The Decoder
OpenAI's safety team systematically investigated why the chains of thought in frontier models like GPT-6 Astra are increasingly evading oversight. Four training steps drive the erosion, including architecture choices and reinforcement learning.
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brave.com
Developers and AI agents can now pay for the Brave Search API on demand with USDC via the open x402 protocol, settling each query in real time without an account or API key. The Brave Search API, our developer tool for building applications with data from the Web, is adding support for instant, pay-as-you-go, agentic payments enabled by the open x402 payment protocol.
The Decoder
Anthropic is adding Claude directly to video calls. Claude Meetings joins Google Meet sessions and creates documents, whiteboards, and meeting notes in real time.
MIT Technology Review
Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that it would be technically possible to implement the anti-smuggling measures called for in the Chip Security Act, Foster told MIT Technology Review in an interview on Thursday, even while an industry group claimed they were “potentially infeasible.
The Decoder
Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen replaces the Flash series, but benchmarks suggest it also makes the pricier Argon obsolete. On the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Hydrogen nearly matches Claude Sonnet 5.5 for less money but costs about 2.5 times more per task than GPT-6.1 Sol and still falls short on agentic coding.