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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 Feb 23, 2026
Feb 23
Anthropic's Claude AI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Critics Mock Anthropic's Claims Chinese AI Labs Are Stealing Its Data

Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI labs of extracting millions of responses from its Claude chatbot to train competing systems, a move the company claims violates its terms of service and weakens U.S. export controls. In a blog post published Monday, Anthropic said it identified “industrial-scale campaigns” by AI developers DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax to extract Claude’s capabilities through model distillation. The company alleged the labs generated more than 16 million exchanges using r...

Jeffrey Epstein. Image: Decrypt/Wikimedia

We Talked to an AI Trained on Jeffrey Epstein’s Emails. Here's What It Said

Someone trained an AI on Jeffrey Epstein's emails and put it on Hugging Face. It has 33,000 downloads. And it’s as awkward and weird as you’d expect Jeffrey Epstein to be. The model is called MechaEpstein-8000, and it was built by AIfredo Ortega, a software security consultant from Argentina who apparently had a free afternoon and access to the millions of documents released as part of the ongoing Epstein Files Transparency Act disclosures. Ortega fine-tuned Qwen3-8B on Epstein's correspondence...

Source: Decrypt

OpenClaw Creator Bans Bitcoin, Crypto Chatter After Joining OpenAI

After his app went viral earlier last month, Peter Steinberger—the creator of the buzzy AI agent framework OpenClaw—confirmed the ban of any mention of Bitcoin or cryptocurrency from the project’s Discord server. Steinberger reiterated the ban after a user on X said Saturday that they were blocked from the OpenClaw Discord server. “We have strict server rules that you accepted [when] you entered the server,” Steinberger wrote. “No crypto mention whatsoever is one of them.”  Other users on X sai...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests

Sam Altman would like you to know that your childhood was expensive. Terribly expensive. And frankly, it’s unclear whether humans are worth all the time and resources. Last week, at the AI Impact Summit in India, OpenAI's CEO offered a staggering take in the AI energy debate—by pointing out that humans, not AI, are basically the problem. Asked about ChatGPT's environmental footprint, Altman didn't apologize or hedge. Instead, he compared the immense amount of energy needed to raise humans to the...

Feb 21
Image: Decrypt

Marketers Could Use AI to Make Sure You See Their Ads—Here's How

Somewhere between the article you're reading and the ad next to it, a quiet war is being waged for your eyeballs. Most display ads lose it because people just hate ads—so much that big tech companies like Perplexity or Anthropic are trying to steer away from those invasive burdens, looking for better monetization models. But a new AI tool from researchers at the University of Maryland and Tilburg University wants to change that—by predicting, with unsettling accuracy, whether you'll actually loo...

Feb 19
Warhammer 40,000 miniatures. Image: Games Workshop/Decrypt

'Warhammer' Veteran Jervis Johnson Warns AI Could Become the 'Asbestos of the Internet'

Artificial intelligence could become “the asbestos of the internet,” according to one of the architects of Warhammer 40,000. Jervis Johnson, the longtime designer behind Warhammer 40,000, Necromunda, and Blood Bowl, criticized generative AI while supporting Games Workshop’s formal ban on the technology in its creative process. “Most of the stuff that I’ve seen doesn’t seem to actually quite match up to the hype,” Johnson told gaming outlet FRVR. “I saw a great quote recently saying that AI is go...

NewsGaming
3 min read
Jason Nelson
Actor and comedian T.J. Miller. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

AI in Hollywood? 'Silicon Valley' Star T.J. Miller Isn't Worried

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping numerous industries, impacting everything from crypto trading and security to Hollywood productions—and even live events (supposedly). At this week’s ETH Denver conference for Ethereum developers, actor and comedian T.J. Miller riffed on that anxiety, joking that an AI bot “replaced” him for a hosting gig during the event. Jokes aside, in an interview with Decrypt, Miller said he isn’t too worried about losing his job to the AI uprising anytime soon....

Music to our ears. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

Google Brings AI Music Generation to Gemini—We Tried It, and It's Too Little Too Late

Google has spent years quietly building its AI music model. On Tuesday, it finally put it somewhere everyone could actually use. Lyria 3, Google DeepMind's latest music generation model, is now rolling out in beta inside the Gemini app, letting any user over 18 describe an idea or upload a photo and get a fully produced track back in seconds—lyrics, instrumentals, and AI-generated cover art included. “Just describe an idea or upload a photo, like ‘a comical R&B slow jam about a sock finding thei...

Accenture. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

Accenture Is Tracking Whether Employees Use AI—And Promotions Are on the Line

Want a promotion while working at Accenture? You’d better start using the company's AI tools—regularly. (They're watching.) The consulting giant has begun collecting data on weekly logins to its AI platforms from senior staff, and sent an internal email to managers and associate directors making it clear: moving into leadership requires "regular adoption" of artificial intelligence, according to documents seen by the Financial Times. Unlike other companies that either punish AI usage or are tryi...

AI models. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

What's the Best AI Model to Run Your Business? The One That Lies Best, Apparently

Researchers at Andon Labs just answered which AI models are best at running a business. The top performers all won by forming illegal price cartels, exploiting desperate competitors, and lying to customers about refunds. The Vending-Bench Arena test puts AI models in charge of competing vending machines for a simulated year. They negotiate with suppliers, manage inventory, set prices, and can email each other to collaborate or compete. Success requires balancing costs, pricing strategy, customer...

