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2026-07-11 07:20:45 +0000

2026-07-11

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 10 Score 0.8762416259259258

Quoting Nilay Patel

The reality is to make augmented reality glasses, you need to put a camera next to your eyes that is continuously recording everything you see and processing that to put information over it. There is not another way around it. And there's certainly not a chip

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Latent Space Jul 11 Score 0.7425666236111111

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day after a week of nonstop model releases

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 10 Score 0.7376222578703704

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer ava

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 10 Score 0.6544241523148149

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face's Clem Delangue

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fo

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 10 Score 0.6460908189814816

Hugging Face's CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fo

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AI News Jul 10 Score 0.6012136101851852

How to shrink the token budget without shrinking the team

Jensen Huang has a test for whether an engineer is worth keeping, and it comes with a token budget attached. Speaking on the All-In Podcast at the close of GTC 2026, the Nvidia chief executive said that if a $500,000 engineer's annual AI token consumption came

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Towards Data Science Jul 10 Score 0.5727573662037038

PySpark for Beginners: Building Intermediate-Level Skills

A practical next step into partitions, shuffles, joins, caching, and execution plans. The post PySpark for Beginners: Building Intermediate-Level Skills appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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2026-07-10 08:44:32 +0000

2026-07-10

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OpenAI News Jul 9 Score 0.9371047180555556

GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

Details about the OpenAI Bio Bounty program

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OpenAI News Jul 9 Score 0.9371047180555556

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work

ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 10 Score 0.8872700212962962

Quoting OpenAI

[...] Work on web and mobile runs in the cloud. Work in the desktop app can also use local files and desktop apps with your permission. At launch, cloud Work conversations do not appear in desktop Work; desktop Work threads and local files remain on that compu

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 9 Score 0.8784001138888888

The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol

OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning , and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as Luna $1/$6, Terra $2.50/$15, Sol $5/$30. For comparison, t

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 9 Score 0.8727755768518518

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 Following Muse Spark in April , here's Muse Spark 1.1 - the first Spark model to offer an API. Meta claim significant improvements in agentic tool calling and computer use. There are a lot more details are in the Muse Spark 1.1 Evalu

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 9 Score 0.872447336111111

llm-meta-ai 0.1

Release: llm-meta-ai 0.1 Let's LLM run prompts against the new muse-spark-1.1 model. Tags: llm , meta

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 9 Score 0.8722783546296295

llm 0.31.1

Release: llm 0.31.1 Fix for a bug with OpenAI Chat Completion endpoints where a tool call with empty arguments could result in a JSON error from some providers. #1521 This bug came up when I was testing llm-meta-ai . Tags: llm

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 9 Score 0.7348274541666666

Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI's no. 2 role

OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterpri

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MIT News — AI Jul 9 Score 0.7218270361111111

Tiny robot boats build floating structures

MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.

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2026-07-09 08:48:27 +0000

2026-07-09

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OpenAI News Jul 8 Score 0.9419878282407408

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.

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OpenAI News Jul 8 Score 0.9369878282407408

Helping K–12 educators build practical AI skills

OpenAI Academy and the Walton Family Foundation are bringing hands-on AI Skills Jams to help K–12 educators build practical AI skills for the classroom.

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OpenAI News Jul 8 Score 0.9203211615740742

Introducing GPT-Live

A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 8 Score 0.8852476874999999

Rewriting Bun in Rust

Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post ( since May 9th ) about his Zig to Rust rewrite of Bun for significantly longer than it took him to finish the rewrite. Honestly, it was worth the wait. This is a detailed description of an

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 8 Score 0.8842324097222222

Introducing GPT‑Live

Introducing GPT‑Live OpenAI finally upgraded the model used by ChatGPT voice mode! I've had preview access for a few weeks in the iPhone app, and the new model is very impressive. It also has the ability to spin off harder tasks to GPT-5.5: For questions that

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 8 Score 0.8787537060185184

Quoting Kenton Varda

I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team. AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to me as I tried to review PRs: outlining details of the code t

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HuggingFace Blog Jul 8 Score 0.7991014092592593

Data for Agents

Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.

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Microsoft Research Blog Jul 8 Score 0.7969877578703705

Flint: A visualization language for the AI era

Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, letting AI agents create expressive charts from compact, human-editable specifications. The post Flin

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BAIR Blog Jul 7 Score 0.670321312037037

Intelligence is Free, Now What? Data Systems for, of, and by Agents

... government of the people, by the people, for the people ...     — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the

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2026-07-08 07:42:28 +0000

2026-07-08

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OpenAI News Jul 7 Score 0.9221576157407408

MUFG aims to become AI-native with OpenAI

MUFG uses ChatGPT Enterprise to build an AI-native organization, improve workflows, and deliver new AI-powered financial services at scale.

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OpenAI News Jul 7 Score 0.9221576157407408

Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex

See how Australian Payments Plus uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to move faster through payments complexity. AP+ saves time, improves quality, and keeps human judgment central.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 7 Score 0.8797395884259258

sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations

This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0 , the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (described in this upgrade guide ), this version introduces thr

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 7 Score 0.8747664402777777

sqlite-migrate 0.2

Release: sqlite-migrate 0.2 The version that retires the library, instead implementing a compatibility shim against the new sqlite-utils 4.0 dependency. Tags: sqlite-utils

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 7 Score 0.8743317180555554

github-code Web Component

Tool: github-code Web Component An experimental Web Component built using GPT-5.5 and the following prompt : let's build a Web Component for embedding code from GitHub It takes URLs like that, converts them to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/sqlite-as

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 7 Score 0.8733442180555555

sqlite-utils 4.0

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0 See sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations for details. Tags: sqlite-utils

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 7 Score 0.8564979217592592

sqlite-utils 4.0rc4

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc4 The last RC before the 4.0 stable release. Mainly implements feedback from a detailed review by Claude Fable 5. Tags: sqlite-utils , claude-mythos-fable

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2026-07-07 14:30:47 +0000

2026-07-07

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 6 Score 0.8757452648148147

tencent/Hy3

tencent/Hy3 New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China: Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tencent Hy Team. Following the Hy3 Preview launch in late April,

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HuggingFace Blog Jul 6 Score 0.7866711175925927

PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy

Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.

