DoorDash rolls out Zesty, an AI social app for discovering new restaurants
Users can view and share photos and comments about restaurants they’ve visited, discover content from others, and follow people just like on any social network.
Meta’s AI glasses can now help you hear conversations better
Conversation focus uses the AI glasses' open-ear speakers to amplify the voice of the person you're talking to, says Meta.
OpenAI continues on its ‘code red’ warpath with new image generation model
OpenAI rolls out GPT-Image-1.5 for ChatGPT, promising 4x faster generation, better instruction-following and precise edits. The launch escalates its rivalry with Google Gemini.
How Luminar’s doomed Volvo deal helped drag the company into bankruptcy
Luminar says trouble with Volvo started as early as 2022, and that the Swedish automaker made -- but then backed away from -- large orders of its lidar sensors.
Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm’s doctors
Leona Health built an AI co-pilot to manage the flood of patient messages Latin American doctors receive on WhatsApp.
OpenAI releases new models for its Realtime API
OpenAI has updated its Realtime API with three new model snapshots designed to improve transcription, speech synthesis, and function calling. The article OpenAI releases new models for its Realtime API appeared first on THE DECODER.
OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT’s Model Router System for Most Users
As OpenAI scrambles to improve ChatGPT, it's ditching a feature in its free tier that contributed to last summer's user revolt.
Nvidia strengthens open-source strategy with SchedMD acquisition
Nvidia is taking over software provider SchedMD to expand its presence in open-source technology. The article Nvidia strengthens open-source strategy with SchedMD acquisition appeared first on THE DECODER.
What AI search tools mean for the future of SEO specialists
AI search engines and generative AI tools are certainly transforming how people discover information online. Far from making SEO specialists obsolete, the shift highlights clearly why skilled human optimisers remain more important than ever. As generative AI search tools reshape the digital...
Creating psychological safety in the AI era
Rolling out enterprise-grade AI means climbing two steep cliffs at once. First, understanding and implementing the tech itself. And second, creating the cultural conditions where employees can maximize its value. While the technical hurdles are significant, the human element can be even more...
Gemini gets direct access to NotebookLM data
Google is linking its NotebookLM research tool directly to the Gemini chatbot. The article Gemini gets direct access to NotebookLM data appeared first on THE DECODER.
Zencoder drops Zenflow, a free AI orchestration tool that pits Claude against OpenAI’s models to catch coding errors
Zencoder, the Silicon Valley startup that builds AI-powered coding agents, released a free desktop application on Monday that it says will fundamentally change how software engineers interact with artificial intelligence — moving the industry beyond the freewheeling era of "vibe coding"...
Zoom says it aced AI’s hardest exam. Critics say it copied off its neighbors.
Zoom Video Communications, the company best known for keeping remote workers connected during the pandemic, announced last week that it had achieved the highest score ever recorded on one of artificial intelligence's most demanding tests — a claim that sent ripples of surprise, skepticism, and...
The Download: why 2025 has been the year of AI hype correction, and fighting GPS jamming
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The great AI hype correction of 2025 Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed...
Mining business learnings for AI deployment
Mining conglomerate BHP describes AI as the way it’s turning operational data into better day-to-day decisions. A blog post from the company highlights the analysis of data from sensors and monitoring systems to spot patterns and flag issues for plant machinery, giving choices to...
Why it’s time to reset our expectations for AI
Can I ask you a question: How do you feel about AI right now? Are you still excited? When you hear that OpenAI or Google just dropped a new model, do you still get that buzz? Or has the shine come off it, maybe just a teeny bit? Come on, you can be honest with…
Nearly half of US workers now use AI on the job, but most aren't using it daily
The share of US employees using AI at work climbed from 40 to 45 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, according to a recent Gallup poll. The article Nearly half of US workers now use AI on the job, but most aren't using it daily appeared first on THE DECODER.
BNP Paribas introduces AI tool for investment banking
BNP Paribas is testing how far AI can be pushed into the day-to-day mechanics of investment banking. According to Financial News, the bank has rolled out an internal tool called IB Portal, designed to help bankers assemble client pitches more quickly and with less repetition. Pitch preparation sits...
Nvidia's powerful open AI model play
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JPMorgan Chase AI strategy: US$18B bet paying off
JPMorgan Chase’s AI strategy is delivering measurable returns – but at a human cost. The bank isn’t hiding the fact. With 200,000 employees now using its proprietary LLM Suite platform daily and AI benefits growing 30-40% annually, America’s largest bank is executing what Chief...
Quantum navigation could solve the military’s GPS jamming problem
In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in Lithuania was reportedly the subject of a kind of attack—not by a rocket or anti-aircraft rounds, but by radio transmissions that jammed its GPS system. The flight landed safely, but it was one of...
AI literacy and continuous education are cornerstones
Across the US, workers are experiencing a seismic shift in workplace operations as AI literacy becomes a core part of business strategies. This is redefining roles and expectations, while workloads continue to increase and pressure intensifies. As the employment landscape transforms, it has become...
