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Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers.
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So-called reasoning models are more efficient but not more capable than regular LLMs, study finds

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Google leans on token metrics, not revenue, adding to bubble talk about AI growth

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The long-predicted deepfake dystopia has arrived with Sora 2

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ChatGPT now offers instant checkout directly in the chat, letting users complete purchases without leaving the conversation. The feature is rolling out first for logged-in US users on ChatGPT (Pro, Plus, and Free) shopping on Etsy, with support for more than one million Shopify merchants coming soon. The new Agentic Commerce Protocol, developed by OpenAI and Stripe and released as open source, handles everything from product recommendations to payment entirely within the chat. Merchants interested in joining can sign up through OpenAI's form.

OpenAI will likely use this feature to monetize free ChatGPT users by taking a cut of purchases made through the chat, creating a new revenue stream to help cover operating costs. With ambitious sales targets and mounting costs through 2030, this move is a practical step for the company.

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Physicist David Deutsch argues that you can't test for AGI the way you test a piece of software. Instead, what sets humans apart is that they have their own history, shaped by choosing what matters to them in the first place.

"How do we know that people are general intelligences? By telling their story. Human thinking is not about mechanically translating motivations into actions - prompts into output. It is primarily about choosing motivations. Just as science is not about extracting theories from data, but about seeing a problem, guessing at explanations, criticizing and testing them."

Deutsch responds to a test proposed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: if a future GPT-8 could solve quantum gravity and explain why it picked that problem and how it arrived at its solution, Deutsch says that would be convincing evidence of general intelligence.

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Meta has rolled out "Vibes," a new short-form video feed in the Meta AI app featuring AI-generated clips. Users can create original videos, remix existing ones, or simply scroll through the feed. For now, Meta is partnering with Midjourney and Black Forest Labs, with its own video models still in development.

Meta's "Vibes" feed lets users generate, remix, and browse short AI-created videos. | Video: Meta

Meta is also exploring outside AI tools for other products. The company is reportedly in talks with Google to use fine-tuned Gemini models to improve ad targeting. The move highlights the current limits of Meta's own AI ambitions.

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DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek's latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble

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Frustrated authors withdraw papers after realizing their reviewers are just lazy LLMs

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Gemini 3 Pro tops new AI reliability benchmark, but hallucination rates remain high

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