Software engineer working on AI products and platforms @nytimes.com. Wannabe circuit sculpture artist. Sandwich connoisseur.
Jason Bernert
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It's been exactly a year since @columjournreview.bsky.social published this great analysis on how AI search engines are bad at citing the news. Anyone know of related research on whether things have gotten better? www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98%
www.propublica.org/article/the-...
So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.
chatbots are becoming platforms while platforms are becoming chatbots www.theverge.com/news/847067/...
NEW: We analyzed the images Grok created at the beginning of the year and found that a significant portion of the millions of rendered images were sexualizing people without their consent.
— With @kateconger.com and @stuartathompson.bsky.social
Fascinated by this idea from @thebenedictevans.bsky.social of not needed a lot of data to create a specialized recommendation engine when large LLMs are already trained on the worlds data. "You can rent the cold start." www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...
I usually don't gravitate to podcasts like this, but I really enjoyed Ilya Sutskever's question 'What are we scaling?' and the discussion that follows. I'm curious if we'll see the compute race slow a bit in 2026 with a pivot to new research again. www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk...
Excited to see what comes out of this! www.gain-agent-challenge.northwestern.edu
Looks like I have my holiday reading list www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...
A great visual essay by @samwho.dev on how LLMs work! I've been interested in caching techniques to speed up LLM calls, especially for user-facing features. You can cache whole requests, but today I learned that LLMs can also cache at the token level! ngrok.com/blog/prompt-...
Simon Willison wraps up the year of LLMs. Spoiler: it was dizzying. The neologism list is a fun quick read if you don't have time for the whole thing simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
An Open Competition for Investigative TeamsThe Agentic AI Investigative Journalism ChallengeCoding agents can now work through messy document dumps, sur...
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and digital media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Here’s what they had to say.
How far do LLMs give us a step change in how good a search and recommendation system can be? Do they let you build one without needing a vast user base of your own?
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