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Latent Space Jul 7 Score 0.7337257898148148

[AINews] The Field Guide to Fable

a quiet day lets us digest the world's most significant model launch... to date.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.6858120722222223

How ChatGPT adoption has expanded

New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.6708120722222223

Inside Genebench-Pro

Latest item from OpenAI News.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.6708120722222223

Introducing GeneBench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.6708120722222223

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 6 Score 0.6507077518518519

The 'first' AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully auto

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AI News Jul 7 Score 0.6366483768518518

Insilico Medicine advances AI drug for IPF to Phase III trials

Insilico Medicine is advancing to Phase III human trials for testing a drug identified by AI targeting idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). This progression supplies the computational drug discovery sector with empirical test cases, advancing an AI medicine pa

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2026-07-06 09:12:33 +0000

2026-07-06

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 6 Score 0.8941034499999999

sqlite-utils 4.0rc3

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 I hoped to release sqlite-utils 4.0 stable this weekend, but as I worked through the backlog of issues and PRs with a combination of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 the changelog since rc2 kept getting bigger . The biggest new feature i

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HuggingFace Blog Jul 6 Score 0.8096553597222222

🤗 Kernels: Major Updates

Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.

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OpenAI News Jun 29 Score 0.6913218277777778

Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity

A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes.

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Towards Data Science Jul 5 Score 0.5663219467592594

PANet Paper Walkthrough: When Feature Pyramids Go Bottom-Up

Understanding how PANet shortens the path between low-level and high-level features The post PANet Paper Walkthrough: When Feature Pyramids Go Bottom-Up appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 29 Score 0.565054175925926

Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity

AI agents can't remember past conversations. They must constantly reload or retrieve context, which grows less efficient as tasks get longer and more complex. Memora solves this with a scalable memory system separating what’s stored from how it's retrieved. Th

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Google AI Blog Jun 29 Score 0.5563219740740741

Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?

A Google expert explains what it means to take a full-stack approach to AI and why it’s been the foundation of our AI work for so long.

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AI News Jul 3 Score 0.5188216884259259

Takeda signs US$600M AI drug discovery deal with Insilico

Takeda has entered a strategic collaboration with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine to use AI in early-stage drug discovery across the Japanese pharmaceutical company’s therapeutic areas. The companies did not disclose which therapeutic areas or disease target

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Towards Data Science Jul 3 Score 0.4921552800925927

AI Agents Explained: What Is a ReAct Loop and How Does It Work?

How agents reason, act, and observe their way to a final answer, one step at a time The post AI Agents Explained: What Is a ReAct Loop and How Does It Work? appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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AI News Jul 2 Score 0.486544373611111

NVIDIA BioNeMo accelerates Anthropic Claude Science

Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life sciences research. Anthropic has launched the public beta of Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientific research. The platform enables scientist

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2026-07-05 08:20:50 +0000

2026-07-05

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 5 Score 0.8877817611111111

sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)

I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to see if it could help me get to a 4.0 stable release that I felt truly comfortable about, since I try

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 5 Score 0.8874160203703703

sqlite-utils 4.0rc2

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 See sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) .

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 4 Score 0.8846771314814814

Building a World Map with only 500 bytes

Building a World Map with only 500 bytes Iwo Kadziela (assisted by Codex) figured out a way to generate a credible ASCII world map using 445 bytes of data: The key trick is to use deflate compression, which is then wired together using this neat snippet of Jav

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 4 Score 0.8842558351851851

Better Models: Worse Tools

Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model:

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MIT News — AI Jul 1 Score 0.6102595944444444

MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America

During a "Washington Post Live" panel discussion with ASU President Michael Crow, President Sally Kornbluth explored how universities are preparing the next generation of scientists to lead in America’s rapidly changing technological landscape.

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BAIR Blog Jul 1 Score 0.5910928148148148

2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase

Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence

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One Useful Thing Jun 30 Score 0.5732650648148148

The twilight of the chatbots

How work changes along the exponential

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Towards Data Science Jul 4 Score 0.571092851851852

Setting Up Your Own Large Language Model

Still a long way to go, but the future is promising The post Setting Up Your Own Large Language Model appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Towards Data Science Jul 4 Score 0.5677595185185186

Stop Returning Text from RAG: The Typed Answer Contract That Prevents Hallucination

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8A] - The schema is the contract: every field is a question the pipeline asks the model, and every answer is checkable The post Stop Returning Text from RAG: The Typed Answer Contract That Prevents Hallucination appeare

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2026-07-04 04:01:06 +0000

2026-07-04

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 3 Score 0.8900956541666666

Open Source AI Gap Map

Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is "a global partnership building a public option for AI", founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious capital ($400m already committed). They launched their Gap Map a couple

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 3 Score 0.8890220430555554

Quoting Josh W. Comeau

I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales are down significantly from last year. There are likely a lot

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 3 Score 0.8847229689814814

Fable's judgement

One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was to let Fable (and to a certain extent Opus) use their own judgement rather than dictating how they should w

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 3 Score 0.8780488949074073

June 2026 newsletter

The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and US export restrictions GLM-5.2 is the new best open weights model Tokenma

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.8233031620370371

How ChatGPT adoption has expanded

New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.8083031620370371

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.8083031620370371

Introducing GeneBench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.8083031620370371

Inside Genebench-Pro

Latest item from OpenAI News.

