After a holiday break full of travel and family affairs, I am finally back to blogging. Since my silence was longer than I expected, I decided to introduce a new project right away. Say hi to Virtual Alexandra. Virtual Alexandra is a chatbot that uses OpenAI (gpt-5.2 at the moment) to...
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less they hew to factual reality. Which: Yeah. A bunch of us told you this. Again: the Purpose of LLM- type “AI” is...
OpenAI Devs showcases GPT-5-codex capabilities for converting wireframes to responsive HTML/CSS apps with framework integrationgpt-5-codex is a new model from OpenAI that is finetuned for coding, especially for front-end. Considering that front-end coding is my least favorite, I'll likely use this...
This recent article in the Japan Times about sovereign AI reminded me of an exchange I had a year ago on this very topic. My advice was solicited on behalf of a senior official in the Japanese government who was preparing for an upcoming dinner with Sam Altman, the Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. As...
You might have read the news that OpenAI is buying Windsurf for a whopping 3B! In other news, Anysphere, the parent company of Cursor, is raising 900M at a valuation of 9B$! That’s a lot of money for code-generating applications. However, it seems reasonable when you realize Cursor is currently at...
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It’s conference season for developers and Microsoft’s annual conference Build just wrapped up. I haven’t paid particular attention to Build in the past, but it’s been interesting to follow this year due to Microsoft’s close collaboration with OpenAI and them pushing ahead with integrating...