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Artificial intelligence is either a field of research, the most important technical innovation of mankind, its downfall – or simply a pipe dream from Silicon Valley. Can machines really be intelligent? What is intelligence anyway? What opportunities does AI technology offer, and what are the risks? From neural networks to the science fiction vision of super AI, from deepfakes to AI surveillance: THE DECODER delivers the latest AI news and information on all facets of artificial intelligence.

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OpenAI launches new ChatGPT agent that automates complex tasks for Pro, Plus, and Team

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OpenAI releases its first open-weight language models since GPT-2 with GPT-oss

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Google upgrades Gemini with Deep Think and flags early warning risks

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Google's latest AI features are now reaching billions of users each month.

AI Overviews, which display AI-generated summaries directly in Google Search, have rolled out to over 200 countries and now serve two billion monthly users. For searches where this feature appears, Google is seeing more than a 10% increase in search activity.

The Gemini app has reached 450 million monthly active users, with daily requests up more than 50% compared to the previous quarter. The new AI Mode, a chat interface built into Search, has already surpassed 100 million monthly active users in the US and India.

Google's text-to-video model Veo 3 has been used to generate over 70 million videos since May. The Google Vids tool, built on Veo, now approaches one million monthly active users.

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OpenAI has set the date for its next DevDay: October 6, 2025, in San Francisco. With over 1,500 developers expected, the company says that this will be the largest event of its kind so far. The agenda includes a live-streamed keynote, hands-on workshops featuring the latest models and tools, and more stages and demos than last year. Details are still under wraps, but you can sign up for updates here.

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Sam Altman warns: AI has already broken common authentication methods – and banks aren’t responding.

“A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some financial institutions that will accept a voice print as authentication for you to move a lot of money or do something else — you say a challenge phrase, and they just do it,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at a Federal Reserve event. “That is a crazy thing to still be doing… AI has fully defeated most of the ways that people authenticate currently, other than passwords.”

Altman spoke of a “significant, impending fraud crisis” and emphasized that AI-driven voice and video spoofing is already a real risk – with potentially dramatic consequences for the financial sector.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei admits his company is making compromises with authoritarian regimes in the race to build advanced AI.

"Unfortunately, I think 'No bad person should ever benefit from our success' is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on," Amodei wrote in an internal Slack message to staff, obtained by WIRED. "This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it."

Amodei acknowledged that Anthropic will seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, even though this would "enrich dictators." Previously, Amodei had argued that "Democracies need to be able to set the terms by which powerful AI is brought into the world, both to avoid being overpowered by authoritarians and to prevent human rights abuses within authoritarian countries." Explaining the shift, he pointed to the vast amounts of capital available in the Middle East: "There is a truly giant amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $100B or more. If we want to stay on the frontier, we gain a very large benefit from having access to this capital. Without it, it is substantially harder to stay on the frontier."

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