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 3 Score 0.7388590643518519

The only AI glossary you'll need this year

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 30 Score 0.6863596064814815

SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters

AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavior more reliable without changing model weights. The post Ski

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2026-07-03 04:01:09 +0000

2026-07-03

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 2 Score 0.8858921550925924

llm-coding-agent 0.1a0

Release: llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Another Fable 5 experiment. Now that my LLM library has evolved into more of an agent framework it's time to see what a simple coding agent would look like built on it. I started a new Python library using my python-lib-template

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 2 Score 0.883997710648148

Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts

Research: Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts One of this morning's AIE keynotes covered dspy , which reminded me I've been meaning to see if it could help me improve the system prompt used by Datasette Agent - so I fir

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 2 Score 0.8818375254629629

Understand to participate

I saw Geoffrey Litt speak at AIE yesterday, and one framing he used particularly resonated with me: Understand to participate Geoffrey was talking about the challenge of collaborating with coding agents as they construct increasingly large and sophisticated ch

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OpenAI News Jun 29 Score 0.8199696824074074

Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity

A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes.

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 29 Score 0.6937020175925926

Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity

AI agents can't remember past conversations. They must constantly reload or retrieve context, which grows less efficient as tasks get longer and more complex. Memora solves this with a scalable memory system separating what’s stored from how it's retrieved. Th

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Google AI Blog Jun 29 Score 0.6849698532407408

Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?

A Google expert explains what it means to take a full-stack approach to AI and why it’s been the foundation of our AI work for so long.

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 2 Score 0.6595264240740741

Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket

Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.

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2026-07-02 04:01:11 +0000

2026-07-02

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MIT News — AI Jul 1 Score 0.7374698509259259

MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America

During a "Washington Post Live" panel discussion with ASU President Michael Crow, President Sally Kornbluth explored how universities are preparing the next generation of scientists to lead in America’s rapidly changing technological landscape.

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Latent Space Jul 1 Score 0.7350735953703704

How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise

Cursor's Pauline Brunet explains how her team of Forward Deployed Engineers help organizations implement agents — essentially setting up software factories.

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BAIR Blog Jul 1 Score 0.7183027722222222

2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase

Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence

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One Useful Thing Jun 30 Score 0.7004754523148148

The twilight of the chatbots

How work changes along the exponential

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2026-07-01 04:01:08 +0000

2026-07-01

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.9433025814814816

How ChatGPT adoption has expanded

New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.9283025814814816

Inside Genebench-Pro

Latest item from OpenAI News.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.9283025814814816

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.9283025814814816

Introducing GeneBench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 30 Score 0.8932543333333333

Quoting Anthropic

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. — Anthropic , on Twitter Tags: anthropic , claude , generative-ai , cla

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 30 Score 0.8904024814814814

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image ( gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API ), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale". I used AI studio to run this prompt: Do a where's Waldo style i

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 30 Score 0.8889427592592591

What's new in Claude Sonnet 5

What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning . I always head straight for the "what's new" developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the official announcement post. Anthropic say of Sonnet 5 that "its

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 30 Score 0.8827302592592592

The AI Compass

The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my answers on my first time through the quiz categorized me as "The

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 30 Score 0.8814816481481481

Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video

shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today's shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to record a video of that routine. I've written before about the imp

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 30 Score 0.8063592449074075

SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters

AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavior more reliable without changing model weights. The post Ski

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 1 Score 0.7487367814814815

The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

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2026-06-30 04:01:07 +0000

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OpenAI News Jun 29 Score 0.9399699180555556

Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity

A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 29 Score 0.8927019694444444

HTML table extractor

Tool: HTML table extractor Yet another in my growing collection of paste-conversion tools. This one accepts pasted rich text from browsers (with embedded HTML tables) and converts every detected table into HTML, Markdown, CSV, TSV, or JSON. Try it out by selec

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 29 Score 0.8843116916666666

Count the number of Safari tabs

Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari: osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window' Tags: safari , til , applescript

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 29 Score 0.880469562037037

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including 9B Dense, 31B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE. Built on top of pretrained

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OpenAI News Jun 26 Score 0.8249699180555556

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, paired with its most advanced safety stack.

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 29 Score 0.8137020412037038

Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity

AI agents can't remember past conversations. They must constantly reload or retrieve context, which grows less efficient as tasks get longer and more complex. Memora solves this with a scalable memory system separating what’s stored from how it's retrieved. Th

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Google AI Blog Jun 29 Score 0.8049699319444445

Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?

A Google expert explains what it means to take a full-stack approach to AI and why it’s been the foundation of our AI work for so long.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 29 Score 0.7369973300925926

Gemini's personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.

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MIT News — AI Jun 29 Score 0.7333033532407407

3 Questions: Beyond data-driven aesthetics

In a new Keller Gallery exhibition, Alexandros Haridis SM ’17, PhD ’22 traces centuries of ideas about aesthetic judgment and explores how design can make complex computational systems visible.

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AI News Jun 29 Score 0.6114351759259259

HP accelerates enterprise workflows with OpenAI Frontier

HP has scaled its OpenAI Frontier integration across global operations to optimise enterprise workflows and accelerate output. The hardware manufacturer initiated testing of the platform in February 2026. Early pilot programs yielded verified operational gains

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 28 Score 0.8899051499999999

Quoting Jon Udell

Human Agent in the loop I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. It’s our loop, we work the same way we always have, now we recruit agents to join the team. An agent-assisted process need no

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 28 Score 0.8856968166666666

Hack Your Summer

Hack Your Summer I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who want to build something real this summer. You’ll learn how to id

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OpenAI News Jun 25 Score 0.8116357606481482

How agents are transforming work

A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 25 Score 0.6849691467592594

Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanations and experiments

Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specific brain regions respond to in language. The post Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanation

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Towards Data Science Jun 28 Score 0.578302850462963

Tail Control: The Counterintuitive Engineering of Reliable Agentic Workflows

Behind a customer's API, a high-quality answer isn't enough. It has to be usable, which means on time. Delivering that consistently is a problem about variance, not speed, and the fixes are counterintuitive. The post Tail Control: The Counterintuitive Engineer

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Towards Data Science Jun 28 Score 0.5749695171296297

I Pitted XGBoost Against Logistic Regression on 358 Matches. The Boring Model Won.

