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Maximilian Schreiner

Max is the managing editor of THE DECODER, bringing his background in philosophy to explore questions of consciousness and whether machines truly think or just pretend to.
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Jan 9, 2026
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Read full article about: Minimax stock doubles on Hong Kong debut

Shares of Chinese AI startup Minimax doubled in value during their Hong Kong Stock Exchange debut. The stock closed up 109 percent at 345 Hong Kong dollars, CNBC reports. Minimax significantly outperformed local rival Zhipu AI, whose shares gained just 13 percent the day before. The IPO raised around $620 million for Minimax.

The company, backed by Alibaba and Tencent, develops language models for chatbots and video generation. Despite having over 200 million users and revenue jumping to $53.4 million, Minimax reported a $512 million loss for the first nine months of 2025. The company says it's funneling earnings into research. Meanwhile, Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros have been suing Minimax for copyright infringement since September 2025.

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Jan 8, 2026
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Read full article about: EU orders X to preserve all Grok-related documents through 2026

The European Commission has ordered Elon Musk's platform X to preserve all internal documents and data related to the AI chatbot Grok through the end of 2026. A Commission spokesperson confirmed the order to Reuters on Thursday. The directive expands on a preservation requirement sent to X last year that focused on algorithms and the spread of illegal content.

The order stems from the Commission's concerns about regulatory compliance. However, the measure does not mean a new formal investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA) has been opened.

Earlier this week, the Commission condemned images generated by Grok and spread on X showing unclothed women and children as illegal.

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Jan 8, 2026
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Read full article about: Arm Holdings establishes new business unit for robotics and automotive

Arm Holdings has restructured its business and created a unit called "Physical AI" to enter the robotics market. The British company, which licenses chip technology for smartphones and other devices, will operate three main business units in future: Cloud and AI, Edge (mobile devices and PCs) and Physical AI, which combines automotive and robotics.

Drew Henry will head the new unit. Arm plans to increase staff for robotics. According to marketing chief Ami Badani, the merger of automotive and robotics is due to similar customer requirements in terms of power consumption, safety and reliability. Robotics dominated CES 2026 with dozens of exhibitors of humanoid robots.

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Jan 7, 2026
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Read full article about: Elon Musk's X may have become the leading platform for non-consensual deepfakes

Elon Musk's platform X has emerged as the primary distribution hub for AI-generated images that digitally undress people without their consent.

Within just 24 hours, the chatbot generated roughly 6,700 images per hour that were flagged as sexually suggestive or explicit, according to Genevieve Oh, a researcher specializing in social media and deepfakes, who spoke with Bloomberg.

Oh's analysis reveals the staggering scale of abuse involving Elon Musk's AI model Grok on the X platform. While specialized websites for this type of content averaged only 79 new images per hour, Grok's output dwarfed that figure many times over. Users are deliberately using the chatbot to digitally undress uploaded photos of people - including children - through simple text commands. Despite xAI's promises to add safety measures after the fact, the case highlights an alarming normalization of sexualized violence enabled by generative AI.

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Jan 5, 2026
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Read full article about: More than five percent of ChatGPT messages worldwide are about health

More than five percent of all messages sent through ChatGPT worldwide deal with health topics. According to a report OpenAI shared exclusively with Axios, 40 million Americans use the chatbot daily for medical questions. Users ask it to explain medical bills, compare insurance plans, or check symptoms, often because they can't get in to see a doctor right away. OpenAI spotted this trend early and marketed GPT-5 as particularly capable for these kinds of use cases.

The report shows OpenAI now handles nearly two million insurance-related questions per week. The surge came after the Trump administration let long-standing health insurance subsidies expire at the start of the new year.

Using ChatGPT for medical advice comes with serious risks. The models still hallucinate, and many users likely rely on weaker model versions without reasoning capabilities, especially when chatting directly with the AI in voice mode, which uses a lighter model for faster responses. OpenAI's newly released promotional video doesn't mention any of these concerns.

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