Cloud architect Corey Quinn praised Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah's influence on Pope Francis's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas*, calling it the most effective vendor lobbying effort he has ev…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, on Thursday, addressing the ethical integration of artificial intelligence into modern society. The document, titled "On Safeguarding…
Datasette-agent 0.1a4 has been released, integrating a new "Start a new agent chat" interface into the Jump to menu via the makeJumpSections() JavaScript plugin hook added in Datasette 1.0a30. The upd…
Software developer Armin Ronacher criticized the growing trend of AI-generated "slop" bug reports on open-source projects, saying users are submitting issues that lack their own voice and contain inac…
The FTC has reached settlements totaling nearly $1 million with Cox Media Group, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for falsely claiming their "Active Listening" service used smart device microphones to…
Datasette Agent is a new, extensible AI assistant for Datasette that provides a conversational interface for querying data and generating charts via plugins. The live demo, running on Gemini 3.1 Flash…
Release of datasette-agent-sprites 0.1a0, a plugin for the Datasette Agent tool that enables running commands within a Fly Sprites sandbox environment. The release was made on May 21, 2026.…
Release of datasette-agent-charts version 0.1a2 on May 21, 2026, which adds "View SQL query" buttons below rendered charts. It also lists recent related articles, including a post about Datasette Agen…
The datasette-agent 0.1a3 update, released on 21st May 2026, adds "View SQL query" buttons for visible tables and collapsed SQL result tool calls, while also hiding empty reasoning chunks. It improves…
SpaceX disclosed in its S-1 filing that it provides compute capacity for its proprietary AI applications, including training Grok 5 at COLOSSUS II, while also selling access to third parties. In May 2…
This article, published on May 20, 2026, highlights a simple HTML tool created by Mike Veerman that simulates different LLM token output speeds, ranging from 5 to 800 tokens per second. The tool is de…
At Google I/O, the most notable announcement was Gemini Spark, an AI agent that integrates with Google apps like Gmail and Calendar, running on the Gemini 3.5 Flash model and a new platform called Ant…
Release of datasette-agent-charts version 0.1a1, which introduces several improvements including enhanced color schemes for bar and waffle charts, interactive tooltips, and a permission check for SQL …
On May 19, 2026, a new model called gemini-3.5-flash was released for the Gemini 3.5 Flash plugin. The author notes that while the model is more expensive, Google plans to use it for all purposes. The…
At Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash, making it generally available for billions of users through products like the Gemini app and Google Search, while also offering it to developers and en…
Version 0.1a4 of datasette-llm-accountant, released on May 19, 2026, which fixes a bug related to tracking chains of responses. It also lists recent articles from the same date, covering topics such a…
Release of `llm-gemini 0.32a0` on May 19, 2026, which is compatible with `llm>=0.32a0` and introduces an alpha feature for streaming reasoning tokens. It also lists recent related articles, including …
Release of datasette-llm version 0.1a8 on May 19, 2026, which includes a bug fix for the `llm_prompt_context()` hook that was not fully collecting chains of responses. The update is listed alongside r…
Key developments in large language models (LLMs) from November 2025 to May 2026, highlighting a critical inflection point where coding agents became reliably effective for daily use. During this perio…
The article describes a morning walk along the Los Angeles River in California, where the author spotted a Brown Pelican and observed Canada Goose goslings near a swan boat lake. The author also menti…