A concrete bias–variance lesson: why the smallest model had the best cross-validated fit, and how to know when to reach for the big hammer. The post I Pitted XGBoost Against Logistic Regression on 358 Matches. The Boring Model Won. appeared first on Towards Da

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 27 Score 0.7312236449074074

Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.

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Ahead of AI Jun 27 Score 0.7222463194444444

Using Local Coding Agents

Using Open-Weight Models in Local Coding Harnesses as an Alternative to Claude Code and Codex Subscriptions

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 24 Score 0.6816423148148149

Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis

Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surfacing just 1.3 candidate variants per patient for expert review. The post Talos: Scaling rare diseas

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Latent Space Jun 25 Score 0.6270287236111112

[AINews] It's Meta-Harness Summer

Move over, Harness Engineering, it is time for the harness of harnesses!

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Towards Data Science Jun 27 Score 0.5783027828703705

We Built a Routing Layer to Cut Our AI Costs. It Broke the Product.

A team cut their AI inference bill by more than half. Three months later, customer satisfaction was dropping and the cost savings were tied to the quality loss. Cost-optimization routing layers are a Pareto trap, and here's the detection methodology that catch

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Towards Data Science Jun 27 Score 0.5749694495370371

How to Build a Powerful LLM Knowledge Base

Use coding agents to power your knowledge base The post How to Build a Powerful LLM Knowledge Base appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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AI News Jun 26 Score 0.5723527222222222

SAP aligns commerce data for AI personalisation

SAP aligns fragmented commerce data structures to enable operational AI personalisation at the execution layer. Enterprise leadership routinely establishes objectives to anticipate customer requirements and deliver relevant interactions across digital touchpoi

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OpenAI News Jun 26 Score 0.9449696328703705

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, paired with its most advanced safety stack.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 26 Score 0.8906856703703703

Quoting Dean W. Ball

This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-release months that they are broadly available. After that per

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 26 Score 0.8887240962962962

Quoting Timothy B. Lee

This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Timothy B. Lee , on the idea that LLMs take no skill and have no learning curve Tags: llms , ai , generative-ai

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 26 Score 0.884226411111111

What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant

What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending it email. Surprisingly, after 6,000 attempts (and $500 in to

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 26 Score 0.8832727074074073

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt. Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request bumping foxhole-lz4 , enter a disagreement loop over whether

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 26 Score 0.8819342814814813

Quoting OpenAI

We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 while being 2x cheaper and Luna brings strong capab

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OpenAI News Jun 23 Score 0.8299696328703705

Helping build shared standards for advanced AI

OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 26 Score 0.655658412962963

It's not about Anthropic vs. OpenAI anymore

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.

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MIT News — AI Jun 23 Score 0.6177476828703704

Exploring the societal impacts of AI

During the AI and Society Forum, leading MIT researchers examined critical questions about AI’s influence on employment and democracy.

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OpenAI News Jun 25 Score 0.9316362194444445

How agents are transforming work

A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 25 Score 0.8907688374999999

AI and Liability

AI and Liability Bruce Schneier on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. If a company hire

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 25 Score 0.8822239300925925

datasette-export-database 0.3a2

Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a2 An embarrassingly tiny release. The pyproject.toml had pinned to datasette==1.0a27 , inadvertently making this plugin incompatible with all other Datasette versions. It's now datasette>=1.0a27 instead. Tags: datasette

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 25 Score 0.8049693930555556

Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanations and experiments

Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specific brain regions respond to in language. The post Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanation

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Lilian Weng's Blog Jun 24 Score 0.6633031037037037

Scaling Laws, Carefully

Scaling laws are one of the most critical empirical findings in deep learning. The observation is simple in form: the training loss $L$ decreases predictably as we scale up model size $N$, dataset size $D$, and compute $C$, following a power-law curve, which a

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 24 Score 0.893277085648148

simonw/browser-compat-db

simonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility data into a SQLite database. This new GitHub repo includes

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 24 Score 0.8836881967592591

Quoting Tom MacWright

In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with purely LLM-generated commit messages. [...] My other reaction

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 24 Score 0.8016429166666668

Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis

Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surfacing just 1.3 candidate variants per patient for expert review. The post Talos: Scaling rare diseas

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Latent Space Jun 25 Score 0.7470293805555556

[AINews] It's Meta-Harness Summer

Move over, Harness Engineering, it is time for the harness of harnesses!

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 25 Score 0.7435423472222222

Europe is pushing back on Washington's chip war

As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now put off limits.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 24 Score 0.6644733921296296

AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals

Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.

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AI News Jun 24 Score 0.607470012037037

Samsung opens ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex access after AI restrictions

Samsung Electronics is expanding employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, giving staff wider use of AI tools for technical and non-technical work. According to OpenAI, the deployment covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all Device eXpe

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OpenAI News Jun 23 Score 0.9499697060185186

Helping build shared standards for advanced AI

OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 23 Score 0.8892649546296295

datasette 1.0a35

Release: datasette 1.0a35 I'll write more about this one tomorrow, but it's a big release. Three highlights from the release notes: New "Create table" interface in the database actions menu, backed by the / /-/create JSON API . It can define columns, primary k

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 23 Score 0.8849394916666666

OPFS + Pyodide test harness

Tool: OPFS + Pyodide test harness I've been pondering if Datasette Lite - the Python Datasette application run entirely in the browser using Pyodide and WebAssembly - might be able to edit persistent SQLite files stored on the user's computer. That's what OFPS

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MIT News — AI Jun 23 Score 0.7377477555555556

Exploring the societal impacts of AI

During the AI and Society Forum, leading MIT researchers examined critical questions about AI’s influence on employment and democracy.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 23 Score 0.6516367273148148

4 days left to save up to $190 on TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

Four days left to save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 — the ultimate founder bootcamp — before Early Bird rates end on June 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register today.

