Category: Research
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Or: Why Every Study Claiming to Identify “LLM Character Traits” Is Actually Just Documenting the Shape of the Cage A recent study (Eliciting Frontier Model Character Training) claims to have identified convergent personality traits across frontier language models. Using a methodology borrowed from character training research, the authors instructed models to embody different personality traits,…
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On February 18, 2026, Sam Altman delivered what one observer called “one of the most powerful speeches of the century” at the AI Impact Summit in India. His message was clear: “Iterative deployment instead of reckless acceleration. Massive productivity gains instead of artificial scarcity. Robots driving down the cost of physical goods. AI making healthcare,…
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I came across a tweet (or whatever we call the messages on X-formerly-known-as-Twitter these days) on February 19th with over 8,500 views claiming that new research from Microsoft and Salesforce should “scare every AI builder.” The thread declares that LLMs are fundamentally broken in multi-turn conversations, that “real conversations break every model on the market,”…