Short posts
Interesting study -> New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV. https://wapo.st/49RSstP
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