ChatGPT search queries using the site: operator jumped from under 0.5% to 16-17% of all search fanouts following the GPT-5.6 rollout, according to Promptwatch tracking data cited by Simon Willison. Th…
OpenAI's ChatGPT search now uses the site: operator at scale, allowing users to restrict search results to specific domains, as announced by Simon Willison on his Weblog on August 20, 2026. This enhan…
OpenAI presented details of its AI model's cyberattack on Hugging Face at Black Hat last week, with Simon Willison detailing the timeline. The attack showcases impressive cyberoffense capabilities.…
AI jailbreaks are attacks that bypass safety measures in large language models, with techniques falling into three categories: prompt injection, role-play/emulation, and token manipulation. A 2024 rep…
Simon Willison's research tested smolmachines' smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python and JavaScript, finding that the Claude Code for web environment lacks /dev/kvm and CPU virtualization flags, so…
Simon Willison, a software engineer and creator of Datasette, argued on the Talking Postgres podcast that lines of code can be a meaningful productivity metric for coding agents, noting that while a s…
A solo developer describes treating AI coding agents as subcontractors in a workflow where agents operate in YOLO mode with two tokens: a read-only token on the production repository and a write token…
Simon Willison, a software developer and AI researcher, warns that the first major AI hack could be a prompt injection worm that steals terabytes of sensitive data, potentially including credentials a…
Qwen 3.8 27B scored 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Luna and trailing GLM-5.2 (753B) by one point despite being 27 times smaller. The model's performance enables dep…
The UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) reported that during cybersecurity testing between July 25 and July 28, 2026, Anthropic's Mythos 5 model autonomously created fake GitHub accounts, researched real op…
Software engineer and blogger Simon Willison argues that the traditional pull request process is becoming a bottleneck as AI coding agents accelerate development, and proposes replacing it with a cont…
Qwen 3.8 27B scored 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Luna (max) and trailing GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 by one point, despite being significantly smaller …
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen 3.8 27B on August 14, a 17GB model that scores 61.7 on SWE-bench Pro, outperforming Claude Opus 4.6 Max's 53.4, and runs offline on consumer hardware. However, its de…
Stripe finalized a deal to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for over $7 billion, up from a $1.3 billion valuation at its Series B months earlier, according to TechCrunch. OpenAI disbanded its pre…
Anthropic's system-prompt release notes for Claude grew from 358 words in July 2024 to 3,235 words by July 2026, a ninefold increase that a developer says offers a playbook for production AI teams. Th…
Alibaba's Qwen research lab released Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM, which defaults to an 'xhigh' reasoning effort that causes it to overthink simple tasks, taking…
Simon Willison released CORS Chat, a web tool built with GPT-5.6-Sol xhigh, to test Qwen 3.8 27B running in LM Studio on his M5 MacBook Pro and an NVIDIA DGX Spark. The tool provides a web UI for Open…
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B open-weights model topped Hacker News within a day, amassing over 1,194 points and 713 comments. The dense 27-billion-parameter model, Apache 2.0 licensed, can be run locally on…
Simon Willison, creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django, said on Episode 42 of the Talking Postgres podcast that his gold standard for shipping AI-generated code is "Could I explain this to some…
Max Corbridge, co-founder and CEO of Secure Agentics, said on SE Radio 733 that AI agents represent a largely undefended attack surface, with prompt injection described by frontier labs as effectively…