OpenAI has soft-released GPT-6 Astra, a new AI model rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and becoming available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as thr…
Llm-openrouter 0.7.1 was released on 2nd September 2026, according to the project's changelog entry. The release is a version update to the llm-openrouter plugin, which connects the LLM command-line t…
Simon Willison released llm 0.34, adding response duration in milliseconds and human-readable format to `llm logs --usage` Markdown output, plus a new `duration_ms` field in `llm logs --short`. The re…
Anthropic released llm-anthropic 0.28 on 2nd September 2026, which now displays reasoning traces by default for supported models and introduces a new `llm_anthropic.ClaudeRefusal` exception for when C…
Llm-gemini 0.34 adds support for the new gemini-3.8-flash model, corresponding to Gemini 3.8 Flash, with low, medium, and high thinking levels. The release also fixes async responses failing to record…
Anthropic updated the system prompts for its Claude consumer applications, adding a new section that prohibits Claude from reproducing song lyrics, poems, or passages from books and articles, as well …
Paint.NET creator Rick Brewster announced that the image editor now includes a from-scratch, clean-room reverse-engineered rewrite of Microsoft's Direct2D API, enabling the software to run on WINE/Lin…
Anthropic released Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1, which scores 52.6% on the new Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 benchmark, up from 24.7% for Fable 5, 29.0% for Opus 5, and 22.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol. In a hands…
OpenAI's Codex desktop app, now rebranded as ChatGPT, bundles a 1.7GB runtime that includes full Python and Node.js installations, native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice open source off…
Simon Willison released a new GeoJSON Map Viewer tool that displays GeoJSON files on a map and exports them as PNG images, built with assistance from GPT-5.6-Sol, Claude Code for web, and Fable 5.1. T…
Datasette-mcp 0.2, the first non-alpha release of the plugin, changes the "rows" output from execute_sql to an array of objects instead of arrays, aiding weaker models in mapping columns. The release …
Tencent released Hy4 Preview, a large language model with a significant size increase from its predecessor Hy3, which had 295B total parameters, 21B active parameters, 256,000 context length, and 598G…
Paul Dix, creator of InfluxDB, said AI wrote 1 million lines of code and refined it over months to produce reliable software now running on millions of developer machines, calling the achievement 'abs…
Simon Willison released llm-anthropic 0.27, an Anthropic plugin for LLM, to ensure compatibility with the anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which switched from httpx to httpx2. The update was prompted …
Drew Breunig, in a blog post titled 'Fable & The End of the Free Lunch,' argues that Anthropic's Claude model 'Fable' marks the end of the era where new AI models automatically improve coding workflow…
Simon Willison, a software engineer and blogger, launched Agentic Engineering Patterns, a new project documenting coding practices for building software with coding agents such as Claude Code and Open…
Simon Willison released llm 0.33, a command-line tool for running LLMs, which adds a --key option to llm embed and llm embed-multi commands and corresponding Python methods, allowing per-call keys for…
Simon Willison argues that the key skill for using coding agents is confidently instructing them and verifying changes, noting that reviewing every line of code is not the most effective validation me…
LLM 0.32.1, a dot-release of the command-line tool for running AI models, fixes broken fresh installs caused by the OpenAI Python library dropping its usage of httpx, which LLM depended on transitivel…
Llm-openrouter 0.7, a plugin for LLM 0.32, now supports reasoning models via OpenRouter's Responses API and adds three server-side tools: Shell, WebFetch, and WebSearch, which can be enabled with opti…