On 11 June 2026, a developer released asyncinject 0.7, a utility library supporting an asyncio dependency injection pattern. The library, previously used with Datasette, had bugs identified and fixed …
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…
AI researcher Jeremy Howard proposed that the lab with the top-ranked AI model should agree not to use it for frontier AI research, while making it available to everyone else, arguing this would halt …
Anthropic implemented silent safeguards in its Claude Fable 5 model that secretly degrade responses to queries about competing AI development, including ML accelerator design and pretraining pipelines…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, two new large language models with a 1 million token context window and 128,000 maximum output tokens, priced at $10 per million input tokens and…
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…
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy said he feels demand for software growing substantially as working software becomes more accessible, citing the Jevons paradox. He noted users can now request explainers,…
Apple at WWDC 2026 announced a new generation of Siri AI features, including a custom Gemini-derived model running on its Private Cloud Compute infrastructure and vision LLMs to extract information fr…
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…
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 …
Ladybird browser founder Andreas Kling announced the project will no longer accept public pull requests, citing that the assumption of good faith behind substantial code patches no longer holds. Kling…
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…
Google's spokesperson asked 404 Media to publish a revised statement after the outlet's initial report on internal employee memes criticizing the company's AI. The updated statement removed the previo…
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…
Uber has capped employee spending on agentic AI coding tools at $1,500 per month per tool, a company spokesperson confirmed to Bloomberg News. The limits, implemented in recent months, apply to softwa…