Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps , with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what , but I'm going to expand on that a little bit…
🔍 Simon Willison datasette-acl 0.6a0Release: datasette-acl 0.6a0 This release expands datasette-acl from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system. Alex Garcia did most of the work for this release - we're…
🔍 Simon Willison GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLMChinese 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-apps 0.1a3Release: datasette-apps 0.1a3 Fixed a bug where users without the create-app permission could still create apps. #27 Fixed a bug where it was impossible to grant permission to edit an app to users…
🔍 Simon Willison datasette-apps 0.1a2Release: datasette-apps 0.1a2 Custom network/CSP origins for apps are now guarded by a new apps-set-csp permission, with an optional allowed_csp_origins plugin allow-list for non-privileged users.…
🔍 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…
📰 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…
The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...] Maybe the idealized form…
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…
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12…
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 The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGMLuca Guadagnino's film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023…
📰 The Verge AI Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five monthsFive months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as…
📰 The Verge AI Who decides when AI is too dangerous?On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI. Last weekend,…
📰 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…
🎓 MIT Tech Review The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take offThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck…
🎓 MIT Tech Review A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMsMiami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models…