Inside the AI Black Box: Scientists Are Finally Understanding How Models Think

MIT Technology Review named mechanistic interpretability a 2026 breakthrough. Anthropic's 'microscope' and OpenAI's chain-of-thought monitoring are revealing how AI actually works.

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