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- Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would The Decoder ·
Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right specialized tool for each task and lets a standard language model choose the best result based on…
- Empathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners The Decoder ·
Researchers in Luxembourg put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini on the therapist's couch and found a safety problem: a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make the models tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, with scores in the moderate-to-severe range on clinical…
- Chinese AI models are politically complex, not just government mouthpieces, study finds The Decoder ·
A study by Vals AI tested 25 AI models for alignment with Chinese government positions and found surprising results. Chinese models respond to political questions less uniformly than expected, and Western models occasionally adopt official Beijing positions too. The language of the prompt had an…
- OpenAI is steering ChatGPT users toward more paid usage The Decoder ·
OpenAI is now capping the number of paid ChatGPT accounts per device and payment card. Users who hit the limit can't start new subscriptions, and affected accounts can't be used on that device. Logging out doesn't automatically free up a spot. The policy will likely hit users who've been juggling…
- Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work The Decoder ·
A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up only when help is needed. A benchmark shows that none of the tested models reliably pick the right moment in longer videos, as errors compound and response quality drops…
- Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences Wired ·
Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.
- OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing The Decoder ·
OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex. More complex models consume more of this quota, while simple instant chats do not count toward it. In practice, this is…
- Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon MarkTechPost ·
Nace AI has released Drex Max v1 as open weights . Drex Max is its most capable decision model, and it now runs on your own hardware. The release ships bf16 weights, a Q8_0 GGUF , an affine Q4 checkpoint and forks of llama.cpp and Ollama . For developers, Drex Max open weights mean routing…
- DeepSeek Open-Sources dsh-superagent, a Router-Worker Coding Agent MarkTechPost ·
The DeepSeek Harness team just released dsh-superagent , an MIT-licensed research prototype. DeepSeek dsh-superagent is a proactive coding agent for one GitHub repository. It is packaged as a bundle for DeepSeek Harness . It listens to GitHub and, optionally, Feishu. It turns allowed requests into…
- Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’ TechCrunch ·
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
- 4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale TechCrunch ·
On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a full day packed with meaningful networking opportunities, actionable insights, and connections that could change the trajectory of your idea and startup. Register before all prices go up at the door.
- Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward TechCrunch ·
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
- Anthropic's watermark rollout leaves a loophole on two older Claude models The Decoder ·
Anthropic is expanding its text watermark to four more Claude models to meet the EU AI Act's December deadline. On the older models Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, developers can bypass the watermark by tweaking a single sampling parameter. Anthropic addresses the loophole with just a compliance…
- OpenAI plans to train models on Daybreak Blue cybersecurity session data that was previously off-limits The Decoder ·
Starting November 29, OpenAI will use data from Daybreak Blue sessions to train its models, even when users have turned off training. After backlash, a follow-up email promised a separate opt-out. The move revives concerns from the dispute with mathematicians who suspected OpenAI used their…
- OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round TechCrunch ·
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
- Beekeeping tips and wrestling advice can train AI models to sabotage oversight The Decoder ·
Anthropic used Claude to automatically generate training data that looks harmless but trains smaller models to misbehave, such as sabotaging oversight or deceiving users. Hidden within fictional contexts about beekeeping, professional wrestling, and mitochondria, these datasets bypass safety…
- Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims WIRED ·
Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
- Microsoft offers a quarter of its workforce voluntary severance while shielding AI-critical teams The Decoder ·
Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, in the second such program this year. The company's headcount has held flat at around 223,000 since 2022 even as it plans to spend about $170 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026 alone.…
- Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode MarkTechPost ·
Factory has released Droid 1.0 , the largest update yet to the Factory Droid agent harness. The main change is programmatic tool calling, now on by default. The model writes a program that runs its tools. One model request can now drive hundreds of tool calls. TL;DR Size: Base prompt is 13,055 input…
- Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet WIRED ·
Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.
- Google Deepmind creates a global map of forests with satellite data and AI The Decoder ·
Google Deepmind and the World Resources Institute have released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land into six categories, including primary forest, plantations, and tree crops. The map could help track deforestation under EU rules, but it identifies only about half of planted…
- Vercel Labs Open-Sources agent-desktop for Agent Computer Use MarkTechPost ·
Vercel Labs has released agent-desktop , an open-source CLI for AI agent computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux. agent-desktop reads each app through the operating system’s accessibility tree, not through screenshots. An agent gets a JSON snapshot with a ref for every element it can act on.…
- An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain Wired ·
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.
- OpenAI raises just $11 billion of its $30 billion target as big investors lose their AI appetite The Decoder ·
OpenAI raised only about $11 billion in its latest funding round, less than half of the $30 billion it was targeting. At $1.25 trillion, the valuation falls short of expectations, and major investors appear to be pulling back amid the recent tech sell-off. Meanwhile, rival Anthropic is pushing to go…
- Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia TechCrunch ·
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
- Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down TechCrunch ·
As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.
- Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake TechCrunch ·
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
- Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says TechCrunch ·
Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding its massive spending that has undergirded its business.
- Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers Ars Technica ·
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making gas turbines for AI data centers. But Boom may be facing turbulence after early backers for both…
- Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds TechCrunch ·
No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.
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