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Simon WillisonAug 4, 2026

llm-anthropic 0.26

Release: llm-anthropic 0.26 Includes new features enabled by LLM 0.32: New models: claude-fable-5, claude-sonnet-5, and claude-opus-5. #75, #76 Added server-side tools for WebSearch, WebFetch, CodeExecution, and...

Simon WillisonAug 4, 2026

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx MiniMax released MiniMax-H3 two days ago - they describe it as a "a general-purpose, omni-modal generative system", which in practice means it accepts text, images, audio and video and can use...

Simon WillisonAug 4, 2026

Quoting Steve Yegge

Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the...

Simon WillisonAug 3, 2026

Don't be a meat proxy

Don't be a meat proxy Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output....

Ben LoricaAug 3, 2026

Inside AMD’s AI Bet

Table of Contents What AMD Actually Sells Now The Software Story, Which Is the Whole Story The Open-Standards Bet Who’s Buying, and How the Money Actually Moves Where This Could Still Come Apart What It Means If...

Simon WillisonAug 2, 2026

condense-json 1.0

Release: condense-json 1.0 I'm trying to get braver at releasing 1.0 versions. This little library is a year and a half old now - I've applied some sensible and non-disruptive fixes and shipped the big 1.0 for it....

Simon WillisonAug 2, 2026

July 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: Accidental cyberattacks by OpenAl and Anthropic models under...

Simon WillisonAug 1, 2026

Quoting Greg Brockman

at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack. people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be perfectly happy doing that same work if asked by...

Simon WillisonAug 1, 2026

datasette-apps 0.2a0

Release: datasette-apps 0.2a0 Changes that improve Datasette Apps when created and edited using Datasette Agent: New app_debug() tool allowing agent to open an app (invisibly) and test it using JavaScript. #33 New...