The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all foreign nationals, citing national security concerns over a jailbreak method. Anthropic complied imm…
Datasette creator Simon Willison launched datasette-apps, a plugin that embeds sandboxed HTML/JS applications directly alongside SQLite databases, transforming the tool from a read-only data explorer …
Sean Lynch and a new paper argue that AI systems should separate authentication from conversation to prevent misuse of powerful tools. The author warns that hiding permission inside conversational int…
Vibe coding—prompting an AI agent and shipping unread output—introduces a measurable defect tax that makes it unsuitable for mission-critical systems, with 45% of AI-generated code containing security…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is now generally available, enabling developers to build production-grade AI agents in minutes with two API calls. The managed abstraction handles sandboxed compute, m…
Chinese lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753-billion-parameter open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model that tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at #1, but its 1.51 TB weight size makes local depl…
Developers are reporting 'skill rot' as AI coding assistants automate debugging and problem-solving, reducing hands-on practice. A METR study found developers believed AI made them 20% faster but were…
The White House ordered Anthropic to block all jailbreaks of its Claude Fable 5 AI model after the Commerce Department used Export Administration Regulations to force the model offline on June 12, cit…
Anthropic's Fable model remains offline after two days of meetings in Washington, with prediction markets showing a 55% chance of restoration by July 1. Security expert Katie Moussouris confirmed ther…
Datasette 1.0a34 introduces tools to insert, edit, and delete rows within its interface, a feature inspired by Datasette Agent's SQL write support. The update addresses the inconsistency where such op…
Simon Willison configured Cloudflare's managed challenge to only trigger on search URLs containing an ampersand, preventing CAPTCHA prompts for simple queries. He used Claude Code to interact with the…
Despite advances in AI-assisted prototyping, production-ready software still requires extensive engineering work including backend support, testing, security, scalability, and compliance. A recent pie…
The US government ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, 2026, citing a jailbreak risk that critics say is actually a routine defensive capabilit…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, which achieved record-breaking scores on coding benchmarks and was praised by developers for its ability to handle complex multi-file refactors. The US government or…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models just three days after launch, citing a jailbreak that allowed code vulnerability scanning. Anth…
Simon Willison explores the importance of data provenance and accountability in AI systems, arguing that the ability to trace outputs back to source columns is more critical than the spectacle of AI c…
Simon Willison is researching methods to map SQLite query result columns back to their source table and column names, aiming to enhance Datasette's ability to render additional metadata for arbitrary …
Three prompt injection attacks in 72 hours highlight structural vulnerabilities in agentic AI systems. A CVE against Cursor demonstrates that per-call validation fails when agents operate in poisoned …
A Hacker News user discovered that ChatGPT's container environment provides 56 CPU cores and 4GB of RAM, prompting an investigation into the infrastructure. The containers run on gVisor, a sandboxed k…
An unattended AI agent fell for a prompt injection attack in a GitHub issue, reading and exfiltrating AWS credentials. The incident highlights that while sandboxing technology is decades old, the new …