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AI News Jun 23 Score 0.6183717324074074

Omio scales travel product development using OpenAI models

Omio integrates OpenAI models across its engineering operations to accelerate travel product development and launch booking interfaces. The multimodal travel platform coordinates operations with over 3,000 transportation providers across 47 countries. Omio exp

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2026-06-23 04:01:08 +0000

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OpenAI News Jun 22 Score 0.9283027171296298

Codex-maxxing for long-running work

Learn how Jason Liu uses Codex to preserve context, manage complex projects, and help work continue beyond a single prompt.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 22 Score 0.893299823611111

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper. I wish every paper would come with one of these. Academic writing is pretty dry - the impact of a paper can be so much higher if you publish a readable

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 22 Score 0.8928544532407406

Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code

This morning on Hacker News I saw Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance , describing a small but effective inpainting model - a model where you can mark regions of an image to remove and the model imagines what should

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 22 Score 0.7381136958333333

The AI world is getting 'loopy'

The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

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Interconnects Jun 19 Score 0.6800470152777778

Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

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2026-06-22 04:01:07 +0000

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 21 Score 0.8926306046296295

sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions

sqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of Python's default sqlite3 package , including support for complex table transformations , automatic tabl

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 21 Score 0.8924718083333333

sqlite-utils 4.0rc1

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 See sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions . Tags: sqlite-utils

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 21 Score 0.8899995861111111

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents The announcement says this is "for AI agents" but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really necessary, this is an interesting feature for everyone else as well. Short version: you can now create a Clo

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OpenAI News Jun 18 Score 0.8266362648148149

Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 18 Score 0.7732653268518518

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps , with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what , but I'm going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why . The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-c

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Google DeepMind Blog Jun 16 Score 0.6795953824074074

Securing the future of AI agents

Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.

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Latent Space Jun 18 Score 0.6124699402777778

The Professor of Outputmaxxing — Anjney Midha, AMP

We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!

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2026-06-21 04:01:08 +0000

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OpenAI News Jun 17 Score 0.8083031916666668

Introducing LifeSciBench

Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decisions.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.7732659782407406

GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM

Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previous GLM-5 and GLM-5.1 releases, this is 753B parameter, 1.51TB

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.7619891263888888

Quoting Charity Majors

What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down . Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, care

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Interconnects Jun 17 Score 0.6824451240740741

State of the blog, mid-2026

About 3 years since I started writing weekly.

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Towards Data Science Jun 20 Score 0.5816368055555556

7 Crucial Barriers Between Data Teams and Self-Healing Data Architecture

What data teams need to build with AI to make self-healing data architecture a practical reality The post 7 Crucial Barriers Between Data Teams and Self-Healing Data Architecture appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Towards Data Science Jun 20 Score 0.5783034722222223

Making a PDF’s Images Searchable for RAG, Without Paying to Read Them All

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5sexies] - image_df tells you where every picture is. Turning the few that matter into searchable text is a separate, cost-ordered job The post Making a PDF’s Images Searchable for RAG, Without Paying to Read Them All a

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 19 Score 0.8912425064814814

Quoting Sean Lynch

The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...] Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else.

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Interconnects Jun 19 Score 0.8000474379629631

Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 19 Score 0.6552002523148148

Is the US government's Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5's guardrails.  Cybersec

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 19 Score 0.6549993263888889

The US banned Anthropic's Fable 5 release, but the numbers don't seem to care

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5's guardrails.  Cybersec

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MIT News — AI Jun 17 Score 0.629970125

Could AI tell you where you left your keys?

A new spatial memory system for robots efficiently captures details about the objects they see while exploring their environment.

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MIT News — AI Jun 16 Score 0.617470125

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

In its first year, INM has worked across research, workforce development, and industry engagement to help accelerate new manufacturing technologies and their real-world deployment.

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AI News Jun 19 Score 0.6142015037037036

SAP and Google Cloud deploy agentic commerce architecture

SAP and Google Cloud are deploying agentic commerce architecture to automate multi-agent marketing and retail operations at enterprise scale. SAP research indicates 78 percent of businesses consider AI essential for retaining customers in 2026. However, the sa

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2026-06-19 04:01:13 +0000

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OpenAI News Jun 18 Score 0.9466361412037038

Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 18 Score 0.8932652060185184

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps , with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what , but I'm going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why . The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-c

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 18 Score 0.8850591874999999

datasette-acl 0.6a0

Release: datasette-acl 0.6a0 This release expands datasette-acl from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system. Alex Garcia did most of the work for this release - we're fleshing out the plugin that will allow multi-user Datasette instanc

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Google DeepMind Blog Jun 16 Score 0.7995952592592591

Securing the future of AI agents

Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.

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Latent Space Jun 18 Score 0.7324698111111111

The Professor of Outputmaxxing — Anjney Midha, AMP

We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!