Last Week in AI #329 - GPT 5.2, GenAI.mil, Disney in Sora
GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle, Google is powering a new US military AI platform, Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI
Black box AI isn’t enough: Why enterprise consulting is moving to grounded models
Presented by SAPIn an era where anyone can spin up an LLM, the real differentiator isn’t the AI technology itself, but the institutional knowledge it’s grounded in. Internal and partner consultants leading operational transformation can’t risk hallucinated guidance when their recommendations impact...
OpenAI's GPT Image 1.5 challenges Google at enterprise-grade visuals
OpenAI made its image generation offerings more precise and consistent in its latest update to ChatGPT Images, as more enterprises and brands use AI image generation to help with design visualization. The updates will roll out to all ChatGPT users and the API as GPT Image 1.5. The company said...
OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.
How to Design a Gemini-Powered Self-Correcting Multi-Agent AI System with Semantic Routing, Symbolic Guardrails, and Reflexive Orchestration
In this tutorial, we explore how we design and run a full agentic AI orchestration pipeline powered by semantic routing, symbolic guardrails, and self-correction loops using Gemini. We walk through how we structure agents, dispatch tasks, enforce constraints, and refine outputs using a clean,...
Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise LLMs
We've heard (and written, here at VentureBeat) lots about the generative AI race between the U.S. and China, as those have been the countries with the groups most active in fielding new models (with a shoutout to Cohere in Canada and Mistral in France). But now a Korean startup is making...
The case against predicting tokens to build AGI
In a debate with DeepMind researcher Adam Brown, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun explained why Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a dead end on the path to human-like intelligence. The fundamental issue, LeCun argues, lies in the way these models make predictions. The article The case...
The fast and the future-focused are revolutionizing motorsport
When the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship launched its first race through Beijing’s Olympic Park in 2014, the idea of all-electric motorsport still bordered on experimental. Batteries couldn’t yet last a full race, and drivers had to switch cars mid-competition. Just over a decade later,...
Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3
The world’s top chipmaker wants open source AI to succeed—perhaps because closed models increasingly run on its rivals’ silicon.
This Startup Wants to Build Self-Driving Car Software—Super Fast
The autonomous vehicle industry is heating up thanks to advances in AI. But can those same innovations help startups like HyprLabs build safe tech?
🎧 Gemini turns headphones into translators
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For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
OpenAI has Released the ‘circuit-sparsity’: A Set of Open Tools for Connecting Weight Sparse Models and Dense Baselines through Activation Bridges
OpenAI team has released their openai/circuit-sparsity model on Hugging Face and the openai/circuit_sparsity toolkit on GitHub. The release packages the models and circuits from the paper ‘Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits‘. What is a weight sparse transformer? The...
5 AI Model Architectures Every AI Engineer Should Know
Everyone talks about LLMs—but today’s AI ecosystem is far bigger than just language models. Behind the scenes, a whole family of specialized architectures is quietly transforming how machines see, plan, act, segment, represent concepts, and even run efficiently on small devices. Each of these...
Nanbeige4-3B-Thinking: How a 23T Token Pipeline Pushes 3B Models Past 30B Class Reasoning
Can a 3B model deliver 30B class reasoning by fixing the training recipe instead of scaling parameters? Nanbeige LLM Lab at Boss Zhipin has released Nanbeige4-3B, a 3B parameter small language model family trained with an unusually heavy emphasis on data quality, curriculum scheduling,...
How to Design a Fully Local Agentic Storytelling Pipeline Using Griptape Workflows, Hugging Face Models, and Modular Creative Task Orchestration
In this tutorial, we build a fully local, API-free agentic storytelling system using Griptape and a lightweight Hugging Face model. We walk through creating an agent with tool-use abilities, generating a fictional world, designing characters, and orchestrating a multi-stage workflow that produces a...
Disney's billion-dollar AI bet on OpenAI
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Open-source AI crushes elite math exam
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Microsoft's cancer-mapping AI
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LWiAI Podcast #227 - Jeremie is back! DeepSeek 3.2, TPUs, Nested Learning
Deepseek 3.2 New AI Model is Faster, Cheaper and Smarter, NVIDIA’s Partners Are Beginning to Tilt Toward Google’s TPU Ecosystem, Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning Architecture
Last Week in AI #328 - DeepSeek 3.2, Mistral 3, Trainium3, Runway Gen-4.5
DeepSeek Releases New Reasoning Models, Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models, and more!
LWiAI Podcast #226 - Gemini 3, Claude Opus 4.5, Nano Banana Pro, LeJEPA
Google launches Gemini 3 & Nano Banana Pro, Anthropic releases Opus 4.5, and more!
Last Week in AI #327 - Gemini 3, Opus 4.5, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
It's a big week! Lots of exciting releases, plus nvidia earnings and a whole bunch of cool research.