

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Opinion techcrunch.com 11:00 AM

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.

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Product blog.google 10:00 AM

7 ways to travel smarter this summer, with help from Google

Illustration showing a person with a Pixel phone in a beach town farmers' market by the water

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Opinion news.ycombinator.com 9:55 AM

Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Policy 404media.co Paywalled 9:00 AM

The Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists Discover

A rare class of meteorites called angrites likely come from a strange protoplanet that was catastrophically destroyed in the early solar system, leaving only fragmentary remnants.

Hardware techcrunch.com 9:00 AM

Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release p...

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Tools the-decoder.com 8:22 AM

Google finds new ways to keep you from ever clicking a link again

Google is pushing AI mode deeper into Chrome: websites will soon open directly next to the AI response. That makes the traditional page visit even less relevant. The article Google finds new ways to keep you from ever clicking a link again appeared first on The Decoder.

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Research the-decoder.com 7:57 AM

Physical Intelligence shows robot model with LLM-like generalization, flaws included

US start-up Physical Intelligence has introduced π0.7, a new robot foundation model designed to recombine skills learned during training, similar to how a language model reassembles text fragments from its training data. The researchers describe this as early signs of "compositional generalization" in robotics. The article Physical Intelligence ...

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Product theverge.com 7:46 AM

Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "encourage customers to add more food to their orders," according to The Wall Street Journal. Following a […]

Security schneier.com 7:02 AM

Mythos and Cybersecurity

Last week, Anthropic pulled back the curtain on Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model so capable at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that the company decided it was too dangerous to release to the public. Instead, access has been restricted to roughly 50 organizations—Microsoft, Apple, Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike and other vendo...

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Research the-decoder.com 7:00 AM

OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a reasoning model built for life sciences research

OpenAI has introduced GPT-Rosalind, a reasoning model tailored for the life sciences. It's designed to help researchers move faster from hypothesis to experiment. Access is tightly controlled for now. The article OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a reasoning model built for life sciences research appeared first on The Decoder.

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Product theneurondaily.com Paywalled 6:00 AM

😺 Anthropic shipped Opus 4.7. OpenAI countered.

PLUS: the CLAUDE.md trick every Claude pro uses.

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Research mit.edu 5:40 AM

Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners

The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT.

Funding the-decoder.com 5:01 AM

Beijing brands Meta's Manus acquisition as "conspiratorial" and bars founders from leaving China

China's National Security Commission, led by President Xi Jinping, has branded Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus a "conspiratorial" attempt to hollow out the country's technology base, the Financial Times reports. The article Beijing brands Meta's Manus acquisition as "conspiratorial" and bars founders from leaving China appeared...

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