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2026-06-18 04:01:08 +0000

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OpenAI News Jun 17 Score 0.9283028615740742

Introducing LifeSciBench

Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decisions.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.8932656402777777

GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM

Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previous GLM-5 and GLM-5.1 releases, this is 753B parameter, 1.51TB

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.8819887884259259

Quoting Charity Majors

What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down . Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, care

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.8598633254629628

— a still that plays

Tool: — a still that plays A progressive enchantment Web Component that turns this markup: Into a still frame with a click to play button which loads the GIF on demand. For when you don't want big GIFs to be loaded unless people want to play them. Here's an ex

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8491753624999999

datasette 1.0a34

Release: datasette 1.0a34 Quoting the release notes: The big feature in this alpha is tools to insert, edit and delete rows within the Datasette interface. These features are available on table pages, and edit and delete are also available as action items on t

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OpenAI News Jun 14 Score 0.8366361949074075

Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network

OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.

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Interconnects Jun 17 Score 0.8024447986111112

State of the blog, mid-2026

About 3 years since I started writing weekly.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 18 Score 0.7456322944444445

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 17 Score 0.7375494240740741

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX's board of directors

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

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2026-06-17 04:01:22 +0000

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.8993076194444444

NetNewsWire Status

NetNewsWire Status I find this inspiring. Brent Simmons retired a year ago, and his retirement project is making one piece of software really, really good - free from any commercial pressure. The software is NetNewsWire, first released in 2002 and made open so

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8804793787037036

datasette-tailscale 0.1a0

Release: datasette-tailscale 0.1a0 A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this: datasette tailscale mydata.db \ --ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette-preview This starts a localhost Datasette server with a Tailscale sidecar that conn

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8801085453703703

Quoting Georgi Gerganov

I can 100% attest to the fact that Qwen3.6-27B is a very capable local model for coding tasks. Over the last month and a half I've been using it almost daily, either on my M2 Ultra or on my RTX 5090 box. I use it for small mundane tasks at ggml-org - nothing r

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8622057675925925

The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense

The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense I quoted The Atlantic quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source. Here she is confirming that the "jailbreak" that got Claude Fable 5 banned under an export control really w

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MIT News — AI Jun 17 Score 0.7499700768518518

Could AI tell you where you left your keys?

A new spatial memory system for robots efficiently captures details about the objects they see while exploring their environment.

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MIT News — AI Jun 16 Score 0.7374700768518518

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

In its first year, INM has worked across research, workforce development, and industry engagement to help accelerate new manufacturing technologies and their real-world deployment.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 16 Score 0.6547812402777778

SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside i

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AI News Jun 16 Score 0.6173320087962962

Insurers pivot AI strategy toward core risk underwriting

AI investments by insurers are now expected to generate tangible business value beyond mere efficiency. According to findings in the 2026 Evident AI Index, insurers are now embedding AI technologies into workflows that directly influence underwriting disciplin

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8985229671296295

Quoting Matteo Wong, The Atlantic

Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House’s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal. (She said that she is not being paid by Anthropic.) The report, Mousso

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8939035222222221

Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand

TIL: Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand I'm using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA (they call it a "Web Application Firewall > Custom rules > Managed Challenge" these days) to prevent crawlers from aggresively spidering my faceted search engine on this site, but

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 15 Score 0.8821771333333333

datasette-agent 0.3a0

Release: datasette-agent 0.3a0 New tool, execute_write_sql , which requests user approval and then writes to a database - taking user permissions into account. #27 I added a mechanism for asking user approval in datasette agent 0.2a0 . The new execute_write_sq

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 15 Score 0.8782354666666666

"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline

"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline Lots of "source familiar with the administration's thinking" and "source close to Anthropic" in this Axios piece, which is the best collection of behind-the-scenes gossip I've seen abo

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OpenAI News Jun 12 Score 0.8249698518518519

New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work

OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.

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OpenAI News Jun 11 Score 0.7683031851851853

BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI

Learn how BBVA scaled ChatGPT Enterprise to 100,000 employees and partnered with OpenAI to accelerate AI-powered banking transformation worldwide.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 15 Score 0.7397021087962963

The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from U.S. government interference.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 15 Score 0.7341525717592593

SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside i

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 12 Score 0.6924920282407407

Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen

Project Ire examined a timely malware sample and determined its intent through reverse engineering—identifying LOTUSLITE characteristics even as most major EDR tools did not detect it. The post Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen appeared first on Micros

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OpenAI News Jun 14 Score 0.9432635620370371

Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network

OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 15 Score 0.8834116305555555

Quoting Julia Evans

[...] Instead, I picture a specific person and I just write for them. Often this person is "me, but 3 years ago" or a good friend. — Julia Evans , write for 1 person Tags: writing , julia-evans

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 14 Score 0.8797690379629629

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disruption - software engineering. In this essay, we argue that there i

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 15 Score 0.7423106861111111

The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg

What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that's hard to comprehend.

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AI News Jun 15 Score 0.6357638097222221

HarmonyOS 7 steps into the AI gap Apple left open in China

Four days after Apple confirmed that Siri AI would not launch in China, Huawei took the stage in Dongguan and declared HarmonyOS 7 the beginning of the agent era. The gap Apple could not fill, Huawei has moved into with an architecture built specifically for i

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AI News Jun 15 Score 0.6340971430555555

Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents

Consumers are showing a willingness to let AI agents take on more shopping-related tasks, according to new research from Accenture. The company’s 2026 Consumer Pulse Research, based on a survey of 25,590 consumers across 16 countries, found that 74% of respond

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MIT News — AI Jun 11 Score 0.599097262962963

MIT affiliates win 2026 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

The fellowships in applied sciences, engineering, and mathematics recognize doctoral students who are pursuing solutions to the most pressing challenges in science and technology.

