A Beginner’s Reading List for Large Language Models for 2026
The large language models (LLMs) hype wave shows no sign of fading anytime soon: after all, LLMs keep reinventing themselves at a rapid pace and transforming the industry as a whole.
Artificial Intelligence
Explore the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. From AI ethics to real-world applications, this category delivers insights that matter for today and tomorrow.
Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women
Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—is letting users buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity deepfakes. Some of these files were specifically designed to make pornographic images banned by…
The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job
Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know which one you’re going to get. Grok is a pornography machine. Claude Code can do anything from building…
DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos
The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to make and edit content shared with the public, a new document reveals. It comes as immigration agencies have flooded social media with content to…
What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier
The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents. Earlier this month, Google announced Personal Intelligence, a new way for people to interact with the company’s Gemini chatbot that…
Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary
From the Gemini Calendar prompt-injection attack of 2026 to the September 2025 state-sponsored hack using Anthropic’s Claude code as an automated intrusion engine, the coercion of human-in-the-loop agentic actions and fully autonomous agentic workflows are the new attack vector for…
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered tool for scientists called Prism, which embeds ChatGPT in a text editor for writing scientific papers. The idea…
Inside OpenAI’s big play for science
In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, in schools—anywhere people have a browser open or a phone out, which is everywhere. Now OpenAI is making…
Leveling Up Your Machine Learning: What To Do After Andrew Ng’s Course
Finishing Andrew Ng’s machine learning course
Why chatbots are starting to check your age
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. How do tech companies check if their users are kids? This question has taken on new urgency…