AI Is Coming For The Design Stack

AI is stepping directly into the design game with new models and product releases that target design processes and tools directly.

Don’t stop hiring humans — stop hiring the wrong humans, Artisan’s founder says

Artisan may be known for their bold “Stop Hiring Humans” campaign but the reality is every founder needs to assemble the right team if they want to scale.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘superapp’

OpenAI says its latest model offers increased capabilities across a broad variety of categories.

Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating
Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating

Anthropic’s tightly controlled rollout of Claude Mythos has taken an awkward turn. After spending weeks insisting the AI model is so capable at cybersecurity that it is too dangerous to release publicly, it appears the model fell into the wrong hands anyway. According to Bloomberg, a “small group of unauthorized users” has had access to […]

OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficient and better at coding
OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficient and better at coding

OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer.” OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 “excels” at tasks like writing and debugging code, […]

Does The Rise Of AI Mean Hudcon Is Hollywood’s Last Cinderella Story?

AI is going to have a massive impact on film and TV – just not in the way most people think.

Microsoft Copilot can now do actual work inside your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files

Copilot’s new Agent Mode can draft and restructure Word documents, build formulas and tables in Excel, and update PowerPoint decks, all in real time.

Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets

Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I’ve been calling it software brain, and it’s a particular way of seeing the world that fits everything into algorithms, databases and loops […]

Another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident

TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security certifications for Context AI, the AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident.