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ChatGPT Almost Stopped Citing Reddit. What Happened to the “Reddit SEO” Strategy?
For the last two years, “just post it on Reddit” was treated as a cheat code for AI visibility. Get a thread ranking for your product…Continue reading on Medium »
Grounding an AI Agent Is Not the Same as Proving It Is Right
A real file path can stop an agent from inventing evidence. It cannot prove that the evidence supports what the agent is claiming.Continue reading on Medium »
Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
55% of adults under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, up from 31% in 2021. 73% of adults under 30 think AI will lead to fewer U.S. jobs over the next 20 years, up from 61% in 2024. Across all U.S. adults, 71% expect fewer jobs because of AI, while only 5% expect more jobs.
Against Political Polarization: A Unified Framework for Tracing Evolving Political Ideologies on Social Media
The rapid growth of social media has greatly influenced political discourse, highlighting the need to understand individual political ideologies and their temporal dynamics. This task faces challenges such as data scarcity, abundant non-political content, costly and bias-prone manual annotation, and difficulty in modeling future ideological inclinations. To address these issues, we propose TSN4PI, a unified framework for tracking the evolution of political ideologies on social media. It includes two core modules. The PIDN uses large language models with style transfer and unsupervised domain adaptation to enable robust ideology detection and filter irrelevant content from noisy, cross-domain data. The PIPN employs temporal graph neural networks to predict future ideological shifts, enabling comprehensive analysis of ideology presence, intensity, and evolution. We release two large-scale datasets for noncommercial research use to facilitate further work. Extensive case studies on multiple platforms (X and Truth Social) validate the effectiveness of TSN4PI and provide empirical insights into political polarization and the evolution of online ideologies. Our findings offer a nuanced perspective, advancing both methodological development and empirical understanding in this field.
Policy-Invariant Reward Shaping from LLM Feedback: A Framework for Hybrid RL Agents
Combining large language models with reinforcement learning is increasingly explored, yet the theoretical status of LLM-derived reward signals is often left implicit. We formalize the hybrid LLM-planner and RL-controller architecture as a Goal-Augmented Markov Decision Process and show that when the LLM per-state progress score is used as a bounded potential function, the resulting shaping term preserves the optimal policy set even when the LLM scores are inaccurate. This guarantee is stronger than what general LLM-as-reward approaches provide. We verify the result numerically on a small MDP under four potential configurations, including an adversarial one scaled to twenty times the base reward magnitude.
Optimize Your Sampling: Tuned Diffusion Sampling with Bayesian Optimization
Sampling from a diffusion model typically requires many forward passes through a large neural network, making generation computationally expensive. While much work has focused on efficient solvers and samplers, comparatively little attention has been paid to selecting the sampling timesteps themselves. A recent line of work optimizes theoretically derived surrogates for sample quality rather than the quality metric itself. We propose Optimizing Your Sampling (OYS), which instead treats timestep selection as a black-box optimization problem, optimizing the target metric directly with Bayesian optimization. OYS outperforms both the default schedules and those of Align Your Steps on text-to-image generation, and improves over the default schedules on inpainting and other image tasks, in both quantitative and human evaluations. OYS requires no additional training, is applicable even to distilled models, and improves both simple and sophisticated samplers such as Euler and DPM-Solver++. A 5-step OYS schedule retains 89%-94% of the quality of a 50-step schedule while reducing inference cost by 10x.
How to Prepare for Customer Meetings With ChatGPT Work | Tutorial
Spend less time preparing for customer calls and following up afterward. Alex from OpenAI’s Sales team shows how he uses ChatGPT Work to gather account context and create a meeting brief. After the call, ChatGPT Work drafts notes, a follow-up email, and proposed CRM updates for his review.. The result: less time managing the process and more time with customers. https://chatgpt.com/work
How to Create a Solid Blog Draft With ChatGPT Work | Tutorial
Turn scattered launch materials into a solid first draft. Sahil from OpenAI’s Marketing team shows how he uses ChatGPT Work to bring together product documentation, research, meeting notes, and messaging; follow an established blog template; and create a structured launch blog draft. He then reviews, refines, and keeps the draft current as launch details change. https://chatgpt.com/work
How to Turn a Business Question Into a Strategy Deck With ChatGPT Work | Tutorial
Turn a business question into a clear recommendation—without spending days gathering research and building slides. In this demo, Arvind from OpenAI’s Strategy & Business Operations team shows how he uses ChatGPT Work to pull together market research, customer data, and past strategy work; propose a storyline; and create a leadership-ready strategy deck. You’ll see how he reviews the sources and numbers, refines the recommendation, and approves the final readout. https://chatgpt.com/work
LabLLM - A native macOS lab for teaching tiny language models to think — build the architecture, train the we
A native macOS lab for teaching tiny language models to think — build the architecture, train the weights, and watch a small LLM emerge from scratch, locally on Apple Silicon with custom data, tokenizers, checkpoints, and MLX acceleration.
