We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. —…
🔍 Simon Willison Nano Banana 2 LiteNano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image ( gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API ), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale". I…
🔍 Simon Willison What's new in Claude Sonnet 5What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning . I always head straight for the "what's new" developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the…
🔍 Simon Willison Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper videoshot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today's shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to…
🔍 Simon Willison shot-scraper 1.10Release: shot-scraper 1.10 The big new feature is shot-scraper video storyboard.yml , described in detail in Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video . Tags: shot-scraper
🔍 Simon Willison Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic CodingOrnith-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…
📰 The Verge AI Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to returnAfter weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access…
📰 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…
💼 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…
🎓 MIT Tech Review Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship productAt an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same…
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…
📰 The Verge AI Meet the lawyer who beat Elon Musk — twiceWatching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman - the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures - was a bit like watching a…
The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my…
🔍 Simon Willison Quoting Jon UdellHuman 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…
🎓 MIT Tech Review The Download: AI “coworkers” and stratospheric internetThis 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. AI agents are not your “coworkers” Imagine coming…
🎓 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…
Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without first laying the groundwork.  The use cases are promising,…
🎓 MIT Tech Review Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hubApple. Anthropic. Disney Research. Google. Meta. Microsoft. NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim R&D hubs from all of these companies. Fewer still are concentrated in a…
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…