Back in October, I wrote about Writing (a paper) with OpenAI Codex - which worked, but exhibited a few stumbling blocks. Now, OpenAI have released Prism: a writing tool which they pitch at scientists: Prism, a free workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, powered by GPT-5.2. ChatGPT helps you write and refine LaTeX-and supp... Read more... 27 Jan 2026
In early 2024, I wrote about an idea borrowed from galleries: wall labels as UX for AI disclosure. A wall label does two things at once: it gives viewers a shared vocabulary (“digital print”, “oil on canvas”), and discloses how a piece came about. In this analog form, it’s anything but a cryptographic guarantee. It is a social and institutional ... Read more... 18 Jan 2026
Open Responses is a new specification inspired by the OpenAI Responses API for interacting with LLMs/VLMs/LRMs. The launch partners include OpenAI, OpenRouter, Hugging Face, ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, and Vercel. It could thus supersede the legacy Chat Completions API. The specification is not all encompassing, however. One pitfall I have recently... Read more... 17 Jan 2026
Ethan Mollick commented that he finds it weird that water became the issue for why many people publicly dislike AI: Of all the concerns about AI use, even just limiting it to environmental concerns, water use is generally one of the least important\ . But when I speak with people, especially younger ones, water usually comes up first. Of all the... Read more... 10 Jan 2026
OpenAI have released GPT-5.2 on Thursday. The release in accompanied by an Update document to the GPT-5 System Card. All GPT-5.2 models now have a native knowledge cut-off of August 31 2025 specified. The context window size is 128K for gpt-5.2-chat and 400K for the reasoners (gpt-5.2-thinking and gpt-5.2-pro). The per-token pricing is the same ... Read more... 14 Dec 2025