AI Bots in Applied Linguistics
Technical book covering artificial intelligence and related topics in AI. Main subjects include: Linguistics, Artificial intelligence, Pragmatics. Published by IGI Global Scientific Publishing. Available in 2 edition(s). This comprehensive resource provides in-depth coverage suitable for intermediate level readers.
Generative AI in Higher Education Assessment
Technical book covering artificial intelligence and related topics in AI. Main subjects include: Education, Education, higher, Artificial intelligence, Computer-assisted instruction. Published by Springer. This comprehensive resource provides in-depth coverage suitable for intermediate level readers.
Data As a Product Driver
Technical book covering artificial intelligence and related topics in AI. Main subjects include: Artificial intelligence. Published by Apress L. P.. This comprehensive resource provides in-depth coverage suitable for intermediate level readers.
5 Tools for Building and Deploying AI Agents in Production
This article walks through five tools, one for each layer of the stack from building the agent's logic to running all of it at scale.
How to Answer AI System Design Interview Questions
The interview moved from Design YouTube to Design ChatGPT. Here's the framework.
The agentic operating model report
const recordId = 'recmsoSYh97KtZVJb'; This report explains why iteration and governance now eat more than 80% of agent budgets, and the operating model that makes that spend pay off. The agent shipped. The governance didn't. Agents don't fail the way software does. They're non-deterministic,
When AI Engineers Disagree, Who Should You Trust?
The most useful AI answer isn’t always the one that sounds the most confident.Continue reading on Magic AI »
Spec-Driven Development: How I Stopped Vibe Coding My AI Agents
Three models paid to break the spec, before a single line of code gets written.Continue reading on Medium »
The New AI Security Problem: When Agents Have Too Much Access
AI agents are becoming more useful because they can do more than generate text. They can access files, call APIs, send emails, modify…Continue reading on Medium »
AI Is About to Walk Off the Screen — and Almost Nobody Is Asking Who Builds Its Brain
For three years, artificial intelligence has lived inside a chat window.Continue reading on Medium »
GLM-5.3 vs GLM-5.2: What Z.ai Actually Changed for Coding Agents
Z.ai has made a potentially expensive coding-agent upgrade available to its existing $18-per-month plan users without asking them to move…Continue reading on Towards AI »
Nobody Validates the Validator: The Eval Suite Problem in Agent Engineering
Every team shipping an AI agent in 2026 has an eval suite. Dashboards, pass rates, CI gates, LLM judges scoring trajectories against…Continue reading on Towards AI »
Day 72: Large Language Models (LLMs) — The Technology Behind Modern Generative AI
Large Language Models, commonly known as LLMs, have transformed the way we interact with Artificial Intelligence.Continue reading on Medium »
Polynomial Regression in Machine Learning: Teaching Linear Regression to Bend
Linear Regression is one of the first algorithms we usually learn in Machine Learning.Continue reading on Medium »
The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight.…
VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI.The enterprise AI stack is being rewritten in real time, and the decisi...
