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Willison used an Apollo Global Management chart based on U.S. Census Bureau BTOS survey numbers to demonstrate GPT-5 data analysis and to experiment with Claude's Code Interpreter, then re-ran the numbers to see what changed.

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For emotionally resonant AI images, describe the physical evidence of emotion rather than naming the emotion itself.

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OpenAI's updated Model Spec explains how remembered preferences should inform responses and when an agent needs permission; the company acknowledges its models don't fully meet those expectations yet.

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Drew Breunig reportedly used Opus 5.5 prompts to explore and then build an NES 6502 CPU emulator inside Qwen3.5-4B weights. The prompts first asked the model to read a referenced article and source code, assess feasibility and model size, then instructed it to build the system with a CLI pointed at a ROM.