We Just Learned to Read AI’s Thoughts.

What We Found Inside Should Change How You Think About Every Benchmark.

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This is not a metaphor. On May 7, 2026, Anthropic published a method that translates what happens inside an AI model’s internal processing into plain text that anyone can read. Not the chain of thought it chooses to show you. Not its visible reasoning. The actual numerical states underneath, the activations that no human h…