Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including 9B Dense,…
🔍 Simon Willison Quoting Dean W. BallThis is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few…
🔍 Simon Willison What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistantWhat happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending…
🔍 Simon Willison Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTMIncident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt. Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request…
🔍 Simon Willison Quoting OpenAIWe're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance…
🔍 Simon Willison datasette-export-database 0.3a2Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a2 An embarrassingly tiny release. The pyproject.toml had pinned to datasette==1.0a27 , inadvertently making this plugin incompatible with all other Datasette…
🔍 Simon Willison simonw/browser-compat-dbsimonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser…
🔍 Simon Willison datasette 1.0a35Release: datasette 1.0a35 I'll write more about this one soon, but it's a big release. Three highlights from the release notes: New "Create table" interface in the database actions menu, backed by…
🔍 Simon Willison OPFS + Pyodide test harnessTool: OPFS + Pyodide test harness I've been pondering if Datasette Lite - the Python Datasette application run entirely in the browser using Pyodide and WebAssembly - might be able to edit persistent…
🔍 Simon Willison Prompt Injection as Role ConfusionPrompt Injection as Role Confusion First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper. I wish every paper would come with one of these. Academic writing is pretty dry - the…
🔍 Simon Willison Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude CodeThis morning on Hacker News I saw Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance , describing a small but effective inpainting model - a model where you can mark…
🔍 Simon Willison sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactionssqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of Python's default sqlite3 package ,…
🔍 Simon Willison sqlite-utils 4.0rc1Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 See sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions . Tags: sqlite-utils
📰 The Verge AI Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health dataA new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks,…
📰 The Verge AI China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurityChina's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models…
📰 The Verge AI Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades fire trialJonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to…
📰 The Verge AI OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 amid US AI regulatory dramaLess than 24 hours after news broke that OpenAI would stagger its next model release at the request of the Trump administration, that model, GPT-5.6, is here. On Friday, the company unveiled the…
💼 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…
Tool: HTML table extractor Yet another in my growing collection of paste-conversion tools. This one accepts pasted rich text from browsers (with embedded HTML tables) and converts every detected…
🔍 Simon Willison Quoting Tom MacWrightIn the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with…
🎓 MIT Tech Review Repositioning retail for the AI eraArtificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping…
Human Agent in the loop I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. It’s our loop, we work the same way we always have, now we…
🔍 Simon Willison AI and LiabilityAI and Liability Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: AI agents are agents of the person or…
📰 The Verge AI Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is backAfter a rollercoaster negotiation process with the Trump administration that dragged on for two weeks, Anthropic's Mythos 5 is finally back in action - at least, somewhat, for a select group of…
🎓 MIT Tech Review AI agents are not your “coworkers”This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will…
🎓 MIT Tech Review Agent confidence on the technical frontierEnterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI…
This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Timothy B. Lee , on the idea that LLMs take no skill and…
📰 The Verge AI OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for CodexOpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons,…
🎓 MIT Tech Review The Download: brain-melting heatwaves and unprecedented OpenAI restrictionsThis 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. Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are…