18 Jun 2026
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI. Last weekend, that something was a pretty intense mix of Anthropic, the Trump administration, and Anthropic’s new AI model, Fable 5.
18 Jun 2026
The world's most valuable companies: Who tops the list and how much are they worth?
The race to become the world's most valuable company has become one of the defining stories of the modern global economy. Over the past two decades, technological innovation, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, e-commerce, and semiconductor development have dramatically reshaped corporate rankings. Today, the world's most valuable companies are worth more than the…
18 Jun 2026
Google DeepMind unveils a plan to protect itself from its own rogue AI agents
Google has developed a new plan to police the increasingly capable AI agents it uses within its own AI research organization, and the company is publishing the so-called road map to help other AI labs counter the potential threat of rogue AI agents.
18 Jun 2026
Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children
Even with genomic sequencing, many people with rare diseases never receive a clear genetic diagnosis. Roughly half remain undiagnosed after extensive testing and specialist review. Their medical data may contain clues but finding them can require sifting through thousands to millions of possible genetic variants, fragmented clinical records, and rapidly changing scientific literature. As new…
17 Jun 2026
The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy
The Trump administration’s move to impose export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter.
17 Jun 2026
Amazon has lagged OpenAI and Anthropic, but AI chief sees path to catch up in 'coming year'
Amazon 's top artificial intelligence executive told CNBC on Wednesday that he hopes the company will be able to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier models in the "coming year" after falling behind the two leading labs.
17 Jun 2026
The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible
The Trump administration’s disagreement with Anthropic over its most advanced AI models appears to be fast coming to a head.
17 Jun 2026
China’s Alibaba unveils AI brains designed to power the next generation of robots
Chinese firm Alibaba has launched its first embodied AI model family, which links large language models with real-world robotic actions.
17 Jun 2026
XDOF Raises $70 Million: The Growing Market for Robot Data
Startup XDOF has raised $70 million to build infrastructure for collecting and labeling data for physical robots. As AI moves from screens into real-world machines, the scarcity of high-quality training data has become a major industry bottleneck. This trend highlights the increasing value of specialized data collection and annotation services, a crucial monitorable for investors tracking the…
