Why US federal health agencies are abandoning mRNA vaccines
This time five years ago, we were in the throes of the covid-19 pandemic. By August 2020, we’d seen school closures, national lockdowns, and widespread panic. That year,...
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”...
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...
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
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...
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