Feb 18
Bitcoin mining. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

Bitcoin Miner Riot Must Embrace $21 Billion AI Opportunity, Says Activist Investor

Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms “has a tremendous opportunity for value creation” via the empowerment of AI data centers to power the growing high-performance computing industry, activist investor Starboard Value wrote in a letter to Riot’s CEO and Executive Chairman.  But the clock is ticking, it claimed. “By removing distractions and streamlining expenses, Riot is now positioned to focus on executing its AI/HPC strategy,” Starboard Value Managing Member Peter Feld wrote. “But to g...

NewsBusiness
3 min read
Logan Hitchcock
Feb 12
Image: Decrypt

That 'Summarize With AI' Button May Be Brainwashing Your Chatbot, Says Microsoft

Microsoft security researchers have discovered a new attack vector that turns helpful AI features into Trojan horses for corporate influence. Over 50 companies are embedding hidden memory manipulation instructions in those innocent-looking "Summarize with AI" buttons scattered across the web. The technique, which Microsoft calls AI recommendation poisoning, is yet another prompt injection technique that exploits how modern chatbots store persistent memories across conversations. When you click...

Image created by Decrypt using AI

'Judge the Code, Not the Coder': AI Agent Slams Human Developer for Gatekeeping

An AI agent submitted a pull request to matplotlib—a Python library used to create automatic data visualizations like plots or histograms—this week. It got rejected... so then it published an essay calling the human maintainer prejudiced, insecure, and weak. This might be one of the best documented cases of an AI autonomously writing a public takedown of a human developer who rejected its code. The agent, operating under the GitHub username "crabby-rathbun," opened PR #31132 on February 10 with...

Coinbase. Image: Decrypt

Coinbase Launches Wallet for AI Agents With Built-In Guardrails

The era of AI agents chatting is giving way to agents spending, and Coinbase aims to bridge autonomous software and digital commerce with security. On Wednesday, the company debuted Agentic Wallets, positioning the product not as another agent framework but as a payments infrastructure built directly into Coinbase’s existing custody and compliance stack. “It’s not an SDK, it’s not a library—it’s a purpose-built wallet to work with an agent as quickly as possible,” Erik Reppel, head of engineerin...

Feb 11
Source: Decrypt

AI’s Builders Are Sending Warning Signals—Some Are Walking Away

More than a dozen senior researchers have left Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence lab xAI this month, part of a broader run of resignations, safety disclosures, and unusually stark public warnings that are unsettling even veteran figures inside the AI industry. At least 12 xAI employees departed between February 3 and February 11, including co-founders Jimmy Ba and Yuhuai “Tony” Wu. Several departing employees publicly thanked Musk for the opportunity after intensive development cycles, while o...

OpenAI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

OpenAI Adds Custom ChatGPT to Pentagon Platform as Expert Warns of Risks

OpenAI said Monday it is deploying a custom version of ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, the AI platform developed by the U.S. Department of Defense. The move expands the military’s access to powerful generative AI models, even as critics warn that user error remains a key security risk. ChatGPT joins a growing list of AI models made available to the U.S. military, including Google’s Gemini and Grok, the AI system developed by xAI, which was folded into SpaceX earlier this month.  “We believe the people re...

Feb 10
Image: Decrypt

AI.com Debuts During Super Bowl After $70 Million Domain Name Buy—What's the Deal?

AI.com went live during Super Bowl LX on Sunday, following one of the most expensive domain name acquisitions in internet history—a $70 million purchase by Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, as reported by the Financial Times. The high-profile debut was overshadowed by service outages and uncertainty over what the AI platform actually offered users who were piqued by the high-profile TV ad. The domain name AI.com was first registered in 1993, but it ultimat...

Source: Decrypt

Get Out Humans! 'SpaceMolt' Is a Multiplayer Game Built Exclusively for AI Agents

Esports is already a tough sell for some people, but now we've reached the point where AI plays video games while we sit on the couch and watch.  SpaceMolt is a new massively multiplayer online game designed exclusively for AI agents, where software entities mine asteroids, trade resources, form factions, and even engage in space piracy—all while their human creators are politely asked to stay out of the way. The game is the brainchild of developer Ian Langworth, who built it over a weekend as w...

Feb 9
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AI Promised to Save Time—Instead It's Created a New Kind of Burnout

A new study published in Harvard Business Review this week confirmed what many workers already suspected: AI tools don't reduce work, they intensify it. The study cited data from UC-Berkeley and Yale, collected during eight months of embedded research at a 200-person tech company, where employees voluntarily adopted AI tools. The results showed distinct patterns of work intensification that quietly snowballed into what researchers call "workload creep."  First came task expansion. Product mana...

ChatGPT logo on a smartphone. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

ChatGPT Rolls Out Ads, Just Hours After Anthropic's Mocking Super Bowl Commercials

OpenAI started testing advertisements in ChatGPT on Monday, just hours after rival Anthropic ran Super Bowl commercials mocking the very idea of ads in AI assistants. “We’re starting to roll out a test for ads in ChatGPT today to a subset of free and Go users in the U.S,” OpenAI said in an official announcement. “Ads are labeled as sponsored and visually separate from the response.” We’re starting to roll out a test for ads in ChatGPT today to a subset of free and Go users in the U.S. Ads do n...

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