Freshfields’ AI Strategy: Google + Existential Risk Avoidance
Gil Perez, the head of innovation at Magic Circle law firm Freshfields, is taking AI very seriously. ‘We need a learning mindset. Things are moving …
August 2025
The Kryptos Key Is Going Up for Sale
Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the elusive solution to K4, the outdoor sculpture that sits at CIA headquarters.
Microsoft Releases POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language): Bringing Modularity and Scalability to LLM Prompts
Prompt engineering has become foundational in the development of advanced applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). As prompts have grown in complexity—incorporating dynamic components, multiple roles, structured data, and…
Your AI Model Is Not Your Product: The Real Product Is UX, Data, and Trust
Picture this: your data science team finally cracks it. The model hits 95% accuracy, the charts look beautiful, and the demos run flawlessly. You high-five across Zoom, Slack buzzes with…
ByteDance Unveils ToolTrain: A New Tool-Integrated Reinforcement Learning RL Framework that Redefines Repo Deep Search
Issue localization involves identifying exact code locations that require modification to fix software problems, a process that often demands significant manual effort from developers, especially in large repositories. Due to…
I Tested Promptchan Clone AI for 1 Month
Promptchan’s Clone AI lets you copy an existing character or prompt from the community feed—and then make it your own. Think of it as borrowing someone’s template, tweaking the settings,…
OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs
The new version of ChatGPT explains why it won’t generate rule-breaking outputs. WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails were easy to circumvent.
Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company
Igor Babuschkin is leaving xAI less than three years after he co-founded the startup with Elon Musk, following a series of scandals at company.
Waymo finally has a music experience worthy of its robotaxi
Waymo now lets you stream music straight from Spotify, which makes the back seat of a robotaxi feel more like your own private space.
Google CEO adds a new calendar feature at Stripe co-founder’s request
While users often tag companies and CEOs with online feedback and complaints, you know you’ve made it when the CEO not only replies to you, but also implements the change…