1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (558+ words) Sycophantic chatbots can reinforce delusions and create an "echo chamber of one," a research team argues. Whether the phenomenon deserves its own diagnosis remains contested. A team of researchers from King's College London, University College London, Western Eye Hospital, and…...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago   (378+ words) WeatherNext 3 from Google Research and DeepMind drops traditional physics models and learns directly from real-time satellite data. Google promises five times the detail and hourly updates. Previous AI weather models, including WeatherNext 2, trained on numerical weather prediction (NWP) data. Those…...

3+ hour, 15+ min ago   (206+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux poured some gas on the hype fire. Astra was probably OpenAI's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly…...

3+ hour, 49+ min ago   (483+ words) Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released their first real-time audio perception model. It transcribes speech, tells speakers apart, and detects sentence boundaries during live conversation. The Spark-family model breaks incoming audio into 80-millisecond chunks. After each one, it decides whether to…...

3+ hour, 38+ min ago   (155+ words) the-decoder.com Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model Google releases its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in the Gemini app and via API. According to Google, Lyria 3.5 delivers more expressive vocals and…...

4+ hour, 38+ min ago   (647+ words) Abliteration.ai removes trained refusal mechanisms from powerful open-weight models and sells access to the modified versions as a service. There's a legitimate market for that, but the same setup creates a difficult security trade-off. Anyone with access to an…...

19+ hour, 7+ min ago   (276+ words) the-decoder.com Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism Artificial Analysis has released version 4.2 of its Intelligence Index, likely in response to criticism that its benchmarks failed to capture GPT-6 Astra's actual progress. Earlier, several…...

1+ day, 2+ min ago   (506+ words) OpenAI's model documentation spells out where GPT-6 Astra tends toward unwanted behavior and how developers can work around it. GPT-6 Astra asks clarifying questions more often than GPT-5.6 Sol instead of making assumptions on its own, according to OpenAI, making…...

1+ day, 1+ min ago   (825+ words) A brief conversation with a language model can reduce conspiracy beliefs right after a crisis, even when hard evidence is thin on the ground. The effect carries over to new events weeks later, according to researchers. Within a week of…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (216+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki between May and…...