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
I Tried the Best At-Home Pet DNA Test Kits on My Two Cats (2025)
I sent my cats’ saliva to the lab to get health and genetic insights sent to my inbox—with very different results.
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
9 Best Pillows (2025) Tested For Side, Back, and Stomach Sleepers
We’ve spent over a year testing the best pillows to support your noggin, whether you snooze on your side, back, or in a tangle of blankets.
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
AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill
Peak has sold millions of copies and is Aggro Crab’s biggest hit to date. That makes it a prime target for cloning.
A new way to test how well AI systems classify text
Is this movie review a rave or a pan? Is this news story about business or technology? Is this online chatbot conversation veering off into giving financial advice? Is this online medical information site giving out misinformation?
Google adds limited chat personalization to Gemini, trails Anthropic and OpenAI in memory features
Google updated the Gemini app running of Gemini 2.5 Pro to reference all historical chats and offer new temporary chats.Read More
Tiny “talking” robots form shape-shifting swarms that heal themselves
Scientists have designed swarms of microscopic robots that communicate and coordinate using sound waves, much like bees or birds. These self-organizing micromachines can adapt to their surroundings, reform if damaged, and potentially undertake complex tasks such as cleaning polluted areas, delivering targeted medical treatments, or exploring hazardous environments.
OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs
The new version of ChatGPT explains why it won’t generate rule-breaking outputs. WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails were easy to circumvent.