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Matthias Bastian

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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Jul 4, 2025
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Read full article about: EU publishers claim Google's AI Overviews reduce their web traffic and hurt their revenue

A group of independent EU publishers has filed a complaint to the European Commission over Google's AI Overviews feature. They claim Google uses their content to generate AI-written summaries without permission, reducing web traffic and harming revenue. According to the complaint, publishers cannot opt out of the AI feature unless they also give up visibility in Google Search. The group is supported by Foxglove Legal and the Movement for an Open Web, and is requesting interim measures to stop what they describe as ongoing, irreparable damage. Google's AI Overviews pull information from websites to create short answers directly in search results without giving back traffic or compensation to the original publishers.

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Jul 3, 2025
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Read full article about: Ilya Sutskever says, "We have the compute, we have the team, and we know what to do"

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, is now CEO of his new startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI). Daniel Gross, who was previously CEO, left the company on June 29 to join Meta. Mark Zuckerberg's company is currently hiring top AI researchers and has recruited several people from OpenAI. Daniel Levy is the new president of SSI. In a message to staff and investors, Sutskever said SSI will stay independent, despite interest from other companies, likely Meta. SSI recently raised $2 billion in funding.

We have the compute, we have the team, and we know what to do. Together we will keep building safe superintelligence.

Ilya Sutskever

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Jul 2, 2025
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Read full article about: Black Forest Labs opens its AI image model FLUX.1 context [dev] for private use

Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.1 context [dev], a 12-billion parameter AI image model, for free non-commercial use on HuggingFace. It runs on standard hardware and supports ComfyUI, HuggingFace Diffusers, and TensorRT. According to Black Forest Labs and Artificial Analysis, it performs better than models like Gemini-Flash Image in most benchmarks. Optimized versions are available for Nvidia's new Blackwell architecture. For commercial use, licenses start at $999 per month via Black Forest Labs' license portal.

Bar charts show FLUX.1 Context [dev] with peak values for character preservation, editing accuracy, style transfer, and text input compared to other image AI models.
FLUX.1 context [dev] scores higher than many competing models in all six categories. | Image: Black Forest Labs
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Jul 1, 2025
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Read full article about: OpenAI is charging at least $10 million per client for its enterprise AI consulting services

OpenAI is ramping up its enterprise AI consulting business, charging at least $10 million per client, according to The Information. The company's engineers work directly with organizations to adapt models like GPT-4o to their specific data and build custom applications, including chatbots. The push puts OpenAI in direct competition with established players like Palantir and Accenture. The team handling these projects is known internally as "Forward Deployed Engineers" (FDE).

Services go beyond model customization. OpenAI also offers data labeling, where experts review and correct AI-generated answers. Insiders say OpenAI is considering outsourcing this work to specialists like Snorkel AI and Surge AI. Its customer list includes the US Department of Defense and Southeast Asian tech company Grab.

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Jul 1, 2025
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Read full article about: Huawei is open sourcing AI models from its Pangu series

Huawei is open sourcing models from its Pangu series. The release includes the Pangu 7B language model with 7 billion parameters, the larger Pangu Pro MoE model with 72 billion parameters, and a model execution technology optimized for Huawei's Ascend chips. The weights for Pangu Pro MoE 72B, along with the base inference code and tools for large-scale MoE models, are already available on GitCode. Huawei says the Pangu 7B model will be released soon. The announcement comes after Baidu open sourced its Ernie model 4.5.

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