The Decoder

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The DecoderOpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week OpenAI's hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device for the Codex coding agent in under a week, handling everything from the enclosure to the circuit board to the firmware.

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The DecoderRapid LLM development is outrunning the research meant to explain it, study finds Stanford researchers tested 50 widely cited claims about LLMs against 20 current models. 44 percent of the findings are already "expired," and another 34 percent have weakened significantly.

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The DecoderAI agents take over at SETI's Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen are now using AI agents at the Allen Telescope Array to control the telescope and analyze incoming radio signals.

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The DecoderOpenAI hires ex-Army Secretary, gaining bipartisan reach just as midterms loom OpenAI hires Dan Driscoll, the former civilian head of the US Army, as "Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization," likely to win government contracts and help shape AI rules for the…

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The DecoderAnthropic'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 changed.

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The DecoderNvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies.

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The DecoderHuawei 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 exploiting a loophole in U.S.

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The DecoderBug 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.

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The DecoderAnthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs Anthropic is blocking its coding assistant Claude Code from recreating existing video games.

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The DecoderGoldman 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.

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The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo