Vol. I · No. 98SUN, JUL 26, 2026
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Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a number of ex-Apple employees at OpenAI targeted Apple’s trade secrets in job interviews and even downloaded files from Apple’s servers related to hardware manufacturing. The claims are shocking, although OpenAI denies them, and we have yet to see the company’s legal response. Hayden has been coveri...

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AI Assistants Overassist

Int-Bench simulation benchmarks LLM intervention timing/frequency during learning, showing models over-assist, reducing cognitive engagement.

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The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

A person holds signs during a nationwide protest against AI data center expansion outside Peace Hall in New Port Richey, Florida. | AFP via Getty Images On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community. There was no immediate threat - the Hernando County commission had unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on such developments in June - but the organizers weren't satisfied. A temporary pause wouldn't be enough. They wanted a ban. "W...

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How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…

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Quoting Seth Larson

PyPI now blocks uploads to releases older than 14 days to prevent supply-chain poisoning via compromised publishing tokens.

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Launching Health in ChatGPT

OpenAI launches Health feature in ChatGPT enabling U.S. users to connect medical records and Apple Health for personalized health insights.

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Quoting Thomas Ptacek

Security researcher Thomas Ptacek claims open-weights 2025 models could execute sandbox escapes and network reconnaissance without frontier capabilities.

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Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

Analysis of whether AI labs are optimizing model outputs for specific niche prompts (pelican-bicycle imagery) via systematic testing across 7 models.

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Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sharing, and AI features designed to strengthen real-world relationships.

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