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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.

<p><strong><a href="https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html">The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription</a></strong></p> I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes:</p> <blockquote> <p>I didn't mean to build most of these things. Usually the Claude session started with something like "<em>write a quick script for X</em>", and one hour later the result is not a <em>quick script for X</em>, nor in the usual case is my problem solved, whatever the original itch happened to be.</p> <p>On that last point, this tec

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."

The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words "every hit delivers Bitcoin" emblazoned across it. It claimed to be advertising a device called Gudtrip, and I thought everything about it sounded […]

<blockquote cite="https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/anthropic-gives-lesson-ai-revenue-hallucination-2026-03-10/"><p>Anthropic defines “run-rate revenue” in two parts. Use the last 28 days of sales ⁠from customers charged on a consumption basis and multiply it by 13. Then, multiply the monthly subscription take by 12, ​and add the two together.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/anthropic-gives-lesson-ai-revenue-hallucination-2026-03-10/">Karen Kwok for Reuters Breakingviews</a>, citing "a person familiar with the ma

The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.

<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude">How we contain Claude across products</a></strong></p> A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly <em>documented</em>, and in the absence of detailed documentation it's hard to know how much I can trust them.</p> <p>Anthropic just published a fantastic overview of how their various sandbox techniques work across <a href="https://claude.ai/">Claude.ai</a>, Claude Code, and Cowork.</p> <blockquote> <p>We constrain where and how an agent can act with process sandboxes, VMs,

<p><strong>Research:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/pyodide-asgi-browser#readme">Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker</a></p> <p><a href="https://lite.datasette.io/">Datasette Lite</a> is my version of Datasette that runs entirely in the browser using Pyodide in WebAssembly.</p> <p>When I first built it <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/4/datasette-lite/">four years ago</a> I used Web Workers and code that intercepts navigation operations and fetches the generated HTML by running the Python app.</p> <p>This worked, but

<p><strong><a href="https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/">I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline</a></strong></p> I've seen a lot of posts on forums from people threatening to quit their careers over AI. This is <em>not</em> one of those: Chad Whitacre is taking concrete steps, starting with this typewritten, scanned letter</p> <blockquote> <p>I'm retiring from tech. Well, "retiring" is euphemistic. I'm stepping away from tech, and that includes Open Source. [...]</p> <p>AI was the last straw. Have you heard of that island off India where the indigenous populat

<blockquote cite="https://mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/116639318125898071"><p>My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/116639318125898071">Daniel Jalkut</a>, via <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/30/jalkut-on-ai">John Gruber</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-gruber">john-gruber</a></p>

The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end.

Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.

Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He's a former engineer at Meta and an experienced tech founder who in 2022 sold his last venture - an e-commerce tool for businesses that use […]

Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: "Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white women will stay 13 seconds [on […]

I haven't seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time - that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bankers have their way, you are going to be their bagholder. Lots of the top-line […]

While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them.

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.

The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of “AI psychosis.” Indeed, ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, […]

This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free. It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal. But there's a catch. There's always a catch. In exchange for the cleaning, Shift wants footage of […]

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios.

Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn't designed to supplant human programmers.

Most people will never own, drive, or even sit inside a Ferrari Luce. (If you can, or do… hit us up.) There's still no question that Ferrari's first electric vehicle is one of the most interesting, surprising cars of the year. With a decidedly un-Ferrari look, and lots of new technology and designs courtesy of […]

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium A new method for extracting lithium could cut costs and emissions from one of the world’s most important materials for EVs and energy storage. The technique uses a weak acid to dissolve silicate minerals. That frees not only the lithium but also other useful materials, including alumina and silica. “At scale, we believe this will be the lowest-cost way of sourcing lithium in the world,” says Ye

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

How Braintrust engineers use Codex with GPT-5.5 to run experiments and code faster.

AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch - because, despite what its website says, there's always a catch - is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots. Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on […]

The alert was raised on May 5 . Four health-care workers in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo had died from an unknown illness within four days. Rapid response teams were sent to investigate, and tests at a research center in Kinshasa revealed the culprit: the Bundibugyo virus, one of the viruses that cause Ebola. Suspected cases of the disease have snowballed in the last few weeks. By May 24, the WHO had estimated that 223 people had died from the disease. There were over 900 suspected cases. Today’s figures are likely to be higher. A couple of weeks ago, I covered th

AI image tools rarely make me feel like I'm part of the creative process. They are, after all, mostly designed so that people with no design experience can type in a few words and get back a usable result. So I was pleasantly surprised by Adobe's latest take on an AI image assistant: It's a […]

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion call to all people to act with courage and solidarity as we enter an age already being transformed by artificial intelligence, the greatest change in human life since the Industrial Revolution. As the pope says, the choice before us—the choice AI presents—is one between the Tower of Babel and the rebuilding of our common humanity. In the biblical story of the T

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a31">datasette 1.0a31</a></p> <p>Another significant alpha release, with two new headline features.</p> <blockquote> <p>Datasette now offers users with the necessary permissions the ability to both <strong>execute write queries</strong> against their database and to <strong>save stored queries</strong> (renamed from "canned queries") both privately and for use by other members of their Datasette instance.</p> </blockquote> <p>There's more detail in <a href="https://datasette.io/blog/2026/sql-write-queries

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.

<p>The most interesting thing about <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h">Anthropic's $65B Series H announcement</a> is this line (emphasis mine):</p> <blockquote> <p>Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers, and our run-rate revenue crossed <strong>$47 billion</strong> earlier this month.</p> </blockquote> <p>Anthropic have made a bit of a habit of sharing their "run-rate revenue" in this kind of announcement, which is an annualized projection of their current revenue - typically calculated by taking the most recent month an

OpenAI shares guidance on third-party AI evaluations, covering how to assess model capabilities, safeguards, and validity for frontier systems.

Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler

<p>Anthropic shipped <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8">Claude Opus 4.8</a> today. My favourite thing about it is this note in the release announcement:</p> <blockquote> <p>Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. There’s still more to be done: we’re working on developing and releasing models that provide many of the same capabilities as Opus at a lower cost.</p> </blockquote> <p>It's so refreshing to see an AI lab honestly describe a release as a minor incremental improvement over the previous model!</p> <p>Honesty seems to be

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/releases/tag/0.25.1">llm-anthropic 0.25.1</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>New model: <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8">Claude Opus 4.8</a> (<code>claude-opus-4.8</code>).</li> <li>New <code>-o fast 1</code> option for <a href="https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/fast-mode">fast mode</a>, for organizations with that feature enabled on their account.</li> <li>Default max_tokens for each model now defaults to that model's maximum output rather than 8,192. <a href="https://github.co

Microsoft is launching a revamped version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, offering a cleaner design that the company claims loads twice as fast. As part of this update, Copilot will provide more reliable and structured responses that are easier to scan, according to Microsoft. The redesign, which is rolling out across desktop and mobile devices, comes […]

<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer">markdown-svg-renderer</a></p> <p>A slightly customized Markdown rendering tool with special treatment for fenced code SVG blocks - it both renders the image and provides a tab for switching to the code view.</p> <p>You can paste in Markdown or give it a URL to a CORS-enabled Markdown file or Gist. <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2Ffea4f7546626d627862dc241a4e3a86a">Here's an example</a> where it loads a Markdown file full of LLM peli

Researchers say they’ve found a new way to extract lithium, a crucial metal used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and energy storage arrays. This new technique could be more environmentally friendly and cheaper than existing ones. The research was published today in Science, and a startup called Rock Zero is working to commercialize the process. “At scale, we believe this will be the lowest-cost way of sourcing lithium in the world,” says Yet-Ming Chiang, one of the study authors, who is an MIT professor and a serial entrepreneur behind climate tech companies includin

Anthropic is releasing Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, and the company is touting the model's "honesty." According to Anthropic, it trains "all [its] models to be honest - for instance, to avoid making claims that they can't support." But it notes that "a general problem with AI models is that they sometimes jump to conclusions, […]

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, hitting a $6 billion valuation. X-energy, which builds small modular nuclear reactors, followed at $11.5 billion. Then came geothermal company Fervo Energy, reaching a market cap of about $12.4 billion. All three have been IPO success stories. And it doesn’t feel like a coincidence that they’re racing to provide electricity in an era of risin

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

This year, there’s been a wave of notable energy companies going public via IPO in the US. The solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, to the tune of $6 billion. X-energy, which is building small modular nuclear reactors, did the same in April, and its stocks surged on its first day of trading to hit a $11.5 billion market cap. Most recently, the geothermal company Fervo Energy went public in mid-May, and its market cap is now about $12.4 billion . Those are all success stories in the IPO world. And it certainly doesn’t feel like a coincidence that all these companies ar

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Arizona graduates that their task is to help shape AI, he was met with a resounding chorus of boos. “I can hear you,” he said, before conceding that fears about disappearing jobs and a broken future were “rational.” This is not exactly the message one hopes to hear while sweating under a polyester gown and tallying student loan payments. Graduates have been jeering at AI pep talks at other commencements too, including ceremoni

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

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

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/AGENTS.md">sqlite AGENTS.md</a></strong></p> SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file <a href="https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/a1e5778889252d2609a59fd9b819d70392c5789e">five days ago</a> - but it's not intended for their own development, it's presumably aimed at people who are pointing agents at the SQLite codebase. It includes:</p> <blockquote> <p>SQLite does not accept pull requests without prior agreement and/or accompanying legal paperwork that places the pull request in the public domain. However, the human SQLite developers

ITBench-AA: Frontier Models Score Below 50% on the First Benchmark for Agentic Enterprise IT Tasks — by Artificial Analysis and IBM

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Stay on top of what’s going on in AI this summer Here at MIT Technology Review, we understand exactly how relentless the pace of news from the world of artificial intelligence feels . New models and capabilities crop up as fast as we can cover them, and the ripple effects they send through tech and wider society are never far behind. Our unique strength lies in cutting through the day-to-day noise to help you understand what’s really happening, and what lie

Cisco and OpenAI are redefining enterprise engineering with Codex, helping Cisco scale AI-native development, accelerate AI Defense work, and automate defect remediation.

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

Warp uses GPT-5.5 and OpenAI models to coordinate coding agents across local, cloud, and open-source development workflows.

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

Reachy Mini goes fully local

Shipping a Trillion Parameters With a Hub Bucket: Delta Weight Sync in TRL

Amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents, there’s a disconnect emerging between ambition and execution. Although 85% of organizations say they want to be agentic within the next three years, 76% say their current operations and infrastructure can’t support that change. They cite a lack of readiness across people, processes, and workflows. The sticky tape problem The challenge is that many organisations are often layering AI agents onto existing operations, rather than reimagine the operating model and how work will need to be rewired, explains Prasun Shah, global CTO for w

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria Despite the growing hysteria over AI’s threat to white-collar jobs, there’s still scant evidence that the technology has had a large-scale impact on the labor market. Analysis of US labor data shows that unemployment in occupations most exposed to AI is actually lower than in less-exposed jobs. There are also no signs that large numbers of workers are shifting from AI-threatened professions into supposedly safer manua

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