Teaching the model: Designing LLM feedback loops that get smarter over time
How to close the loop between user behavior and LLM performance, and why human-in-the-loop systems are still essential in the age of gen AI.Read More
Vibe Coding is Shoot-and-Forget Coding
TL;DR Vibe coding is great for quick hacks; lasting software still needs real engineers.
Vibe coding, the trend of using AI to generate code by describing what you want in natural language, has been hailed as the future of programming. Coined by AI pioneer Andrej...
This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom
Morris found it could also reproduce verbatim passages from copyrighted works, including three out of six book excerpts he tried.Read More
The Download: Taiwan’s silicon shield, and ChatGPT’s personality misstep
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
Taiwanese politics increasingly revolves around one crucial question: Will China invade? China’s...
Indigenous knowledge meets artificial intelligence
There is no word for art in most Native American languages. Instead, the closest terms speak not to objecthood but to action and intention. In Lakota, “wówačhiŋtȟaŋka” implies deep thought or reflection, while “wóčhekiye” suggests offering or prayer. Art is not separate from life; it...
Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
One winter afternoon in a conference room in Taipei, a pair of twentysomething women dragged their friend across the floor. Lying on the ground in checkered pants and a brown sweatshirt, she was pretending to be either injured or dead. One friend picked her up by her arms, the other...
That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget
New research reveals open-source AI models use up to 10 times more computing resources than closed alternatives, potentially negating cost advantages for enterprise deployments.Read More
Gartner: GPT-5 is here, but the infrastructure to support true agentic AI isn’t (yet)
While OpenAI’s GPT-5 is highly-performant, capable and an important step forward, it features just faint glimmers of true agentic AI. Read More