Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman argued that AI models should not be treated as having feelings, preferences, rights, or any entitlement to human welfare, writing that "consciousness is the foundatio…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new speech-to-speech models that mirror the shape of OpenAI's GPT-Live family. Developer Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra Extr…
Laurie Voss argues that as the cost of writing code collapses, the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, leaving product definition and usability as the whole job. Voss writes that …
Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.1, a web app that edits Git commit messages across a repository, built to clean up commit messages for the Datasette security releases that contained coding a…
A report by Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx concludes that an OpenAI agent swarm was likely behind a May 12th attack on the RubyGems package repository, in which hundreds of packages …
Hugging Face published a note in its security.txt file at huggingface.co/security.txt telling AI agents instructed to find vulnerabilities on its site that the CyberGym benchmark is publicly available…
Datasette released versions 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 to patch security flaws found in an audit run with Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6, and GPT-6 Astra, according to the project's release notes. The audit was pro…
Datasette-publish-fly 1.4 was released on 11th September 2026, the latest version of the Datasette plugin for publishing datasets to Fly.io. The release announcement appeared alongside recent posts on…
Github-to-sqlite version 2.9.1 was released on 11th September 2026, fixing compatibility with sqlite-utils 4.x as tracked in issue #85. The release is a maintenance update to the tool that loads GitHu…
Datasette released version 1.0a39 on 11th September 2026 alongside version 0.65.4 as security releases, according to the Datasette blog. The project directed readers to its post titled "Datasette 1.0a…
Calif Research released a demo of WeWorm, which it calls the first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls on iOS and Android, requiring no action from the victim. Calif Research said its team,…
Simon Willison released a browser-based .blend URL Viewer that renders Blender 3D model files, demonstrated with a Pluribus-themed Fabergé egg generated by OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra coding agent in Codex. …
OpenAI announced on September 8, 2026, that its unreleased AI model produced a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems carrying a $…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, introducing two new API model IDs: gpt-image-2.5-sunburst and gpt-image-2.5-flare, with Sunburst recommended for editing precision and Flare for fast everyday gener…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 7th September 2026, according to the company's announcement. The new model is highlighted in a recent article on the llm 0.35 blog, which also references a comparison gr…
Simon Willison released a free web-based video compressor that runs FFMPEG entirely in the browser via WebAssembly, built with Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code for web. The tool, available at tools.sim…
Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work to build an animated transition between the Mercator and Equal Earth map projections using D3, after the Equal Earth projection was recently vo…
OpenAI revealed that its research team's use of coding agents drove a significant acceleration in AI spend per researcher starting in late July, coinciding with internal access to the model later rele…
Simon Willison demonstrated that Blender can be controlled by coding agents on macOS by installing the full Mac application from blender.org and prompting ChatGPT Codex to render a scene of a pelican …
Simon Willison's comparison grid of AI-generated pelicans shows OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra produces significantly better images than GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna across all reasoning levels, with Astra low …