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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 Dec 25, 2025
Dec 25
Emerge's 2025 Story of the Year: AI Geopolitics. Image: Decrypt

Emerge's 2025 Story of the Year: How the AI Race Fractured the Global Tech Order

The great unraveling began with a single number: $256,000. DeepSeek, a year-old Chinese startup, claimed it spent that relatively small sum training an AI model that matched the capabilities of OpenAI—which spent over a hundred million dollars to get to the same place. When the app hit Apple's store in January, Nvidia lost $600 billion in a single trading day, which was the largest one-day wipeout in market history. The technical feat aside, DeepSeek’s efficiency breakthrough quickly ignited a g...

Deep DivesLong Reads
11 min read
Jose Antonio Lanz
Dec 24
Source: Decrypt

The Best AI Large Language Models of 2025

The defining strategy of 2025 was not choosing a single “best large language model.” It was assembling a stack. Claude for premium coding and editing. DeepSeek or Qwen for cheap volume. Muse for fiction. Dolphin when constraints mattered more than polish. Models stopped being personalities this year. They became tools. The advantage went to users who treated them that way. The technology matured into something genuinely useful in 2025—models became smarter, cheaper, and specialized for specific...

Deep DivesLong Reads
7 min read
Jose Antonio Lanz
Dec 23
Emerge's 2025 "Person" of the Year: Ani, the Grok AI Chatbot. Image: Ani/Decrypt

Emerge's 2025 'Person' of the Year: Ani the Grok Chatbot

When Ani arrived in July, she didn’t look like the sterile chat interfaces that had previously dominated the industry. Modeled after Death Note’s Misa Amane—with animated expressions, anime aesthetics, and the libido of a dating-sim protagonist—Ani was built to be watched, wanted, and pursued. Elon Musk signaled the shift himself when he posted a video of the character on X with the caption, “Ani will make ur buffer overflow.” The post went viral. Ani represented a new, more mainstream species o...

Deep DivesLong Reads
8 min read
Jason Nelson
Dec 20
ChatGPT logo on a smartphone. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

OpenAI, Microsoft Sued Over ChatGPT's Alleged Role in Connecticut Murder-Suicide

In the latest lawsuit targeting AI developer OpenAI, the estate of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman sued the ChatGPT developer and Microsoft, alleging that the chatbot validated delusional beliefs that preceded a murder-suicide—marking the first case to link an AI system to a homicide. The lawsuit, filed last week in California Superior Court in San Francisco, accused OpenAI of "designing and distributing a defective product" in the form of GPT-4o, which reinforced the paranoid beliefs of Stein-...

Dec 18
Source: Decrypt

Fetch.ai Says Its AI Agents Will Overcome Online Retail Barriers Faced by Today’s Tools

Autonomous AI agents have become increasingly proficient at searching and recommending shopping options, but most stop short of completing transactions. Fetch.ai said Thursday that it will roll out a payment system in 2026 designed to let AI agents execute purchases and deposits on a user’s behalf. The new feature set to launch in January addresses one of the largest barriers to wider adoption of agentic AI. While consumer-facing systems can suggest flights, hotels, or services, virtually all of...

Dec 17
Bitcoin mining. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8's Stock Soars After Inking $7 Billion Google-Backed AI Deal

Shares in publicly traded Bitcoin miner Hut8 (HUT) are soaring after the firm booked a new $7 billion, 15-year deal with Fluidstack—backstopped by Google—to provide power for high-performance computing via a 245MW data center at its River Bend campus in Louisiana.  HUT was recently changing hands at $42.55 shortly after the opening bell on Wednesday, a gain of more than 15%. HUT is up nearly 13% in the last month, and better than 150% in the last six months. “This agreement is the result of disc...

NewsMarkets
2 min read
Logan Hitchcock
SAG-AFTRA members join WGA members on the picket lines outside of Hollywood studios. Image: Jason Nelson/Decrypt.

Actors, Creators Launch Coalition to Push AI Rules Amid Ongoing Legal Battles

A coalition of writers, actors, and technologists launched a new industry group on Tuesday to push for enforceable rules governing how artificial intelligence is trained and used across the entertainment industry. The move follows disputes over AI that have escalated into strikes, lawsuits, and policy battles across Hollywood and the digital media economy. The Creators Coalition on AI positions itself as a cross-industry effort, distinct from labor unions or collective bargaining, focusing on es...

Dec 15
Image: Decrypt

AI Helped Researchers Block a Virus Before Infection Began

Most antiviral drugs target viruses after they have already slipped inside human cells. Researchers at Washington State University said they found a way to intervene earlier, identifying a single molecular interaction that viruses rely on to enter cells in the first place. The research, published in November in the journal Nanoscale, focused on viral entry, one of the least understood and most difficult stages of infection to disrupt, using artificial intelligence and molecular simulations to id...

Image created by Decrypt using AI.

Welcome to the AI Village, a Reality Show for AIs

Imagine Big Brother, except the contestants never sleep or eat and can rewrite their own rules. That’s the idea behind AI Village, a live-streamed experiment that places multiple AI agents together in a shared digital environment, allowing researchers—and curious spectators—to watch what happens when frontier models are given autonomy, computers, and constant company. The experiment, which has been running for the better part of a year, was organized by The AI Digest, in which multiple AI models...