Lauri Kien Kotcher, CEO and Co-Founder of Different Day – Interview Series
Lauri Kien Kotcher, CEO and Co-Founder of Different Day, is an experienced business leader, brand builder, board director, and strategic advisor whose career spans artificial intelligence, consumer products, retail, healthcare, financial services, and private equity. Before founding Different Day, she served as CEO and board member of quip, where she led a broader shift from oral care to oral wellness, introduced new products, reworked the company’s direct-to-consumer subscription model, and…
Gemini in Chrome Opens to All U.S. Android Users as Auto Browse Goes Mobile
Google opened Gemini in Chrome to all Android users in the United States on August 18, 2026, bringing its built-in browsing assistant to the full U.S. Android user base for the first time. Announced on The Keyword by Charmaine Dsilva, Director of Product Management for Chrome, the release also extends auto browse, the browser's agentic task-completion feature, to phones for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. Gemini in Chrome summarizes long articles, answers questions abo...
OpenAI Puts $5M Behind AI Training and Tools for National Security Oversight Bodies
OpenAI launched an initiative on August 18, 2026 to strengthen democratic oversight of government AI use in national security, committing $5 million in training, technical support, and OpenAI credits to government oversight bodies over the next year. The program targets the institutions already charged with overseeing national security work (the public institutions with established oversight authorities and legally constituted oversight bodies) as AI moves into that work at a speed their…
GLM-5.3 Scores 60 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Matching Kimi K3
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 has been evaluated by Artificial Analysis at 60 on its Intelligence Index, the independent evaluator reported on August 18, 2026, placing the Chinese lab's newest reasoning model level with Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and three points behind Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, the current leader at 63. The score covers GLM-5.3 running at its maximum reasoning effort, the setting Z.ai recommends for coding work. At 60, it sits well above the 35 median of the 181 models in i...
The AI Era Is Increasing Demand for People, Not Eliminating It
Companies across industries are working to make their internal processes more efficient. As a result, we’ve seen the technology become the scapegoat for a consistent string of layoffs. Specifically in the tech sector, companies are blaming massive rounds of layoffs on AI. Market trends around flatter organizations and leaner operations to fund investments are being represented as efficiency gains when in reality, enterprise AI leaders would simply disagree that it’s even possible to replace…
Oracle Health Adds Automated Coding, Dictation, and Chart Review to Clinical AI Agent
Oracle Health has expanded its Clinical AI Agent with three new capabilities — automated professional fee coding, clinician-controlled dictation, and AI-assisted chart review — now available to customers in the U.S., the company announced August 19, 2026. The additions push the agent beyond its original note-generation role and deeper into the revenue cycle, the part of the clinical workflow where documentation turns into billing. The headline addition is professional fee coding for ambulatory…
Relevance Over Scale: Building AI That Survives Contact with Reality
Why smaller, task-specific models are essential for AI in the field Teams can now move from AI prompt to prototype faster than ever. But these prototypes often break in real-world workflows like field service, manufacturing, or facilities management, when precision, consistency, and accountability matter most. The problem is that while AI can always give you an answer, what you actually need is the right answer, in the right context, every single time. This is where most Large Language Models…
Palo Alto Networks Enlists Anthropic, OpenAI and OT Vendors for Critical Infrastructure Defense
Palo Alto Networks on August 19, 2026 launched the Frontier AI Critical Defense Program, a coordination effort that pairs AI labs, software makers and operational technology vendors to shield critical infrastructure from vulnerabilities that AI models are now finding faster than operators can patch. New participants include Anthropic, OpenAI, OT vendors Mitsubishi Electric and Axis Communications, healthcare and financial risk-sharing groups Health-ISAC and the Analysis and Resilience Center…
How AI-Powered Outreach Is Creating a Global Level Playing Field for Tomorrow’s Enterprises
The rapid rise of AI and its disruptive potential has raised numerous questions about its long-term impacts. Yet what most tend to miss, is that rather than stripping the bottom out of the market, the technology is helping to underpin growth across markets. According to a study from S&P Global, for instance, economic expansion has been stronger than expected this year, and this is expected to continue into 2027. Meanwhile, AI and tech-related exports will continue to outperform in 2026…
From Prototype to Production: The Architecture Behind Secure & Governed AI Agents
Building the Responsible AI, security, and governance layers required for enterprise-ready agents The post From Prototype to Production: The Architecture Behind Secure & Governed AI Agents appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Jigsaw Jeeves: Building a Puzzle Assistant using Computer Vision
Conceptual overview and walkthrough of a solution approach in Python The post Jigsaw Jeeves: Building a Puzzle Assistant using Computer Vision appeared first on Towards Data Science.