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How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

This context limit naturally limits the size of a codebase a LLM can process at one time, and if you feed the AI model lots...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it’s become...

OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

Ed Bayes, a designer on the Codex team, described how the tool has changed his own workflow. Bayes said Codex now integrates with project management...

OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

On Wednesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking, two updated versions of its flagship AI models now available in ChatGPT. The company is wrapping...

The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes

Rather than continue the endless revision cycle, Espinosa took a different approach. According to Hertzfeld, Espinosa created a program that exposed every visual parameter of...

Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

The next time you encounter an unusually polite reply on social media, you might want to check twice. It could be an AI model trying...

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Fine-tuning experiments with 100,000 clean samples versus 1,000 clean samples showed similar attack success rates when the number of malicious examples stayed constant. For GPT-3.5-turbo,...

Can AI detect hedgehogs from space? Maybe if you find brambles first.

"It took us about 20 seconds to find the first one in an area indicated by the model," wrote Jaffer in a blog post documenting...

When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette

If an Iranian taxi driver waves away your payment, saying, "Be my guest this time," accepting their offer would be a cultural disaster. They expect...

White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits

Anthropic's AI models could potentially help spies analyze classified documents, but the company draws the line at domestic surveillance. That restriction is reportedly making the...

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