Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro “to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness” — Key Points … Ask about this article... The model scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index …
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: OpenAI reopens sign-ups for its $200/month Pro tier while halving the API credits provided per dollar to encourage pay-per-use, and removes the five-hour cap — The 5-hour usage cap is gone for good: subscribers can spread their weekly allotment however they want.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are “either not real or not ads”; OpenAI's research chief says “anything that feels like an ad” is now turned off — Paid ChatGPT users recently reported seeing a prompt labeled “Shop for home and groceries.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks — New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.
Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder: Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on “needle-in-a-haystack” tests for 30-minute videos — A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024 — Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad …
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google expands Veo 3 availability to 71 additional countries, and Gemini Pro subscribers now get a trial pack of 10 Veo 3 generations on the Gemini web app — About 100 hours after its initial launch, Google is opening up its AI video model Veo 3 to users in 71 additional countries.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Meta AI and Papers with Code unveil Galactica, an open-source LLM for generating literature reviews, wiki articles, lecture notes on scientific topics, and more — The Galactica large language model (LLM) is being trained with millions of pieces of academic content.