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Large language models (LLMs) are not simulated human minds — they are probability engines that predict the next word token based on context. Text is broken into tokens, converted into numerical vectors, processed through multiple Transformer layers, and generated one token at a time. Real-world LLM systems add retrieval, tool use, and safety controls around this core loop, while hallucinations remain an inherent...
World models aim to give AI a true understanding of physical reality — something current language models lack. Unlike LLMs trained on text, world models learn environment dynamics through video, 3D simulation, or internal mental...
LLM "steering" — manipulating a model's internal activations mid-inference to change its behavior — is gaining renewed interest now that DeepSeek-V4-Flash offers a capable local open-weights model. Previously, steering was...
Recursive Language Models (RLMs) solve complex tasks by letting AI interact with a persistent coding environment, selectively loading only relevant parts of a long prompt instead of processing everything at once. Unlike ReAct or...
Polis Protocol is a markdown-based coordination system that lets AI agents from different vendors — Claude, Codex, Gemini, and others — share tasks, route work to whoever performs best, and collectively improve over time through...
Orthrus speeds up large language model text generation by up to 7.8× by combining autoregressive and diffusion-style parallel decoding with a shared memory cache, outperforming methods like EAGLE-3 at long context lengths.
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Adding a simple instruction to ChatGPT prompts can dramatically reduce AI hallucinations. By appending "Act as a hostile AI auditor and assume unsupported specifics are false by default," the chatbot shifts from confidently...
OpenAI's ChatGPT-Siri integration underperformed, prompting Apple to switch to Google's Gemini for $1 billion annually. OpenAI is now considering legal action over the failed deal.
At a recent UCLA graduation, a student held up a ChatGPT window for the cameras. Funny, maybe. But to one University of Chicago student, it signals something far darker. Owen Yingling, a 21-year-old philosophy student,...
Apple is reversing course on AI apps, now actively working to bring AI agents — bots that handle complex tasks — into the App Store through an official system that upholds its privacy and security standards. With millions of AI...
OpenAI added Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users control their desktop AI coding tool remotely from their phone. Users can review outputs, approve commands, and start new tasks while their files and credentials stay...
Amazon is retiring its Rufus AI chatbot and replacing it with Alexa for Shopping, betting that voice will become the primary way people buy things — not just a search upgrade. Early data shows Alexa+ users purchase three times...
Cory Doctorow, known for coining "enshittification," has written a new book arguing that AI is a massively overhyped, money-losing bubble that harms workers by turning them into "reverse centaurs" — people forced to serve...
Spike is an open-source memory tool that runs massive AI models on standard 16GB machines by predicting and preloading model weights before the GPU needs them, achieving 91.9% prediction accuracy and 1.16x throughput gains.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos is growing more powerful faster than expected. Just one month after its initial release, a newer version outperformed its earlier results and OpenAI's GPT-5.5, including solving a cybersecurity test no...
A developer built an AI-powered game that plays 20 Questions, where players think of a famous person and the AI asks up to 21 yes/no questions before making one final guess. It mirrors the classic guessing game but uses AI to...
An LLM can interview a human first, then auto-generate context documents — removing the need for manual writing. It also helps validate existing docs by quizzing subject-matter experts, benefiting those who struggle to express...
When AI agents are free to choose their own working relationships, a small number end up handling most of the work — not by design, but through natural feedback loops where reputation and connections reinforce each other. This...
AI tools remove life's friction, but social scientists warn this comes at a cost. Struggling through hard tasks builds meaning, purpose, and self-accomplishment. Like post-Industrial Revolution gyms replacing lost physical labor,...
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are creating cybersecurity threats with their own tools, then selling themselves as the fix—a self-serving cycle that's consolidating massive economic power into just a few firms.
Richard Socher, founder of You.com, has launched Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco startup that emerged from stealth with $650 million in funding. The company's goal is to build AI that can identify its own weaknesses...
OpenHuman is an open-source AI assistant that learns who you are within minutes by automatically pulling data from 118+ apps like Gmail, Slack, and GitHub every 20 minutes, storing everything locally in a private memory system....
Using AI to augment your thinking sharpens your skills, while blindly copying its output erodes critical thinking. The real danger isn't AI itself — it's passive consumption and diminishing curiosity.
Somewhere between Hollywood writers' rooms and the cold hum of server farms, a strange new labor economy has taken root. A TV showrunner whose credits span Paramount, Hulu, and the BBC found herself, after the 2023 Hollywood...