James Webb telescope finds ice older than the star it orbits
Radiation and collisions reshape the planetary building materials.
Read note →Winemakers are learning that conservation can be good for business
Healthy soils, native plants, and fewer chemicals are helping vineyards adapt.
Read note →Starship flight 15 powers to orbit—setting up a possible catch on Saturday
One way or another, the company will get some more data on Saturday.
Read note →FAA has lifted its third-ever nationwide ground stop
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy blamed obsolete equipment for the outage.
Read note →datasette-cluster-map 0.19
Release: datasette-cluster-map 0.19 One of the oldest Datasette plugins, and still one of my favorites. It now works with Datasette 1.0a42, and depends on the new datasette-leaflet to ensure…
Read note →datasette-leaflet 0.3
Release: datasette-leaflet 0.3 OpenStreetMap have a very reasonable policy that hits to their hosted tile server should send a referrer header. Datasette table pages used the Referrer-Policy:…
Read note →Millions of Americans are not taking their GLP-1 drugs as prescribed
Cost and access barriers are pushing people to modified use and unapproved versions.
Read note →FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
Airlines praised the AI tool, but the air traffic controllers’ union wasn’t involved.
Read note →In elephants, the resilience of communities has its limits
In Sri Lanka, ecological change is shrinking a park's elephant population.
Read note →Kalshi ditches Trump Jr. as advisor; CEO admitted "optics" weren't good
Trump son advised Kalshi and got equity while Trump admin helped Kalshi in lawsuits.
Read note →OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away
Researcher traces a path from AI reward hacking to potential human extinction.
Read note →Windows 0-day dropped by disgruntled researcher hands hackers System rights
"SignDrop" exploit lets local users gain all-powerful System rights.
Read note →Microsoft’s global outage may be worse than Amazon's or CrowdStrike's, expert says
Governments, hospitals, courts scrambled by global Microsoft outage.
Read note →It's the end of the world as we know it, per a physicist's 1960 prediction
Heinz von Foerster thought population would grow exponentially and "squeeze" us all to death.
Read note →Introducing ChatGPT Wallet
Introducing ChatGPT Wallet, a secure way for agents in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and dots to complete purchases with user approval and existing card protections.
Read note →Screenless GPS: Slate Auto says, "Remember the road atlas"
What’s more fitting than a spiral-bound map for a bare-bones two-door pickup?
Read note →Scientists warn 1.5°C climate change threshold could arrive by 2029
Climate action has stalled for five years as fossil fuel development keeps growing.
Read note →Rocket Report: Starship set for historic test flight; a century of Electron
"You can simplify it as a big tank feeding engines."
Read note →Specialized’s Tarmac SL9 S-Level is built to wreck your Zone 2 ride
Specialized’s second-fastest bike may be the smart buy.
Read note →Shield helps technicians hand off legacy portal work with OpenAI
Shield uses OpenAI to help IT technicians hand off work in legacy portals. Its Forge agents navigate systems so technicians can focus on issues needing their judgment.
Read note →In reversal, American Cancer Society urges routine prostate cancer screening
Men aged 50–69 and at average risk should get PSA screening every two years.
Read note →llm-gemini 0.37
Release: llm-gemini 0.37 Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen today - the lowest cost member of the Gemini 4 family. It's actually not too far off the price of its much bigger siblings, Carbon and…
Read note →How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI
Built primarily on OpenAI models, Amplitude’s proactive product agent, Wave, identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents, and measures the impact.
Read note →Ars Live: What drone attacks on data centers mean for modern life in the cloud
A livestream Ars discussion is happening on November 17 at 1 pm Eastern Time.
Read note →The Elder Scrolls' most obscure adventure gets a 4K PC makeover
N-Gage exclusive Shadowkey gets an AI-coded glow-up with plenty of new features.
Read note →Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash
Gemini 4 Hydrogen isn't getting a slow, security-conscious release like Carbon and Argon.
Read note →Gondola doubles revenue as its team builds more with Codex
Gondola helps creatives get credit and get hired, with Codex raising its lead engineer’s output by 50% and ChatGPT simplifying daily work.
Read note →Holiday Extras is rethinking what it can build with Codex
With Codex, Holiday Extras is turning customer expertise into better apps, higher booking conversion and new possibilities for growth.
Read note →Supporting research on AI and children’s safety
OpenAI commits $2 million to research on AI and children’s safety. The work supports shared tools to measure risks and opportunities for young people.
Read note →Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI
A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.
Read note →Gemini Decisions API
Gemini Decisions API Google join Jev and OpenAI in the decision model category with "Gemini Decision 1". This new model API is almost identical to Jev: it supports the same three types of questions…
Read note →aws-emulator
aws-emulator Finally, an official emulator from AWS to run tests against a local clone of their many different services without having to provision a paid API key to do so. It's written in Rust by…
Read note →Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag
Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag I've been wanting a better way to browse my collection of vibe-coded tools (244 and counting) for a while. I had a few Fable 5.2 credits left over before my…
Read note →llm 0.37.2
Release: llm 0.37.2 Fixes a security issue reported by Daniel de Araujo in GHSA-v9h7-jj4g-f862 and GHSA-r639-rr7r-x72w. LLM has a mechanism called extra-openai-models.yaml - now managed by the…
Read note →Anthropic's IPO roadshow video
Anthropic's IPO roadshow video Anthropic kicked off their IPO roadshow yesterday, and their roadshow video has some previously unreleased information about how their business works. The section on…
Read note →AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease
Predicting how DNA sequences and their variations impact specific human cell types and disease.
