Short posts
So many nuggets in here, like “Mental health experts told his team, for example, that sleep deprivation was often linked to mania. Previously, models had been “naïve” about this, he said, and might congratulate someone who said they never needed to sleep.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html?smid=url-share
On the one hand, ChatGPT is super popular. On the other hand, AI companies need to make SO MUCH revenue.
Bubble or no bubble? More data here -> 🎁 https://wapo.st/3KfxpXE
Google’s releasing an AI-powered code editor called Antigravity. Like a combination of Claude Code and an agentic web browser, but altogether in one GUI.
They’re really leaning into the idea that coders are gonna become AI managers. Rather than managing all your coding agents manually, there’s an inbox with ongoing tasks.
Unfortunately I ran out of credits halfway through my first task :(
Another glimpse into what people really use ChatGPT for, and it’s … really something
Set up a git scraper for LMArena leaderboards. This csv has all the text ranks since May 2025, and will be updated as rankings change.
lmarena-leaderboard-history/history.csv at main · kevinschaul/lmarena-leaderboard-history
Hell of a story right here
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Must-read story on Common Crawl — the scraped internet data behind many LLMs. They tell publishers they are making progress on takedown requests, but … nope!
Glad we have journalists with tech chops like Alex Reisner who can test their claims
The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
Lovely image editing evals with before/after sliders https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing
Some personal news: I’m now a visual reporter covering AI for the Washington Post’s excellent tech team.
I’m a hacker/journalist with a comp sci background. Expect analysis, explainers and experiments on how AI really works and what it means for us.
RSS heads can find me here kschaul.com/index.xml
Tech giants keep touting a system they built to label AI-generated content. But it only works if everyone uses it.
So I checked. They’re not using it.
I generated a video with OpenAI’s Sora and confirmed it had the Content Credentials metadata, which marks it as AI-generated. I posted it across social media. Every site stripped the metadata off my video. Only YouTube displayed any indication that it was synthetic (hidden behind a menu).
I also tested generating Sora clips using the API and could not believe the outputs have no visible watermark or Content Credentials metadata. I still don’t know if that’s on purpose or an oversight because they don’t answer my emails.
Anyway, many more details in the article (and so much more to say than can fit in one article)
