Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their…
🔍 Simon Willison NetNewsWire StatusNetNewsWire Status I find this inspiring. Brent Simmons retired a year ago, and his retirement project is making one piece of software really, really good - free from any commercial pressure. The…
🔍 Simon Willison datasette 1.0a34Release: datasette 1.0a34 Quoting the release notes: The big feature in this alpha is tools to insert, edit and delete rows within the Datasette interface. These features are available on table…
🔍 Simon Willison datasette-tailscale 0.1a0Release: datasette-tailscale 0.1a0 A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this: datasette tailscale mydata.db \ --ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette-preview This starts a…
🔍 Simon Willison The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber DefenseThe Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense I quoted The Atlantic quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source. Here she is confirming that the "jailbreak"…
🔍 Simon Willison Quoting Matteo Wong, The AtlanticKatie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House’s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal. (She said…
🔍 Simon Willison Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersandTIL: Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand I'm using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA (they call it a "Web Application Firewall > Custom rules > Managed Challenge" these days) to prevent crawlers from…
🔍 Simon Willison datasette-agent 0.3a0Release: datasette-agent 0.3a0 New tool, execute_write_sql , which requests user approval and then writes to a database - taking user permissions into account. #27 I added a mechanism for asking user…
🔍 Simon Willison "They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline Lots of "source familiar with the administration's thinking" and "source close to Anthropic" in this Axios piece, which is…
🔍 Simon Willison Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with PyodideThe Pyodide 314.0 release announcement (via Hacker News ) includes news I've been looking forward to for a long time: You can now publish Python packages built for Pyodide (or any Python runtime…
🔍 Simon Willison luau-wasm 0.1a0Release: luau-wasm 0.1a0 See Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide for details. Tags: lua , webassembly , pyodide
🔍 Simon Willison Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column`Research: Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` It would be neat if arbitrary SQL queries in Datasette could be rendered with additional information based on which columns…
🔍 Simon Willison Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Well this is nuts : The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive…
🔍 Simon Willison OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document contextOpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context I built the first version of this tool in December 2024 to try out the then-new OpenAI WebRTC API for interacting with their realtime audio…
📰 The Verge AI Two-thirds of Americans think AI is advancing too quicklyAccording to the latest Pew Research poll, 49 percent of Americans report using chatbots at least occasionally, but 63 percent think the tech is advancing too quickly. Overall, use of AI chatbots has…
💼 VentureBeat AI Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On…
💼 VentureBeat AI Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructureRailway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B…
💼 VentureBeat AI Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has…
💼 VentureBeat AI Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviewsAlfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he…
💼 VentureBeat AI Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AISalesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a…
💼 VentureBeat AI Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding requiredAnthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team…
💼 VentureBeat AI Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code momentNous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several…
I can 100% attest to the fact that Qwen3.6-27B is a very capable local model for coding tasks. Over the last month and a half I've been using it almost daily, either on my M2 Ultra or on my RTX 5090…
🔍 Simon Willison Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’tWhy AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disruption…
📰 The Verge AI Qualcomm’s latest chip hints that more powerful smart glasses could be on the waySmart glasses are still a nascent category, but chipmaker Qualcomm is hard at work upgrading the silicon to power the next wave of XR devices: the Snapdragon Reality Elite. Although Qualcomm is…
What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down . Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and…
🔍 Simon Willison — a still that playsTool: — a still that plays A progressive enchantment Web Component that turns this markup: Into a still frame with a click to play button which loads the GIF on demand. For when you don't want big…
📰 The Verge AI Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understandsAnthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including…
📰 The Verge AI Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic fight over FableHello and welcome to Regulator, an email for Verge subscribers about technology, politics, and what happens when science crashes headlong into self-interest. Not a subscriber? Sign up here today! Got…
📰 The Verge AI AI search grounded in Facebook posts? What could go wrong?AI is pretty reliable at putting things on your calendar these days, but it hasn't quite cracked answering the related and all-important question of "What should I do this weekend?" Meta's new AI…
🎓 MIT Tech Review Exclusive eBook: How AI is becoming the next military advisorA collection of stories about how militaries are using AI models to make decisions. This subscriber-only eBook is a package of six stories that were originally published in MIT Technology Review…