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…
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 …