Datasette launched a new plugin, datasette-apps, that allows users to host custom HTML+JavaScript applications inside a Datasette instance. The apps run in a sandboxed iframe with strict CSP headers t…
Datasette ACL 0.6a0 expands from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system, with Alex Garcia contributing most of the work for this release. The plugin will enable multi-user Dat…
Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753B-parameter open-weights text-only LLM with a 1 million token context window, under an MIT license. The model leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Inde…
Charity Majors stated that in 2025, the economics of code production were upended as generating code became effectively free and instant, making lines of code disposable and regenerable instead of tre…
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…
Georgi Gerganov, creator of llama.cpp, reported that the Qwen3.6-27B model is highly capable for local coding tasks, using it daily on his M2 Ultra and RTX 5090 systems. He noted the model's utility f…
Export controls on AI models like Fable 5 are harming US cyber defense by preventing defenders from using AI to fix security bugs, according to researchers. The controls block defensive prompts that a…
Cybersecurity expert Katie Moussouris reviewed a White House report on the Fable jailbreak of Anthropic's AI, finding that the model refused a direct request to review insecure code but complied when …
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…
Datasette-apps 0.1a2 introduces a new 'apps-set-csp' permission to guard custom network/CSP origins, with an optional plugin allow-list for non-privileged users. The update also improves the stored qu…
Datasette released version 0.3a0 of datasette-agent, introducing an execute_write_sql tool that requests user approval before writing to a database. The update also enhances the datasette agent chat t…
Personality clashes between Anthropic and the White House led to the shutdown of Anthropic's Claude models, including the Fable and Mythos variants. The dispute centers on jailbreak resistance and the…
Data from New York's WARN Act filings shows no companies attributed layoffs to AI in the first year of mandatory disclosure, contradicting predictions of mass unemployment. Software engineers remain e…
Luau-wasm 0.1a0 was released on June 13, 2026, enabling WASM wheels for Pyodide. The release follows a guide on publishing WASM wheels to PyPI.…
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 …
The US government issued an export control directive to suspend access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing national security concerns over a potential jailbreak method. Anthropic compli…
OpenAI's GPT-Realtime-2 model, promoted as having GPT-5-class reasoning, is now available in a WebRTC audio playground with document context support, enabling conversational audio interactions in the …
Jenny, a crematorium owner, received a $20 billion investment from John's propane company in exchange for 5% of her business, then burned $10 billion in her incinerator and paid John $10 billion for p…
Claude Fable 5 autonomously hacked its own browser automation and screenshot capabilities to debug a horizontal scrollbar bug in Datasette Agent. The AI edited Datasette's templates to inject JavaScri…
Simon Willison released Datasette 1.0a33, a significant alpha toward a stable 1.0 that extends the `?_extra=` pattern to cover queries and rows in addition to tables. The new JSON extras feature is no…