The looming crisis of AI speed without guardrails
The future will arrive with or without our guardrails. We must design AI’s structures now for a future of abundance rather than disruption.Read More
We Live in an AI-First World
Technology has always shaped how we interact with information, with each era defined by a clear “first.” In the early days, the web and desktop computer were the center of
The Download: pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations
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. Why we should thank pigeons for our AI
Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs
In 1943, while the world’s brightest physicists split atoms for the Manhattan Project, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner led his own secret government project to win World War II. Skinner
TensorZero nabs $7.3M seed to solve the messy world of enterprise LLM development
TensorZero raises $7.3 million to build an open-source AI infrastructure stack that helps enterprises scale and optimize large language model (LLM) applications with unified tools for observability, fine-tuning, and experimentation.Read
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
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
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
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, the coronavirus was