Artificial intelligence (AI) will soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs. Not by understanding human psychology or personalising to individuals, but by generating massive volumes of factual-sounding claims. Perfect accuracy is not needed. The appearance of substantive information suffices. LLMs are the perfect tools for political persuasion. A brief conversation Read More
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables large language models to interact with external tools and data sources. Unlike traditional API integrations, MCP provides a standardized interface for AI models to access specialized functionality without requiring custom implementations for each use case. MCP addresses the problem Read More
Online inference with large language models carries serious privacy risks that many users underestimate. Prompts—often containing passwords, emails, private thoughts, medical data, intimate details, and business data—are sent in plain text and processed by third-party servers. These prompts can be seen not only by the major providers but Read More
Qwen3, an open weight large language model (LLM) developed by Alibaba, introduced a feature that stands out: the ability to switch between reasoning-intensive “thinking” mode and lightweight “non-thinking” mode within a single model. In the thinking mode, the model generates an internal <think>...</think> block containing Read More