6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (414+ words) Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster describes how OpenAI pressured him after information about his AI-assisted research leaked, tried to remove his co-author from the paper, and threatened him. Tristan Buckmaster and his co-author Levent Alpöge used AI models to make major progress…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (302+ words) Qwen-Drive 1.0 handles three tasks in one AI model: spatial perception of the environment, answering questions about traffic, and route planning. The researchers confirm that a text-image model doesn't automatically understand three-dimensional space just because it can describe pictures. Qwen-Drive-1.0 builds…...

1+ week, 1+ day 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…...

1+ week, 1+ day 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…...

1+ week, 2+ day 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…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (148+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to top-tier ChatGPT plans at half the rate of GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI has made GPT-6 Astra available to all ChatGPT users on Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium plans through ChatGPT Work and Codex....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (347+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less but remains vulnerable to hidden prompt injections - OpenAI's new model GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less than its predecessor GPT-5.6 Sol and blocks 99.99 percent of direct prompt injection attacks. - Astra also resists jailbreaks more effectively,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (577+ words) OpenAI is rating its upcoming Astra model as the first system with "critical" cyber capabilities, while promising it's also the safest model the company has built. But a report on Astra's architecture raises questions. OpenAI backs up the critical rating…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (212+ words) the-decoder.com IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0 IBM has released its Granite 4.2 language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes. Trained from scratch on about 15 trillion tokens, the models support context windows up to 512,000 tokens and can…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (187+ words) the-decoder.com Taiwanese cybersecurity firm warns that AI tools have more than doubled Chinese state-backed cyberattacks State-backed hacking groups from China have more than doubled their attacks since they started using AI for routine tasks and malware development, according to…...