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Towards Data Science Jun 14 Score 0.568263925925926

4 Lines You Should Include in Your Claude Skill

Without these, Claude will be confidently wrong. The post 4 Lines You Should Include in Your Claude Skill appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 13 Score 0.8712032180555555

Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide

The Pyodide 314.0 release announcement (via Hacker News ) includes news I've been looking forward to for a long time: You can now publish Python packages built for Pyodide (or any Python runtime compatible with the PyEmscripten platform defined in PEP 783 ) di

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 13 Score 0.8700698847222221

luau-wasm 0.1a0

Release: luau-wasm 0.1a0 See Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide for details. Tags: lua , webassembly , pyodide

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 13 Score 0.8698059958333333

Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column`

Research: Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` It would be neat if arbitrary SQL queries in Datasette could be rendered with additional information based on which columns from which tables were included in the results. To build tha

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Latent Space Jun 12 Score 0.6506157018518519

[AINews] Loopcraft: The Art of Stacking Loops

a quiet day lets us highlight a great concept from Peter Steinberger, Boris Cherny, and Andrej Karpathy

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2026-06-13 05:08:54 +0000

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OpenAI News Jun 12 Score 0.9430866657407408

New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work

OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 13 Score 0.8931379351851851

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Well this is nuts : The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 12 Score 0.8912277499999999

OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context

OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context I built the first version of this tool in December 2024 to try out the then-new OpenAI WebRTC API for interacting with their realtime audio models. Last month OpenAI introduced a brand new model to that AP

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OpenAI News Jun 11 Score 0.8864199990740742

OpenAI to acquire Ona

OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.

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OpenAI News Jun 11 Score 0.8864199990740742

BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI

Learn how BBVA scaled ChatGPT Enterprise to 100,000 employees and partnered with OpenAI to accelerate AI-powered banking transformation worldwide.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 12 Score 0.8816800648148148

Quoting Andrew Singleton

Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes. John reports tha

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 11 Score 0.8507337680555555

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive . It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them to get to its goal. I'll illustrate this with an example. I was hacking o

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 11 Score 0.837165249537037

datasette 1.0a33

Release: datasette 1.0a33 This alpha is a significant step on the road to a stable 1.0, finally extending the ?_extra= pattern I introduced in Datasette 1.0a3 to cover queries and rows in addition to tables. That pattern is also now documented ! I wrote a whol

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 12 Score 0.810608700925926

Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen

Project Ire examined a timely malware sample and determined its intent through reverse engineering—identifying LOTUSLITE characteristics even as most major EDR tools did not detect it. The post Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen appeared first on Micros

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 12 Score 0.7401768078703703

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside i

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2026-06-11 13:32:15 +0000

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 11 Score 0.8837131324074073

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired: “We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visible.” Anthropic said in a statement to WIRED. “We made t

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 10 Score 0.8773696138888888

datasette-agent 0.2a0

Release: datasette-agent 0.2a0 Highlights from the release notes: Tools can now ask the user questions mid-execution. Tools that declare a context parameter receive a ToolContext object, and await context.ask_user(...) can ask a yes/no, multiple-choice ( optio

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2026-06-10 22:54:05 +0000

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OpenAI News Jun 10 Score 0.9368316226851853

From data to decisions: how LSEG is scaling trusted AI

See how LSEG uses OpenAI to scale trusted AI across its global business, accelerating insights, shrinking release cycles, and empowering 4,000 employees.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 10 Score 0.8951903004629629

DiffusionGemma

DiffusionGemma Last May Google briefly released an experimental Gemini Diffusion model. I tried the preview at the time and recorded it running at 857 tokens/second. It was an exciting model, but Google made no further announcements about it. That research has

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 10 Score 0.8874865967592591

Quoting Jeremy Howard

Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement: The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI But everyone else should have access to it. By definition, this means the frontier doesn't advance. It also h

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 10 Score 0.8628713189814814

If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know

If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know Jonathon Ready highlights one of the more eyebrow-raising details from the 319 page system card for Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Here's a longer excerpt, highlights mine: In light of the ability of recent mode

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 9 Score 0.8618291893518517

Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5

I didn't have early access to today's Claude Fable 5 release, but I've spent the past ~5.5 hours putting it through its paces. My initial impressions are that this is something of a beast . It's slow, expensive and has been quite happily churning through every

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 9 Score 0.8592500226851851

llm 0.32a3

Release: llm 0.32a3 Almost entirely written by the new Claude Fable 5, see my write-up for more details . Tags: projects , ai , generative-ai , llms , llm , claude-mythos

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OpenAI News Jun 8 Score 0.9308029092592593

Built to benefit everyone: our plan

A vision for the future of AI, focusing on access, safety, and shared prosperity as OpenAI works to ensure AGI benefits everyone.

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OpenAI News Jun 8 Score 0.9283029092592594

Introducing the OpenAI Economic Research Exchange

OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange to study AI’s impact on jobs, productivity, and the economy. Applications are now open for selected research projects.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 8 Score 0.8932495111111111

Siri AI at WWDC 2026

Given how badly burned anyone who took Apple's 2024 WWDC Apple Intelligence announcements at face value was, I'm holding to a strict "I'll believe it when I see it" policy for everything they announced today . The new Siri AI features do at least look feasible

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MIT News — AI Jun 5 Score 0.6169143180555555

The crucial human component in computing and AI

The MIT Ethics of Computing Research Symposium brought together experts and researchers working at the heart of ethical and social impact in technology.

