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1 week ago | the-decoder.com | Matthias Bastian

Summary Nvidia delivered another record quarter, but the ongoing US export ban on AI chips to China is cutting deep into its bottom line. CEO Jensen Huang is warning that the policy could have serious consequences for the US tech industry. Nvidia reported $44.1 billion in revenue for the first quarter of its 2026 fiscal year, up 12% from the previous quarter and 69% year-over-year. The company's gross margin came in at 60.5% (non-GAAP: 61.0%).

1 week ago | the-decoder.com | Jonathan Kemper

Summary With Neon, Opera wants to change how the web works—not just for people, but increasingly for AI. The new browser isn't just AI-assisted; it's AI-directed. Neon's built-in agents can collect information, complete tasks, and even generate content, often with little or no user involvement. The browser is organized into three core modules: Chat, Do, and Make. Chat handles familiar tasks like web searches, translations, content generation, and image analysis.

1 week ago | the-decoder.com | Jonathan Kemper

Summary Anthropic is adding a voice mode to its Claude mobile apps, letting users have spoken conversations with its AI for the first time—though only in English to start. Anthropic is adding voice mode to its Claude mobile apps, allowing users to hold spoken conversations with the chatbot. The feature is meant for hands-free situations like cooking, working out, or when you're on the go.

1 week ago | the-decoder.com | Jonathan Kemper

Summary A new study from Microsoft and Salesforce finds that even state-of-the-art AI language models become dramatically less reliable as conversations get longer and users reveal their requirements step by step. On average, the systems' performance dropped by 39 percent in these scenarios.

1 week ago | the-decoder.com | Matthias Bastian

Meta is splitting its AI department into two groups: "AI Products" led by Connor Hayes, focused on the Meta AI Assistant and features inside Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and "AGI Foundations" led by Ahmad Al-Dahle and Amir Frenkel, working on Llama models and advanced reasoning and multimedia models. FAIR, Meta's AI research lab, will continue, though one multimedia team is moving under the new structure. Meta says the change should accelerate product development and give teams more freedom.