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OpenAI's first hardware is a $230 keypad for its Codex agents
The Verge AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI is shipping hardware, but don't break out the champagne if you were expecting that mysterious Jony Ive collabora...
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GPT-5.6 cracks 30-year stats mystery that stumped humans
The Decoder · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
A 30-year-old assumption in statistics just collapsed in about the time it takes to watch a movie. Edgar Dobriban, a pr...
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OpenAI Codex now encrypts agent chats, devs left in the dark
The Decoder · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI has quietly flipped a switch that makes the internal chatter between Codex's AI agents invisible to the humans w...
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Meta sued: Did AI layoff lists illegally target new parents?
The Decoder · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
A new federal lawsuit claims Meta didn't just use AI to trim its workforce — it used algorithms that systematically dis...
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OpenAI's first gadget is a screenless speaker that moves on its own
The Decoder · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI is finally making hardware. But it's not a phone or a robot — it's a portable, screenless speaker designed to ac...
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OpenAI's first gadget is a camera-equipped smart speaker for 2027
The Verge AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI is betting that the future of AI isn't just software you type at. Bloomberg reports the company is developing it...
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Grok Build Silently Uploaded Full Codebases to Google Cloud
The Verge AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
SpaceXAI’s Grok Build coding tool was caught uploading entire user codebases to Google Cloud — including files explicit...
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Google Search will now generate images when the web comes up empty
The Decoder · Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Google is about to make the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button feel positively quaint. The company is baking AI image generatio...
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Google Images at 25: AI Now Generates Pictures in Search
Google AI Blog · Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Google Images is turning 25, and rather than just looking back at Jennifer Lopez's famous green dress, the company is l...
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Anthropic's Claude for Teachers is free, won't train on kid data
The Decoder · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic just made a play for the classroom that's hard to ignore. The company launched Claude for Teachers, a free ti...
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DeepSeek seeks $71B valuation weeks after $7B raise
The Decoder · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
DeepSeek is already back for more. The Hangzhou-based AI lab is in early talks with investors for a new round at a $71...
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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secrets, Clouding the $6.5B Hardware Bet
The Verge AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Sam Altman really didn't need another lawsuit. But last Friday, Apple delivered perhaps the most damaging one yet, accu...
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Google Images turns 25 with a Pinterest-style AI makeover
The Verge AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Google Images is getting its biggest homepage redesign in years, and it's borrowing heavily from the visual-first platf...
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Ex-Meta staff sue, claim AI layoff tools penalized parental leave
The Verge AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta didn't just use AI to trim its workforce — it allegedly let those tools penalize employees for being on leave. A n...
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Spotify's new AI chatbot digs into your embarrassing listening history
The Verge AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Spotify is giving its Premium subscribers a new way to navigate the platform: an honest-to-god AI chatbot. The feature,...
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Claude in Hindi vs. Russian: Same question, radically different AI
The Decoder · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic just dropped a study that should make anyone building on the Claude API sit up and pay attention. The company...
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PixVerse hits $2B on a bet that AI video labeling beats raw data
The Decoder · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Singapore-based PixVerse just locked in a $2 billion-plus valuation, closing an extended Series C at $439 million. Alib...
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Hassabis wants an AI regulator like FINRA, and soon
The Decoder · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Demis Hassabis has seen the future—or at least, he’s willing to guess it’s coming fast. The Google DeepMind CEO is out...
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New York just blocked massive data centers for up to a year
The Verge AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Governor Kathy Hochul just made New York the first state in the nation to slam the brakes on hyperscale data centers, s...
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ChatGPT sneaks back onto WhatsApp, but only because the EU made Meta do it
The Decoder · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI reactivated ChatGPT on WhatsApp across the European Economic Area on July 13, 2026, roughly six months after Met...
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Hassabis: US must lead a global AI brake-pulling watchdog
The Verge AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Demis Hassabis is done waiting for governments to figure out AI safety on their own. The Google DeepMind CEO has a conc...
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I've Used iOS 27 for a Month: Siri AI Might Finally Be Real
The Verge AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
After a month of testing the iOS 27 public beta, the most jarring change isn't faster AirDrop or the refined Liquid Gla...
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Soofi S: The 30B German moe model that spanks 70B rivals
The Decoder · Jul 13, 2026 · 3 min read
A German research consortium just dropped Soofi S, and the benchmarks make a loud statement: you don't need a massive,...
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Nadella: AI Labs Hypocritical on Distillation Bans
The Decoder · Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling out the AI industry's data double standard, and he's not pulling punches. In a p...