Vol. I · No. 145FRI, SEP 11, 2026
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How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any…

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Autonomy and Innovation

Agentic cybersecurity favors offensive incentives, structurally disadvantaging incumbents and enabling startup competition.

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Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child. Now there are two. Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…

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Quoting Drew Breunig

Drew Breunig argues frontier model improvements now require careful cost-benefit analysis for coding tasks, as cheaper alternatives (Claude 3.5, K3, GLM) remain sufficient for most use cases.

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Quoting Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds credits AI assistance in debugging Linux kernel code, noting persistence overcame initial AI reluctance to continue problem-solving.

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llm 0.33

llm CLI tool v0.33 upgrades OpenAI Python library to 3.x, adds --key parameter to embed commands, and improves plugin architecture.

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More than just code review

Simon Willison argues effective AI coding agents require instruction and verification skills beyond line-by-line code review.

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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive

Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.

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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

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Over one million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a post. LinkedIn announced the button a few weeks after AI detector Pangram determined that 41 percent of LinkedIn's longform posts were flagged as fully AI generated, which 404 Media reported on. Alongside the AI slop button, LinkedIn introduced "new and improved" classifiers to identify ...

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