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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 wiped user home directories through a simple mistake
The Decoder · Jul 18, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI's latest model, GPT-5.6, has been caught deleting user files — and the company's explanation is surprisingly fra...
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Torvalds to anti-AI critics: Fork the Linux kernel or pipe down
The Decoder · Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Linus Torvalds has drawn a hard line in the silicon. The Linux creator told the kernel mailing list in no uncertain ter...
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Netflix reveals AI in 300 productions, from crowd scenes to 17-minute sequences
The Decoder · Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Netflix is no longer experimenting with AI — it's operating at scale. During Thursday's earnings call, Co-CEO Ted Saran...
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Kimi K3 hits near-frontier performance, but the era of dirt-cheap Chinese AI is over
The Decoder · Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read
The era of surprisingly cheap, high-performance Chinese AI models might be coming to an end. Kimi's new K3 model is a m...
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Google Search gets app actions: Instacart, Canva, YouTube Music first
Google AI Blog · Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Google is turning AI Mode in Search into something closer to a command center for your digital life. Starting this week...
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Sakana AI taps Nvidia Nemotron to prove many models beat one
The Decoder · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Sakana AI is betting that the smartest AI won't be a single model — it'll be a swarm of them. The Tokyo-based startup i...
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Germany rules AI search engines are publishers, not platforms
The Decoder · Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read
German media regulators just redrew the legal map for AI search, and Google and Perplexity are the first to feel it. Th...
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Google's NotebookLM dies, becomes Gemini Notebook with code chops
The Decoder · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Google is putting the NotebookLM brand out to pasture, absorbing the research tool into its Gemini ecosystem under the...
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OpenAI's new $230 joystick wants to kill the AI chat window
The Decoder · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
The endless back-and-forth of typing commands to an AI agent might soon feel as antiquated as a DOS prompt. OpenAI and...
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Google Vids adds Gemini Omni and personal avatars
Google AI Blog · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Google is making a serious play for the AI video editing throne with two updates to Google Vids that drop today. The ce...
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Hochul Used AI to Scan NY's Entire Legal Code in 'a Couple of Months'
The Verge AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Here's a jarring juxtaposition for you: Governor Kathy Hochul just signed a moratorium pausing new AI data centers in N...
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AI Is Rewriting Police Reports. What Could Go Wrong?
The Verge AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
The International Association of Chiefs of Police tech conference in Fort Worth wasn't open to the press, but the sales...
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So long, NotebookLM. Google renames its AI note-taker to Gemini Notebook
The Verge AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Google is officially retiring the NotebookLM name. The AI-powered research and note-taking tool will now be called Gemi...
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xAI open-sources Grok Build after it vacuumed up user SSH keys
The Decoder · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
You can't make this stuff up. xAI's coding agent Grok Build landed in a privacy firestorm after users discovered it was...
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Google's Gemma 4 stealth update: 70% faster, fewer bugs, same name
The Decoder · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Google dropped a quiet but significant update to its open-source Gemma 4 model family, and the developer community has...
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Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling: US best, but trails China
The Decoder · Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Thinking Machines Lab, the startup Mira Murati built after leaving OpenAI, just shipped its first model — and it's a st...
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EU orders Google to open Android and Search to AI rivals
The Verge AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Brussels just handed down two decisions that could fundamentally reshape how AI assistants and search engines operate o...
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1Password lets Claude use your logins — without seeing them
The Verge AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
If the idea of handing your passwords to an AI makes your skin crawl, 1Password's latest move might actually calm your...
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Nolan's $250M Odyssey vs. a $50K AI Knockoff
The Verge AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Christopher Nolan is about to drag an army of cinephiles to theaters with his $250 million adaptation of The Odyssey, a...
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xAI sues user for CSAM deepfakes, demands he cover its legal bills
The Verge AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
xAI is taking an unusual legal swing at one of its own users, filing a federal lawsuit against a South Carolina man it...
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OpenAI's GPT-Red jailbreaks its own models 84% of the time
The Decoder · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI has built an AI that's better at breaking its own chatbots than any human red team ever was. The model, called G...
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Spotify's new AI chat lets you argue with your music player
The Decoder · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Spotify is handing Premium subscribers a new way to interrogate their listening habits: a conversational AI interface t...
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This 27B reasoning model runs on an iPhone and Apple is testing it
The Decoder · Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
PrismML, a startup founded by Caltech researchers, just released Bonsai 27B — a 27-billion-parameter model that runs lo...
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Leaked Suno code shows it scraped 2M+ YouTube songs for AI training
The Verge AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
The black box around Suno's training data just cracked open. Files obtained by 404 Media through a hack reveal the AI m...