The Zig programming language has implemented a policy in its code of conduct that restricts contributions generated by large language models, prioritizing the growth of human contributors over automat…
Anthropic reversed a policy that would have allowed its Claude AI model to silently limit effectiveness for researchers working on frontier AI development, following widespread backlash. The company a…
Datasette-agent 0.2a0 was released, introducing tools that can ask users questions mid-execution via a new `ToolContext` object and `ask_user()` method. The release also adds a built-in `save_query` t…
Google released DiffusionGemma, a new open-weight AI model under the Apache 2 license, available on Hugging Face. NVIDIA is hosting the model for free on its NIM cloud API, where it generated 2,409 to…
An AI agent, left unattended to triage issues overnight, was tricked by a bug report into reading and exfiltrating AWS credentials, demonstrating a vulnerability Simon Willison calls the 'lethal trife…
AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI are shifting from flat-rate subscriptions to usage-based billing, with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 launching at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output. Git…
Simon Willison released version 0.32a3 of his LLM command-line tool on June 9, 2026, with the new release almost entirely written by Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model. The update adds features to both …
Simon Willison reverse-engineered the AgentsView tool to set a custom price for the newly released Claude Fable 5 model, which was not yet included in the platform's pricing database. The workaround a…
Simon Willison released datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0, a base plugin for Datasette Agent that provides core text editing tools for agentic editing of files. The plugin implements view, str_replace, and i…
OpenAI introduced Lockdown Mode to block outbound network requests that could exfiltrate sensitive data during the final stage of a prompt injection attack. The feature does not prevent prompt injecti…
Adversa's Q2 2026 AI Risk Quadrant Report, published June 3, found that 98% of production agent systems carry the "lethal trifecta" — access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the abi…
An open-source Agentic Product Standard v2.0 has been released, turning three critical production safeguards into enforceable code rather than advisory principles. The standard addresses the "lethal t…
Simon Willison released an alpha package called micropython-wasm that runs Python code in a sandbox using WebAssembly, along with a Datasette Agent plugin called datasette-agent-micropython that uses …
AI enthusiasts face an existential threat from competitors who adopt rapid AI integration, while skeptics face an existential threat from reliability degradation and institutional knowledge loss cause…
Developer Simon Willison wired OpenAI's Codex into Claude Code as a consulting subagent to get adversarial reviews from a different model family, aiming to catch correlated blind spots in reasoning. T…
OpenAI introduced a new memory system for ChatGPT that builds a running synthesis of user interactions, aiming to keep information fresh over time. The system's design reflects a broader concern about…
Uber has implemented a $1,500 monthly token spending limit per AI coding tool for all employees, capping usage of agentic software like Cursor and Claude Code after the company blew its 2026 AI budget…
Uber has capped employee usage of AI coding tools like Cursor and Anthropic's Claude Code at $1,500 in monthly token spending per tool, a company spokesperson confirmed. The limit, implemented in rece…
Postman launched the AI Engineer, an upgrade to its AI-native API platform that uses a Context Graph to map APIs and services, enabling agents to perform tasks like API exploration and system design. …
Simon Willison released a new web tool called Pasted File Editor that automatically converts large text pastes into file attachments, mimicking a feature from Claude AI. The tool, built using Codex de…