the-decoder

Stargate's $500 billion AI infrastructure project reportedly stalls over unresolved disputes between OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank

The Stargate project, a $500 billion AI data center initiative announced by Trump and backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank, is stalling more than a year after its unveiling. According to The ...
the-decoder

Hollywood's MPA calls Bytedance's Seedance 2.0 a machine built for "systemic infringement"

Update from February 22, 2026: Bytedance's promises (see below) apparently aren't cutting it for Hollywood. The Motion Picture Association has sent the company a cease-and-desist letter over Seedance ...
the-decoder

Anthropic's new AI security tool sends cybersecurity stocks tumbling

Anthropic has launched Claude Code Security, a new tool that detects security vulnerabilities in code that traditional rule-based scanners typically miss. Rather than matching known patterns, the tool ...
the-decoder

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises one billion dollars for "spatial intelligence"

World Labs, the AI startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised one billion dollars in a new funding round. Backers include Autodesk, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD, according to a blog ...
the-decoder

A printed sign can hijack a self-driving car and steer it toward pedestrians, study shows

A sign with the right text is enough to make a drone land on an unsafe roof or steer an autonomous vehicle into pedestrians. A self-driving car reads road signs to navigate safely, but that ability ...
the-decoder

OpenAI opens GPT-5.2 Codex to developers through the Responses API

OpenAI has released GPT-5.2 Codex to developers through the Responses API. The model was previously limited to the Codex environment. According to OpenAI Developers, it excels at complex, tedious ...
the-decoder

China captured the global lead in open-weight AI development during 2025, Stanford analysis shows

At least a dozen Chinese institutions now produce state-of-the-art AI models, and in terms of global distribution, they've apparently already overtaken their US competitors, according to a new ...
the-decoder

OpenAI launches healthcare product line, signs up major US hospitals

OpenAI has introduced "OpenAI for Healthcare," a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT and its API, with partners including Boston Children's Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and ...
the-decoder

Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on

After her comments attracted significant attention, Dogan clarifies her original assessment. To "cut through the noise," as she puts it: Google has built several versions of the system over the past ...
the-decoder

"You certainly don't tell a researcher like me what to do" says LeCun as he exits Meta for his own startup

Yann LeCun, Meta's outgoing AI chief scientist, has acknowledged that Llama 4 benchmark results were manipulated. Following the admission, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly lost confidence in those ...
the-decoder

Moonshot AI closes $500 million Series C to fund Kimi-K3 development and expand computing capacity

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, has closed a $500 million Series C funding round. The deal values the company at $4.3 billion, according to an exclusive report ...
the-decoder

Microsoft CEO Nadella tells managers Copilot's Gmail and Outlook integrations ‘don't really work’ and steps in to fix them

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly slamming the company's AI assistant behind closed doors and stepping in to fix it himself. A few weeks ago, Nadella emailed engineering managers working on ...