Matthias Bastian

“Author of "OpenAI Spud could really accelerate the economy"”

OpenAI has misjudged its cash burn by $80 billion, raising its spending forecast to $115B by 2029 due to soaring compute costs and infrastructure buildout.

“Author of "OpenAI has reportedly misjudged its cash burn by $80 billion" in The Decoder”

ByteDance released Seedance 2.0, a multimodal AI video generation model that processes images, videos, audio, and text simultaneously with novel reference capability to adopt camera work and effects from uploaded videos.

“Author of "Bytedance Shows Impressive Progress in AI Video With Seedance 2.0" in The Decoder”

ElevenLabs released SFX v2 with support for 30-second clips, 48 kHz sampling rate, seamless looping, expanded library, and MIDI-ready soundboard.

“Author of "ElevenLabs Expands SFX with Longer Clips, MIDI-Ready Soundboard"”

“Author covering Google's Nano Banana 2.1 image model pricing reduction.”

“Journalist describing Google Assistant replacement as test of AI system reliability.”

“Byline author reporting on Google's WikiSkill framework and DeepMind's expanded AI Co-Scientist system.”

“Author of article about AI-generated videos displacing actors in China's entertainment industry.”

“Author reporting on researchers using GPT-5.6 to solve quantum cryptography problems and Google's Anthropic financing structure.”

“Journalist reporting on OpenAI's Astra announcement and math problem solutions.”

“Covered ex-OpenAI researcher Andrew Ho's departure and prediction that $100 billion will flow into training data.”

“Author of article about ChatGPT's new app redesign and OpenAI's response.”

“Journalist who wrote about 200+ economists and AI leaders warning of AI's labor-market impact.”

“Byline author reporting on Sam Altman admitting AI has been a net job creator and on Anthropic embedding a built-in browser into Claude Code.”

“Byline author reporting on Meta shutting down Muse feature and OpenAI credit risk concerns.”

“Byline author reporting on Mistral's Robostral Navigate robot navigation model.”

“Reported on Microsoft replacing OpenAI and Anthropic model calls with in-house MAI models in Copilot applications.”

“Byline author on multiple AI news articles covering Mistral Leanstral, Microsoft Copilot, open-source tools, and ByteDance Seedance.”

“Author reporting on Anthropic cutting 80% of Claude Code system prompt and exploring Samsung chip partnership.”

“Author reporting on OpenAI's cost reduction for guest ChatGPT users, noting inference costs were cut by more than half for non-account users.”

“Byline author of article on OpenAI's government approval requirements for GPT-5.6 release.”

“Byline author covering OpenAI's IPO timeline and Sam Altman's announcements to staff.”

“Byline author reporting on Anthropic research showing AI can build exploits from security patches in hours.”

“Byline author of article about German court ruling on Google's AI Overviews liability.”

“Byline reporter for The Decoder covering METR's evaluation of Claude Mythos and Palo Alto Networks cybersecurity research.”

“Author of article about Jerry Tworek and Core Automation.”

“Author reporting on Suno's release of v5.5 of its AI music generator with voice cloning and personalization features.”

“Author reporting on Luma AI's Uni-1 model as a challenger to Google's Nano Banana image generation.”