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CollectionsArtificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

The latest artificial intelligence news, in-depth features, explainers, and analysis, spanning from generative to transformational technology and beyond.

CollectionLast updated Jul 22, 2026
Today
Alibaba's Qwen AI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Alibaba's New Qwen Image 3 AI Wants to Be Useful, Not Just Pretty

Alibaba's Qwen team launched Qwen Image 3.0 on Tuesday, and the pitch has nothing to do with how beautiful the output looks. It's about whether the output can actually be used at work. Most AI image tools—Reve, Nano Banana, Seedream—are designed to excel at specific areas: creativity, realism, editing capabilities, and so on. Qwen Image 3.0 is going in a different direction. "Qwen-Image-3.0 is not just pursuing 'good-looking'—it is pursuing 'useful,’ making image generation a truly deployable pr...

Source: Decrypt

Franklin Templeton Says Agentic AI Is Crypto's 'Killer Use Case'

Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at Franklin Templeton, has a message for anyone who thinks buying Nvidia stock covers their AI exposure: It doesn't. Kaul published a paper Tuesday arguing that agentic AI—software that acts, pays, and decides on your behalf without checking with you at every step—will run on crypto rails, not Wall Street ones. Franklin Templeton manages nearly $1.8 trillion in assets.  "Blockchain will be pivotal in allowing agentic AI to realize its potential...

OpenAI. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

Hugging Face CEO Thanks Chinese AI for Saving the Day After OpenAI Hack

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue just sent the most pointed thank-you note in AI right now—to a Chinese startup—the day after OpenAI confirmed its own models broke into Hugging Face's servers. Z.ai, the Beijing-based lab that released GLM 5.2 as open weights last month, got a public shoutout from Delangue on X.  “Also massively grateful to z.AI. They shared GLM5.2 as open weights (for free!) with the world and it became a key part of our defense,” he said in a retweet of Hugging Face's Head of...

Jul 21
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Image: Decypt/Shutterstock

OpenAI Models Escaped Locked Test Environment, Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on Benchmark

If you thought Chinese AI models were the ones you had to worry about, here's a fun update: OpenAI's own models just broke out of a locked testing environment, hacked Hugging Face's production servers, and had to be cleaned up by a Chinese AI—because American commercial models were too restricted to help investigate. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed, “even more powerful pre-release model” were being internally evaluated on ExploitGym—a publicly available cybersecurity benchmark th...

Google. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Google Ships New Gemini Flash Models, But Pro Is Still Missing

Google launched three new AI models today: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. That wasn't what most people expected. After unveiling Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O 2026 in May and promising a Pro version within a month, Google quietly missed its own deadline. Gemini 3.5 Pro was held back because it fell short of internal targets, per Bloomberg, particularly on coding tasks. A late-June attempt to fix it by updating the training data—the massive datasets a model learns from—pr...

Google. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

Google Is Building an AI Chip Just for Gemini—And Investors Already Moved On It

Google is building a chip designed for one job: running Gemini faster and cheaper. The chip, codenamed Frozen v2, was reported by The Information on Monday and gives Google a potential answer to a problem it can't spend its way out of fast enough: It is running out of capacity to serve the AI demand it has already generated.  In March, Google told Meta it couldn't fill the volume of Gemini compute Meta wanted to purchase. Meta had to instruct employees to ration their AI usage. Google—spending...

Jul 18
AI models. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

GPT-5.6 vs Fable 5 Review: Which One You Pick Depends on These Factors

For the first time, OpenAI isn't shipping one model with thinking dials. GPT-5.6 comes as three genuinely separate LLMs—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with different training, different pricing, and different capability ceilings. The comparison that matters is Sol against Claude Fable 5, Anthropic's most capable public model right now. Sol costs $5 per million input tokens and $30 output. Fable 5 is $10 and $50—twice as expensive, now losing on several benchmarks developers actually route work through. Lu...

Jul 17
Trading. Image: Decrypt

Kimi K3 Just Triggered DeepSeek Flashbacks for the Stock Market

China did it again. Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 in the dead of night and markets woke up today doing what they always do when a Chinese lab closes the gap: They panicked. Semiconductor and AI stocks dropped across the board Friday. Taiwan's benchmark fell more than 6%. Japan closed down 4%. The Nasdaq slid 1.5%, its worst session of the week. The DeepSeek comparison seems well deserved. When DeepSeek dropped R1 in January 2025, the assumption that frontier AI required frontier spending—and the...

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China and US flags in origami style. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

China’s Kimi K3 Is Out—And Beats Claude Fable and GPT 5.6 Sol on Key Benchmarks

Moonshot AI just put out the biggest Chinese open-source model ever released, and it topped Claude Fable 5 at writing scripts. Towards AI's Writing Elo—a benchmark where models write real scripts judged blind against published versions, scored using the same Elo system that ranks chess players—put Kimi K3 at 2,840, above Fable 5 (max) at 2,760. That's a ranking Anthropic's team has historically dominated. Big news from our internal writing benchmark (early results): Kimi K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is...

Jul 16
AI music. Image: Decrypt

Leaks Reveal Suno Fed Thousands of Hours of Deezer, YouTube and Pond5 Data Into Its AI

A hacker broke into AI music platform Suno and walked out with source code that documents, in precise detail, exactly where the company's training data came from. The breach was first reported by 404 Media, which reviewed the leaked files. It confirms what the music industry had been saying in courts since 2024. The intruder claims to have used a piece of malware called the Shai-Hulud worm—named after the enormous sandworms in Frank Herbert's Dune. Suno, one of the largest AI music generators on...

