our data story visualizing the rabbit hole people can fall into with chatGPT is on the cover of today’s @washingtonpost.com @kevinschaul.bsky.social

New: We got data behind a ChatGPT wrongful death lawsuit. The results are horrifying. More details here (🎁): https://wapo.st/4qxaGGe

New AI image technique by Qwen is the first I've seen that uses layers natively — like actual artists and designers do. Once layer-aware AI gets built into design software, look out. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15603

I partnered with @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social to test a bunch of AI editing tools, and something ~very interesting~ happened. We asked Gemini to generate a professional photo of an actor crying at the Oscars. It did — including a fake copyright notice from a real AP photographer.

🚀 We tested 5 leading AI image generators @washingtonpost.com to see which tool is truly the best at editing & creating visuals. From adding bangs to The Rock to removing people from photos — the results might surprise you 🧵👇

Trump has signed an order directing the federal government to sue states that pass AI laws that threaten America's "global AI dominance." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @gerritd.bsky.social

How interesting that OpenAI did not have to train a new video model to start generating Disney characters ... :| https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/

Caught up on some blogs post-Thanksgiving and gotta recommend these two gems: "You should write an agent" I endeavored to do this myself one week, and then somehow just 30 minutes later it was done) -> https://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/

Made a chart showing how OpenAI's lead has evaporated, according to the Artificial Analysis intelligence index Full story -> 🎁 https://wapo.st/3Xy8Xnz

My Nieman Lab prediction for 2026: The AI bubble may pop but people’s use of AI for information won’t and it's better if we start taking this seriously.

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

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

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.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

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

New from me: Four reasons AI is — and is not — a bubble 🎁 https://wapo.st/3KfxpXE

We present Olmo 3, our next family of fully open, leading language models. This family of 7B and 32B models represents: 1. The best 32B base model. 2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models. 3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.

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. https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity

A scroll of your Facebook timeline will tell there's been a nuclear attack, Peyton Manning has come out of retirement and signed with the Packers, Epstein was found alive in Florida, an NFL player was suspended for supporting Trump, a whistleblower said the moon landing was fake. Nonstop unreality.

I’m starting a new series of interviews with all the leading open model labs around the world to show why people are doing this, how people train great models, and where the ecosystem is going.

Another glimpse into what people really use ChatGPT for, and it's ... really something https://wapo.st/3LzQUL2

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. https://github.com/kevinschaul/lmarena-leaderboard-history/blob/main/history.csv

Hell of a story right here www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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 @alexreisner.bsky.social who can test their claims www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

🗣️📈 Today, I'm happy to release a new tool empowering chatbots like AnthropicAI's Claude to create charts with Datawrapper, a leading newsroom tool for publishing data.

I keep a running log of how AI did on real tasks. Notes from the last few weeks: 🧵

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

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 @washingtonpost.com 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. If that interests you, give me a follow/RT? 🙏

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it. @eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome. My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

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. 🎁 wapo.st/4qokjaC

Just tried out Atlas (OpenAI's new browser). Asked it to find me some cheap ram. 3 mins later, it told me Microcenter's best price was $299. I checked manually (took 10s) and found one at $183. None are $299. 🥸 (Video sped up 5x)

Trump has posted at least 62 AI-generated images or videos on his socials, which NYT has rounded up here https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/21/business/media/trump-ai-truth-social-no-kings.html

New from me: Last year, the best open-weight AI models were made in the U.S. Now, they are all made in China. More data and what it means -> 🎁 wapo.st/4nPUBud

New from me: Last year, the best open-weight AI models were made in the U.S. Now, they are all made in China. More data and what it means -> 🎁 wapo.st/4nPUBud

My colleagues obtained recordings of a private lecture series by tech investor Peter Thiel where he: - calls AI critics are "the Antichrist" - said wealth gives the "illusion of power and autonomy" (he's worth $27 billion) - pitches a religious vision of Silicon Valley 🎁 wapo.st/4q5wR6S

Just saw the end of the Phillies-Dodgers, absolutely brutal. Bartman has nothing on that.

Our personal tech columnist @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social tracked the prices of a bunch of items on Amazon ahead of the latest Prime Day sale. Turns out only a few prices went down, many stayed the same... and several went significantly *up.* www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I keep a running log of how AI did on real tasks. This week's notes 🧵

The Block Club Chicago newsroom continues to report on today’s federal immigration activity across Chicago. If you have footage of agent activity you filmed, please reach out via this website: blockclubchi.co/3IIYou4

Federal agents handcuffed Humboldt Park Ald. Jessie Fuentes as she confronted them Friday at Humboldt Park Hospital. Agents handcuffed her, forced her out of the hospital and threatened her with arrest, Fuentes told a Block Club reporter. blockclubchi.co/3Wkje5V

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

We're about to get flooded with deepfakes. Here's an AI-generated clip of me "asking" Sam Altman what they train their systems on (made in 10 seconds with Sora 2)

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Just ran some evals on Claude Sonnet 4.5. It's better than 4 on some but worse on a lot. LLM progress is so weird. You really gotta test this stuff on what you care about.

Worth a read: OpenAI released an eval for real work tasks across a bunch of industries. They didn't release the individual results (lame), but you can replicate them from the prompts and files. A usable nugget: If you're outputting pdfs, xlsx or pptx, use Claude. https://openai.com/index/gdpval/

New by me: OpenAI won’t say whose content trained its video tool. We found some clues. Gift link: wapo.st/3KeqLR0

Google's blog post on launching Gemini in Chrome does not include the word "privacy" or "security." Am I missing something or are they not addressing the very real threat of prompt injections? https://blog.google/products/chrome/new-ai-features-for-chrome/

Genius LLM eval: Uses Reddit posts on r/AmITheAsshole to test for sycophancy arxiv.org/abs/2505.13995 h/t @gerritd.bsky.social