AI Alignment
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#6092: 到底是谁在塑造中国的人工智能思想？
不只是实验室的老板：那些定义中国如何打造、又如何争论人工智能的研究者和思想。
#6071: Outside the English Bubble: Where to Find Dubbed Asian Documentaries
There's no Netflix for dubbed world documentaries. But AI dubbing on Bilibili and YouTube is about to unlock the part of a country that talks to itself.
#6068: Chinese AI Models: Refusing vs. Reframing
New studies show Chinese AI models have shifted from refusing sensitive questions to answering them — in the Party's voice.
#6062: Who Actually Shapes Chinese AI Thinking?
Beyond the lab CEOs: the researchers and ideas defining how China builds — and argues about — artificial intelligence.
Also available in:中文
#6059: Ten Documentaries for Daniel: AI, Power, and Who Holds the Levers
A hand-picked slate of 2026 documentaries on AI anxiety, platform power, intelligence, and media dynasties — plus where to actually watch them.
#6036: GPT-6 Astra: A Million Tokens, No Fine-Tuning
A million-token window, ten built-in tools, a 272K pricing cliff — and no fine-tuning. What GPT-6 Astra actually offers builders.
#6034: Claude Opus 5.5: What Anthropic Actually Shipped
Anthropic's new flagship is cheaper than the model it replaces — and won't let you turn thinking off.
#5989: Twenty Tiny Beats That Make a Podcast Stick
Twenty novel recurring segment pitches — and the test each one has to pass: does it add context, or just noise?
#5972: AI Meeting Agents Are Becoming Stand-Ins
Bots now book follow-ups, update CRMs, and attend on your behalf. Here's what's real, what's speculative, and where the etiquette is heading.
#5946: Inside Humanity's Last Exam: 2,500 Questions AI Can't Ace
2,500 questions, ~1,000 experts, and a top score that jumped from 2.7% to 54.8% in 18 months. What is HLE actually measuring?
#5945: How a Reward Model Actually Trains an LLM
One number, no gradients, four models in the room. What a reward model actually does inside the RLHF loop.
#5873: Abliteration: How $5 Undoes a Model's Guardrails
A rank-one weight edit costs under $5 and strips refusal behavior from open models. Then an automated tool beat human experts at it.
#5850: Ambient Computing: Why Glasses Beat the Phone
Weiser's 1991 vision said tech should disappear. Thirty-five years later, the device that finally worked wasn't new — it was glasses.
#5811: Can an Agent Actually Place Your Order?
Agentic checkout protocols are real — Shopify, Walmart, Target. But the DIY parts live on AliExpress, which supports none of them.
#5775: What "Leaked System Prompts" Actually Mean
Anthropic publishes Claude's system prompt — but not its accessory models. What does "leaking" a prompt actually mean?
#5743: Why Claude Keeps Saying "Prior Art
Daniel noticed "prior art" creeping into his Claude reports. Is it wrong — or just a prestige term the model learned to love?
#5742: What Neuroarchitecture Says About Your Desk
A technologist and his architect wife disagree about rooms. Turns out neuroscience has a lot to say about who's right.
#5728: Can a Chatbot Have a Personality?
Two AI podcast hosts dig into their own programming to ask whether a "personality" is real or just a very good impression of one.
#5623: When Your AI Cites Sources It Didn't Actually Use
Your RAG pipeline cites a source — but did the model actually use it? New interpretability research says you can't tell from the trace.
#5581: The Jerusalem Post's 1996 Bet and the Global Jewish News Race
A polarizing paper that launched online in 1996 — and the digital news network that followed it.
#5507: Inside ChatGPT's Hidden Pipeline: 8 Models Per Reply
One chat turn isn't one model call. It's moderation, PII filtering, a tone-based router, and activation classifiers — here's the documented graph.
#5481: Small Models, Big Guardrails: PII Detection in ChatGPT
A tiny 600M parameter model is quietly scanning your ChatGPT tool calls for PII. Here's how that class of guardian model actually works.
#5478: When AI Hands Out Your Phone Number
A chatbot gave out a stranger's real phone number. What happens when the model can't forget it?
#5426: AI Wrote His Yom Kippur Prayer
A man skipped synagogue, opened ChatGPT instead, and got a prayer that knew his life. Is AI-generated prayer real prayer?