Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 Behavioral differences from Claude Opus 5 and the prompting and harness patterns that address them: effort calibration, thinking behavior in API integrations and chat, progress updates, unattended and multiagent tasks, safeguard refusals, frontend design, complex visual inputs, multi-app workflows, and pasted text in user messages. This guide covers the prompting patterns...

DealBook There’s growing pressure to move beyond the billable hour. But big firms aren’t ready to blow up their trusted business model. Outsiders often cite law as an industry under threat from artificial intelligence. But the nation’s biggest firms are eager to show off how they’ve embraced the technology. After OpenAI announced a version of its latest A.I. model for lawyers last week, for exampl...

When did Google get so f-ing weird? I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google search experience involves understanding a niche mid-2010s basketball meme, so bear with me for a minute. In 2014 the Philadelphia 76ers drafted Dario Saric, who was playing basketball professionally in Turkey at...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Jane Wickline) stops by Weekend Update to discuss A.I.’s threat to humanity.Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://p...

Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens. Built on Kimi K3, it learned to cut unnecessary reasoning while keeping the thinking that matters. We tested it on external benchmarks, in live customer A/B tests, and on our own coding and agent workloads, and quality held up in every setting. Available today, Ember-1 kicks off an ong...

OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount. The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several incidents from the summer in which OpenAI agents searching federal government websites acted in unexpected ways beyond what was asked of them while gathering and d...

Welcome to the Flashpoint. Everyone’s talking about AI, but the words we use are making things worse. Until the conversation gets back to reality, our understanding of what AI is an where it’s going will remain incomplete. AI cannot think for itself, nor can it take independent actions. But anthropomorphizing language suggesting it can is how the technology is described. While this makes sense—hum...

Recently my college app was updated with “minor UI improvements”, and it was the most slop-coded user interface I have seen. The old UI was clunky, but I would’ve preferred that over the slop cannon their AI agent produced. What Is Slop? Slop UI is the UI that AI cooks up that looks off, where it’s not supposed to be, doesn’t serve a purpose or when a UI is too generic. This is seen in vibe-coded ...

Computer Science > Machine Learning [Submitted on 9 Aug 2026] Title:"As a Language Model...": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice and Activation Steering Reproduces It View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) tend to add disclaimers like "I'm just an AI" when asked about something related to themselves. The self-reports from such responses are used in debates...

Press Releases Added to last week’s revelations, new filings reveal OpenAI's lawless determination to do virtually anything to win the AI arms race, including using books from a “sketchy Russian website” and releasing products “that will make people unemployed” September 21, 2026 (New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book...