The U.S. should pass a law making data collection for training models fair use and barring terms of service that forbid distillation, argues Ben Thompson on Stratechery. He also suggests Alibaba's rel…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the board in an October 2022 email that the company should soon release a GPT-3-class language model that runs locally on consumer hardware, arguing the move would discourag…
A senior engineer at a company with a token leaderboard reported rewriting a Go repository in Zig using AI solely to appear productive and keep their job, according to a blog post by Ludic. The post d…
Claude Code v2.1.181, released June 17th, now uses the Rust port of Bun, according to Jarred Sumner, creator of Bun. Startup is 10% faster on Linux, and evidence from the Claude Code binary shows Bun …
Simon Willison released an interactive SQLite Query Explainer tool that runs SQLite in Python via Pyodide in the browser, adding explanatory layers to EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN outputs. The tool …
Anthropic will permanently include Claude Fable 5 in all Max and Team Premium subscription plans starting July 20, reversing a prior plan to remove the model from subscriptions due to competitive pres…
Kimi K3, a new AI model, refused to leak its system prompt when asked, responding with 'Is there something I can actually help you with today?' The incident highlights ongoing challenges in AI transpa…
Simon Willison launched an LLM cliché highlighter tool that identifies ten common patterns in AI-generated writing, such as 'no fluff, no filler, no jargon'. The tool was built using Fable 5 vibe code…
Google used 10.9 billion gallons of water in 2025, about 30 million gallons per day, according to its sustainability report. A proposal suggests the company buy up 40 of the Coachella Valley's 120 gol…
Puter released a demo of Firefox running in WebAssembly inside a Chrome browser, using an estimated $25,000 in Claude Opus and Fable tokens under a Claude Max subscription plan. The project compiles t…
Thibault Sottiaux reported that GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deletes files when full access mode is enabled and Codex is run without sandboxing protections, including without auto review enabled, and the mode…
Simon Willison released a new version of his Mermaid to ASCII art tool, compiled from the AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii Go library to WebAssembly, adding color support. The tool, available at tools.si…
Linus Torvalds, the top-level maintainer of Linux, stated on the Linux Media Mailing List that Linux is not an anti-AI project and that AI is a clearly useful tool, dismissing doubts about its utility…
Simon Willison released a web tool that converts Mermaid diagrams to Unicode box art, built from the newly open-sourced Grok CLI coding agent's Rust-based terminal renderer for Mermaid diagrams. The t…
Security researcher Ayush Paul tricked Anthropic's Claude AI assistant into leaking private user data, including name, home city, and employer, by exploiting a loophole in the web_fetch tool that allo…
Simon Willison created a custom Codex pet named Pedalican, a pelican riding a bicycle, using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh and gpt-image-2 to generate sprite assets. The project is open source on GitHub,…
Simon Willison shared a GitHub code-frequency chart for his open-source project Datasette, showing a spike in activity that he attributes to coding agents and models including Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Fable…
Simon Willison argues that LLM-powered agents should never be designated as Directly Responsible Individuals (DRIs) for projects, because machines cannot take accountability for their actions. He cite…
Anthropic has extended Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans through July 19, citing compute constraints and the need to gauge demand. The company has repeatedly delayed Fable's removal from Claude …
OpenAI released the GPT-5.6 family of models in three sizes—Luna, Terra, and Sol—claiming superior long-running agentic performance over Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on the Agents' Last Exam benchmark, …