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Google's Veo 3.1 Lite cuts video generation costs by more than half
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (179+ words) Google's Veo 3.1 Lite cuts video generation costs by more than half'the-decoder.com Google's Veo 3.1 Lite cuts video generation costs by more than half Google Deepmind is launching Veo 3.1 Lite, its most affordable video generation model yet. It costs less than…...
Anthropic accidentally publishes Claude Code source code for anyone to find
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (153+ words) Anthropic accidentally publishes Claude Code source code for anyone to find'the-decoder.com Anthropic accidentally publishes Claude Code source code for anyone to find Anthropic inadvertently published parts of the source code for its AI coding tool, Claude Code. Developers discovered…...
Qwen3.5-Omni learned to write code from spoken instructions and video without anyone training it to
8+ hour, 7+ min ago (509+ words) Alibaba has released Qwen3.5-Omni, an omnimodal AI model that processes text, images, audio, and video. It claims to beat Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio tasks and picked up an unexpected trick along the way: writing code from spoken instructions and video…...
OpenAI launches a Codex plugin that runs inside Anthropic's Claude Code
9+ hour, 12+ min ago (353+ words) OpenAI released a plugin that embeds its AI coding assistant Codex directly into Anthropic's Claude Code. The plugin offers three core features: a standard code review, a more aggressive "adversarial review" that specifically challenges weaknesses and design decisions, and the…...
AI models confidently describe images they never saw, and benchmarks fail to catch it
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (843+ words) Multimodal AI models like GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.5 generate detailed image descriptions and medical diagnoses even when no image is provided. A Stanford study shows that common benchmarks obscure the problem. The researchers call this the "mirage effect....
Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork more broadly and lets AI models check each other's work
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (193+ words) Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork more broadly and lets AI models check each other's work'the-decoder.com Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork more broadly and lets AI models check each other's work Microsoft is making "Copilot Cowork" more widely available and…...
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Science VP Kevin Weil hype AI-assisted dog cancer story ignoring there's no proof the vaccine worked
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (514+ words) Update, March 29, 2026: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and VP of Science Kevin Weil used the story to promote their own narrative. Weil wrote that Paul had used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to create a personalized mRNA vaccine protocol for his dog's cancer,…...
MetaClaw framework trains AI agents while you're in meetings by checking your Google Calendar
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (525+ words) Researchers from four US universities have built a framework that improves AI agents during operation. It checks the user's Google calendar to figure out when to train. Most AI agents built on large language models get trained once and then…...
AI sycophancy makes people less likely to apologize and more likely to double down, study finds
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (730+ words) A study published in Science is the first to systematically measure how much AI language models engage in social sycophancy and what it does to people. Across three experiments with 2,405 participants, researchers found that even a single sycophantic interaction made…...
Naver's "Seoul World Model" uses actual Street View data to stop AI from hallucinating entire cities
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (655+ words) South Korean internet giant Naver built a video world model grounded in actual city geometry from over a million of its own Street View images. The model generalizes to other cities without any fine-tuning. Previous video world models produce visually…...