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Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models
A new method developed at MIT could root out vulnerabilities and improve LLM safety and performance.
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Thursday, 19 February 2026
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On When Marketing Stopped Planning Events….
The last time I wrote a blog post for Three Geeks was in 2021. It was the height of COVID, and I had just hosted my firs…
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Parking-aware navigation system could prevent frustration and emissions
By minimizing the need to drive around looking for a parking spot, this technique can save drivers up to 35 minutes — an…
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
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After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goal…
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How to Crash the Legal Tech Market
(How to Create a Claude Skill or Plugin for Law and Use It in Claude Cowork) On February 3, 2026, a single product annou…
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LawNext on Location: Lunch with Alex Su of Latitude Legal In Alameda, Calif.
This episode is recorded live, and is best enjoyed on YouTube. Watch the episode here . While Bob is visiting San Franci…
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Personalization features can make LLMs more agreeable
The context of long-term conversations can cause an LLM to begin mirroring the user’s viewpoints, possibly reducing accu…
Monday, 16 February 2026
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Revenue Leakage, Metadata, and the Post Billable Hour Playbook, Stefan Ciesla of Ayora
The billable hour has survived a lot of threats, from alternative fee arrangements to client procurement, but this episo…
Friday, 13 February 2026
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Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
This story has been retracted
Thursday, 12 February 2026
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New J-PAL research and policy initiative to test and scale AI innovations to fight poverty
Project AI Evidence will connect governments, tech companies, and nonprofits with world-class economists at MIT and acro…
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OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.
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Accelerating science with AI and simulations
Associate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has spent his career applying AI to improve scientific discovery. Now he bel…
Wednesday, 11 February 2026
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OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path
Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.
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Fueling New Experiences in Microsoft 365 Copilot with Expanded Copilot Connectors Catalog
Many employees don’t struggle with too much information — they struggle with information that lives in to…
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Using synthetic biology and AI to address global antimicrobial resistance threat
Driven by overuse and misuse of antibiotics, drug-resistant infections are on the rise, while development of new antibac…
Learning
How Values Quietly Shape Your Career with Suzy Welch
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Suzy Welch. Suzy …
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
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AI algorithm enables tracking of vital white matter pathways
Opening a new window on the brainstem, a new tool reliably and finely resolves distinct nerve bundles in live diffusion …
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3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint
MIT Sports Lab researchers are applying AI technologies to help figure skaters improve. They also have thoughts on wheth…
Monday, 9 February 2026
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Moving Beyond Prompts to Protocol-Governed AI
I have just posted a trio of new research white papers to SSRN. These represent the latest output from the Kennedy Idea …
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Human-in-the-Loop Is Systems Stewardship
An investigation into why serious AI work depends less on clever prompts and more on defending invariants, boundaries, a…
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Midpage Goes Native: Legal Research Inside Claude and ChatGPT, with Otto von Zastrow
A fresh Anthropic announcement set off a week of market jitters and existential questions: what happens when the big mod…
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Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable
Removing just a tiny fraction of the crowdsourced data that informs online ranking platforms can significantly change th…
Friday, 6 February 2026
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Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.
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“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio
MIT faculty join The Curiosity Desk to discuss football, math, Olympic figure skating, AI and the quest to cure ovarian …
Cybersecurity
Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets
Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.
Thursday, 5 February 2026
AI & Machine Learning
AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them
Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.
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Helping AI agents search to get the best results out of large language models
EnCompass executes AI agent programs by backtracking and making multiple attempts, finding the best set of outputs gener…
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Introducing Copilot Connector Checker
Copilot connectors extend Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Search to your external business systems. They bring line of…
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OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads
Sam Altman calls AI competitor "dishonest" and "authoritarian" in lengthy post on X.
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Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race
Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.