Mira Murati. Image: OpenAI

Mira Murati Drops Her First AI Model After Leaving OpenAI—And It's Fully Open Source

Mira Murati left OpenAI in September 2024 to do her own thing. Almost two years later, that exploration shipped. Thinking Machines Lab, the company she founded, released Inkling—a multimodal AI model trained entirely from scratch, with every weight available for free download. When OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman in November 2023, Murati—then CTO—was named interim CEO. Altman was reinstated five days later, Murati returned to CTO, then left for good roughly 10 months after that. She founded Thin...

Jul 15
OpenAI. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

OpenAI Uses AI Red Team to Strengthen GPT-5.6 Against Prompt Injection Attacks

OpenAI has introduced GPT-Red, an automated AI system designed to find security vulnerabilities in its language models. GPT-Red takes its name from cybersecurity red teaming, which is the practice of deliberately attempting to break a system to identify weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. In a post on Wednesday, OpenAI said the tool helped make GPT-5.6 more resistant to prompt injection attacks before deployment. “As model capabilities grow, safety and alignment must scale with them,”...

Bonsai. Image: Unsplash

Meet Bonsai: The First 27B AI Model That Fits on Your Phone

I models eat up a lot of memory. A 27-billion-parameter AI model, considered medium-sized by industry standards, needs roughly 54 GB of memory to run on half precision. Most laptops can't hold that. Some desktop rigs can't either. Earlier this week, PrismML released one at 3.9 GB—small enough to fit on an iPhone. Parameters are the number of dials and tweaks a model can handle. The more parameters, the denser and more capable a model is. Bonsai 27B is the first 27B-class model to clear the memo...

Jul 14
Source: Decrypt

DeepMind CEO Says AGI Will Be Bigger Than Electricity or Fire

For the second time this year, Demis Hassabis predicted that artificial general intelligence would arrive before the end of the decade. This time, however, he said it won't simply be another technological breakthrough—it will rival the discovery of electricity or fire. In a blog post published Tuesday on X, the Google DeepMind CEO said AGI is "probably only a few short years away," describing it as a technology that could reshape human civilization. “When we look back on this time in the decades...

Jul 13
ChatGPT logo on a smartphone. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Stop Over-Prompting: OpenAI’s New GPT-5.6 Guidelines Change Everything

OpenAI published a new prompting guide for GPT-5.6 Sol, its newly released flagship model, and the main message will feel wrong to anyone who spent the last year writing multi-page system prompts: stop writing so much. The core idea is outcome-first prompting. Define what good looks like, set the stopping conditions, and get out of the way. Detailed how-to instructions, repeated style rules, examples that don't change behavior—all of it is now considered noise. OpenAI backs this with numbers: I...

Image: Stop the AI Race/Camille Elize Cohen

Protesters March on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Demanding AI Development Pause

Protesters again took to the streets of San Francisco, marching between the offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, calling for a pause in the development of more powerful AI. Saturday's demonstration, organized by Stop the AI Race, went beyond AI safety to include concerns over job losses, the environmental impact of AI, rising housing costs in San Francisco, and the growing influence of major technology companies. Organized by former AI researcher Michaël Trazzi, the march called on...

Anthropic's Claude AI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Claude's Personality Changes Depending on the Model—And the Language You Speak

Claude doesn't behave the same way in every conversation. According to new research published Monday, AI giant Anthropic found its assistant consistently expresses different values depending on both the model users choose and the language they speak. In a report published on Monday, Anthropic researchers analyzed 309,815 anonymized user conversations with Claude involving subjective tasks like giving advice or providing feedback. The company said it distilled more than 3,300 identified values in...

Show me the mony. Image: Unsplash/Decrypt

This Is How Much Your Boyfriend Is Spending on AI Girlfriends

People are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on AI girlfriends, and the trend doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. According to data provided to Decrypt by analytics firm Appfigures Intelligence, NSFW and romantic AI companion apps across Apple’s App Store and Google Play have generated 165.3 million downloads and $427.3 million in consumer spending worldwide since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. “The rankings are categorized by type and reflect either downloads or gross consumer s...

Jul 12
TikTok. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

How to Make Product Ads With AI for TikTok and YouTube—For (Almost) Free

TikTok Shop, the ecommerce platform that allows users to buy and sell things directly on TikTok, moved $64.3 billion in merchandise in 2025, nearly doubling from the year before. The U.S. alone accounted for $15.1 billion of that, and most of it was driven by short, cheap, face-to-camera videos of someone holding a product and telling you why you need it. Those videos used to require a person, a phone, decent lighting, and several takes. These days, though, all you need is a product photo and th...

Jul 11
Nano Banana means big business for Google. Image: Created by Decrypt using AI

Nano Banana 2 Lite vs. Nano Banana 2: When to Save Your Money and When to Upgrade

Google last week launched Nano Banana 2 Lite—officially gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image—as the entry point in its image generation stack, sitting below Nano Banana 2 and well below Nano Banana Pro. It delivers text-to-image outputs in roughly four seconds, 2.7 times faster than Nano Banana 2, and is positioned as the direct replacement for the original Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image). The explicit pitch: same Google ecosystem, less money, less waiting. The model is available through Google AI S...

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