Image: Decrypt

Merriam-Webster Declares 'Slop' the Word of the Year as AI Eats the Web

In what many observers might characterize as both ironic and, in some respects, entirely predictable, Merriam-Webster has named “slop” its 2025 Word of the Year—a term increasingly used to describe large volumes of low-quality digital content generated at scale, by artificial intelligence. It’s not that this content is incorrect; it’s that it is correct in ways that feel strangely beside the point and obviously AI-written. Slop is not a new word, nor a particularly complex one. Historically, it...

Dec 14
Source: Decrypt

Transhumanism Branded a 'Death Cult' as Thinkers Clash Over Humanity's Future

Transhumanism, a movement that seeks to defeat aging and death through technology, was sharply criticized during a recent debate between philosophers, scientists, and transhumanist advocates, who rejected the accusation as misguided and reactionary. The exchange took place Dec. 4 at the UK-based Institute of Art and Ideas’ “World’s Most Dangerous Idea” event, where neuroscientist and philosopher Àlex Gómez-Marín argued that the movement functions as a pseudo-religion—one that aims to eliminate t...

NewsHealth
5 min read
Jason Nelson
Dec 12
Social media. Image: Shutterstock

New AI Tool Promises to Decode—And Replicate—Social Video Virality

A new AI startup is pitching a data-driven solution to one of digital media’s most unpredictable challenges: making content go viral. Buzzy, an AI platform that launched in early December, says it can analyze and remix high-performing videos across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X by identifying the structural traits that drive clicks and shares. The tool then applies those patterns to user-submitted material, generating multiple short-form video variants aimed at boosting engagement across pla...

OpenAI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Sorry Gooners: OpenAI's Erotic ChatGPT Delayed Into 2026

Looking forward to OpenAI’s erotic evolution? You’ll have to wait a bit longer. OpenAI is pushing back the company's adult content feature to at least early 2026, breaking a high-profile December deadline that CEO Sam Altman set just two months ago. As first reported by The Verge, Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of applications, told reporters Thursday during the GPT-5.2 briefing that the company's adult mode will now debut sometime in the first quarter of next year. The delay stems from ongoing work...

Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

Trump’s New AI Order Sets Up Federal Fight With US States Over Industry Regulation

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the Justice Department to challenge state artificial intelligence laws, setting up a direct confrontation with states that had advanced their own rules in the absence of federal legislation. The order creates an AI Litigation Task Force under the Attorney General and instructed the Justice Department to contest state laws on federal preemption grounds and potential conflicts with interstate commerce protections. The order ide...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 Amid Expanded Major Contracts

Just weeks after its last major release, OpenAI is aggressively pivoting its flagship ChatGPT from a consumer novelty to an indispensable corporate powerhouse. On Thursday, the company released GPT-5.2, a new large language model it claims is faster, more reliable, and designed to handle complex professional workflows. The update signal OpenAI is moving beyond homework help and general queries, aiming instead to embed its technology as an essential, daily tool in the business world, as evidenced...

Dec 11
Disney. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

Disney Targets Google Over AI Copyright Violations—Alongside $1 Billion OpenAI Deal

The fight over AI copyright infringement took an unexpected turn on Thursday as Disney hit Google with a cease and desist order, accusing the tech giant of “infringing Disney’s copyrights on a massive scale.” The move landed the same week that Disney reached a deal with OpenAI—announced Thursday morning—that will let the company license hundreds of its characters for use in Sora, the ChatGPT maker’s video generation model. According to a report in Variety, attorneys for Disney sent the cease-and...

Artificial intelligence. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Hong Kong Cardinal Calls AI a 'Gift From God' as Asian Bishops Mull Ethical Challenges

Asian Catholic bishops met in Hong Kong this week to begin drafting the region’s first set of Church guidelines on artificial intelligence, a move aimed at setting guardrails as the technology becomes more embedded in everyday life. According to a report by Vatican News, the meeting opened with Hong Kong’s Cardinal Stephen Chow describing AI as a “gift from God,” a notable shift in tone as Church leaders debated how to govern the use of generative AI tools. “I think AI is not from the devil. AI...

Dec 10
Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

Tether Pivots to Wellness Apps and Robotics in Latest Step Away from Crypto

Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, is making an unlikely pivot into consumer health. The company launched a wellness app, QVAC Health Wednesday, marking its latest attempt to diversify beyond the crypto industry. Its rollout comes just days after Tether backed a humanoid robotics firm, signaling a strategy that increasingly relies on reinvesting its interest-income windfall into disparate technology sectors.  The move is a sharp departure for a company whose primary business...

NewsHealth
3 min read
Jason Nelson
Tesla founder and X owner Elon Musk. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Elon Musk Says DOGE Flagged Billions in Federal 'Zombie Payments'

Elon Musk claimed that audits conducted under the Department of Government Efficiency identified what he described as “zombie payments” worth between $100 billion to $200 billion a year, marking the clearest accounting he has offered of the short-lived initiative he briefly led early in the Donald Trump administration. Musk’s comments came in a podcast interview released Tuesday that quickly went viral and touched on everything from immigration and artificial intelligence to Mars colonization an...

Source: Decrypt

AI Political Chatbots Can Sway Voters, New Research Finds

New research from Cornell University and the UK AI Security Institute has found that widely used AI systems could shift voter preferences in controlled election settings by up to 15%. Published in Science and Nature, the findings emerge as governments and researchers examined how AI might influence upcoming election cycles, while developers seek to purge bias from their consumer-facing models. “There is great public concern about the potential use of generative artificial intelligence for politi...

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