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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 10 Score 0.8967535537037036

Quoting The New York Times

Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had submitted 20 visa applications through a form available on the S

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 9 Score 0.8913206833333333

Deno is joining Cloudflare

Deno is joining Cloudflare The Deno team released the first version of celld back in August - their open source implementation of the Durable Objects pattern from Cloudflare Workers. Today, Cloudflare are acquiring Deno outright, with the goal of building on c

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 9 Score 0.8783725351851851

Quoting Matthew Green

Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence in our existing public-key encryption a

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 9 Score 0.8748063314814813

A new feature for my blog, built using my voice

I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature almost entirely using my voice, chatting away

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 9 Score 0.8542679055555554

ttok 1.0

Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4 , ran uv tool upgrade ttok , piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to GPT-5/GPT-6 instead! I figured switching the default was a

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Interconnects Oct 9 Score 0.8142419472222223

I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence

I've often been surprised when I hear from top researchers in industry that they think AI will be better than them at their job in a few years, and I didn't really know why I doubted it.

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