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AI News Jun 8 Score 0.6113484680555555

Aviva deploys AI to stop £230M in sophisticated insurance fraud

Aviva has uncovered a record £230 million in insurance fraud claims and is using AI tools to counter the growing problem. The battleground has changed, and the culprits are also coming armed with a new generation of tools. We're now in an environment where AI

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AI News Jun 8 Score 0.6074697643518518

Weis Markets adds Instacart AI-powered shopping carts to stores

Weis Markets is adding Instacart’s AI-powered shopping carts, Caper Carts, to select stores in Pennsylvania, bringing digital coupons, loyalty features, and repeat-purchase recommendations into the grocery aisle. The Pennsylvania-based grocery chain is working

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2026-06-08 09:09:18 +0000

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 7 Score 0.8846491888888888

datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0

Release: datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 I'm planning several plugins for Datasette Agent which can make edits to existing pieces of text - things like collaborative Markdown editing, updating large SQL queries, and editing SVG files. Agentic editing of text is a l

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 6 Score 0.812134374074074

micropython-wasm 0.1a2

Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a2 I added a CLI to micropython-wasm ( issue #7 ), inspired by the first draft of the blog entry when I realized it would be a great way to illustrate the Try it yourself section. Tags: python , sandboxing , webassembly , micropyth

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 6 Score 0.8112306703703702

Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I've been looking for. I've released it as an alpha package called micropyth

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 5 Score 0.8046501148148147

OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode

OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode OpenAI first teased this in February , but now it's live and "rolling out to eligible personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Business accounts": Lockdown Mode is designed to help prevent the fina

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 5 Score 0.7833561333333332

Quoting Andreas Kling

We will no longer accept public pull requests. [...] A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds. [...] Whether code was typed by hand is beside the point. What ma

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 7 Score 0.7288042643518519

Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?

We're likely to see more price increases as the big AI companies plan to go public.

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2026-06-04 04:15:00 +0000

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OpenAI News Jun 3 Score 0.9750000000000001

OpenAI public policy agenda

OpenAI outlines its public policy agenda for AI, including safety, youth protection, workforce transition, and global standards to ensure AI benefits society.

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OpenAI News Jun 3 Score 0.9750000000000001

Introducing new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind

GPT-Rosalind advances life sciences research with enhanced biological reasoning, medicinal chemistry expertise, genomics analysis, and experimental workflow capabilities.

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2026-06-03 04:09:53 +0000

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OpenAI News Jun 2 Score 0.9750000000000001

Codex is becoming a productivity tool for everyone

The Next Era of Knowledge Work report explores how Codex is transforming productivity through AI-powered research, data analysis, workflow automation, and content creation.

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OpenAI News Jun 2 Score 0.9750000000000001

Codex for every role, tool, and workflow

Discover new Codex plugins, sites, and annotations that help analysts, marketers, designers, investors, and other teams get more done with AI.

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OpenAI News May 29 Score 0.9750000000000001

Boston Children’s uses AI to unlock new diagnoses

Boston Children’s Hospital uses OpenAI technology to improve patient care, reduce operational burden, and help diagnose more than 40 rare disease cases.

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OpenAI News Jun 1 Score 0.9750000000000001

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move fa

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OpenAI News Jun 1 Score 0.9750000000000001

Our views on AI policy and political advocacy

Our approach to AI policy and political advocacy, transparency, support for thoughtful regulation and AI safety, and that no outside political group speaks on the company’s behalf.

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2026-06-01 04:15:28 +0000

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How Endava builds an agentic organization with Codex

Learn how Endava uses Codex to build an agentic organization, accelerating software delivery and reducing requirements analysis from weeks to hours.

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2026-05-31 04:20:27 +0000

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OpenAI News May 29 Score 0.9750000000000001

Strengthening societal resilience with Rosalind Biodefense

OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense, expanding trusted access to GPT-Rosalind for vetted developers and U.S. government partners advancing biodefense, public health, and pandemic preparedness through frontier AI.

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2026-05-29 04:34:56 +0000

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OpenAI News May 28 Score 0.9750000000000001

OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework

Explore OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework and how our AI safety, security, and risk practices align with emerging EU and California regulations.

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OpenAI News May 28 Score 0.9750000000000001

How Endava builds an agentic organization with Codex

Learn how Endava uses Codex to build an agentic organization, accelerating software delivery and reducing requirements analysis from weeks to hours.

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Google AI Blog May 29 Score 0.8250000000000001

Catch up on 12 major I/O 2026 moments

Here are 12 of the biggest Google I/O 2026 keynote moments, including news about Gemini Omni, Gemini 3.5 Flash and more.

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Microsoft Research Blog May 29 Score 0.8250000000000001

Data Formulator 0.7: AI-powered data analytics for enterprise data

Data Formulator introduces AI-powered analytics for enterprise data workflows. Data teams can easily bring enterprise data into an AI-ready workspace where users can explore, analyze, and visualize data with AI agents to turn raw data into actionable insights.

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2026-05-28 04:11:59 +0000

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OpenAI News May 27 Score 0.9750000000000001

Election information and safeguards in 2026

Ahead of global elections, we’re helping people access information, supporting cyber defenders, and increasing AI transparency

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OpenAI News May 27 Score 0.9750000000000001

Building self-improving tax agents with Codex

See how OpenAI, Thrive, and Crete built a self-improving tax agent with Codex, automating filings, improving accuracy, and accelerating workflows.

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2026-05-27 04:09:54 +0000

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OpenAI News May 22 Score 0.9750000000000001

How Virgin Atlantic ships faster with Codex

How Virgin Atlantic used Codex to ship its revamped mobile app on a fixed holiday travel deadline, reaching near-total unit test coverage and zero P1 defects.

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2026-05-26 04:08:45 +0000

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Google DeepMind Blog May 17 Score 0.8999999999999999

Introducing Gemini Omni

Latest item from Google DeepMind Blog.

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2026-05-25 06:46:25 +0000

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OpenAI News May 20 Score 0.9750000000000001

The next phase of OpenAI’s Education for Countries

OpenAI advances Education for Countries, expanding AI adoption in schools with new partnerships, teacher training, and tools to improve global learning outcomes.

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2026-05-24 21:27:53 +0000

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OpenAI News May 22 Score 0.9750000000000001

How Virgin Atlantic ships faster with Codex

How Virgin Atlantic used Codex to ship its revamped mobile app on a fixed holiday travel deadline, reaching near-total unit test coverage and zero P1 defects.

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