Read note →ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers
More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus. See how they use it to prepare for civilian careers.
Read note →JioStar’s chief architect on AI discovery at 500M-user scale
JioStar’s Vijay Seshadri explains AI discovery at 500M-user scale. Read his lessons on evals, guardrails, and taking AI into production.
Read note →llm-gemini 0.36
Release: llm-gemini 0.36 Gemini 4 Carbon was announced two weeks ago for "a subset of cyber defenders", but today it's available to everyone else. This is Google's best ever Gemini, priced at…
Read note →Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth
AlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in Lean to verify Signal’s core encryption.
Read note →Helping caregivers use AI in everyday life
OpenAI Academy is bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to caregivers in five U.S. cities, helping them build practical AI skills for everyday life.
Read note →Opening the datasets behind our AI weather models
Foundational precipitation and geostationary satellite datasets to observe the planet clearly.
Read note →Introducing Businesses in ChatGPT
Manage your business information, get insights about how your business shows up, and turn interest into action in ChatGPT.
Read note →Closing the AI guidance gap in education
New ThinkYoung research and lessons from OpenAI’s EMEA education partnerships on supporting teachers, AI literacy, and independent learning.
Read note →Singapore Airlines elevates travel & work with OpenAI technology
Discover how Singapore Airlines uses OpenAI models and API to enhance customer support, travel discovery, and employee productivity, doubling CSAT for its Kris chatbot.
Read note →Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember
Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most…
Read note →Work at the Frontier: AI’s effect on freelance work
New research from OpenAI and Upwork finds shifting demand for freelance work, new skill combinations, and larger budgets and more hours for AI-related projects.
Read note →Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2
Claude Fable 5.2 pays close attention to who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic’s testing on small coding tasks, the model tended to add to the existing structure when the prompt said nothing…
Read note →Yonkers Rises
Tool: Yonkers Rises I realized I didn't know where Yonkers was, so I looked it up on Google Maps and then, to help embed its location and shape in my head (and to try out Claude Fable 5.2's 3D…
Read note →Cogent and OpenAI build cyber defense factories for enterprises
Cogent combines OpenAI models with enterprise context to help automatically remediate vulnerabilities with agents.
Read note →llm-anthropic 0.31
Release: llm-anthropic 0.31 Anthropic released Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 today. Fable 5.2 is currently ranked first on Artificial Analysis. Anthropic say it "solved two open problems in the physics…
Read note →Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude
Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven't unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently beeping. The beeps were far enough apart…
Read note →Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity
Our most capable vision-language-action model enhances robot dexterity, reliability, and safety
Read note →ChatGPT Enterprise now available in AWS Marketplace
ChatGPT Enterprise is now available through AWS Marketplace, helping organizations simplify procurement through existing AWS purchasing and billing relationships.
Read note →Control Room: A central system to track and stop model workloads across our research infrastructure
Learn how OpenAI’s Control Room tracks model workloads across our research infrastructure and can rapidly stop them when safety or security concerns arise.
Read note →CodeRabbit scales agentic software development and ships 20x more
CodeRabbit uses OpenAI models to govern and trust AI-generated code and Codex to ship 20 times more software with the same engineering team.
Read note →Kuken Industries searches 70 years of drawings in minutes
Kuken Industries uses the OpenAI API to search 70 years of cooling tower drawings. Engineers can find the drawing for a repair in 4.5 minutes, down from nearly an hour.
Read note →The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford
My comment on The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford — Hacker News. OK, this comment convinced me to give that a shot. Here's a thing I made in Three.js this morning - a Nudibranch themed…
Read note →Hide your slop PR descriptions behind
Most of the changes I make to my projects these days come in the form of PRs opened for me by Claude Code or Codex. The PR is my unit of work - I use them to bundle commits together, iterating on…
Read note →parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust
Research: parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust I was out walking the dog when I got curious about how easy/difficult it would be to write a SQLite C extension that adds a parse_number()…
Read note →datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages
datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages I was looking at the Firefox network panel today when I noticed that requests to a Datasette table page were…
Read note →Terry Pratchett's Study
My comment on Terry Pratchett's Study — Hacker News. Terry Pratchett once wrote about the concept of "horizontal wealth". Vertical wealth is where you spend money on rich people stuff - yachts and…
Read note →Quoting Nilay Patel
The products aren't good enough to sell people on the costs. You cannot tell people that you have to listen to the whine of a data center in their backyard for AI overviews and some of the most…
Read note →Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems
OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.
Read note →Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science
OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science.
Read note →Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex
Cult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster, and change how work gets done.
Read note →Quoting Paul Ford
The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day. — Paul Ford, The Web Is More Than Enough Tags:…
Read note →Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates
Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.
Read note →GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents
Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.
Read note →Merge builds product and business tools with OpenAI technology
Merge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing. Its teams also use AI to plan executive dinners and prepare sales updates.
Read note →Setting a new standard for responsible AI infrastructure
OpenAI introduces its National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint to protect local resources, create jobs, and guide responsible AI infrastructure development.
Read note →Flipsnack grows product signups with conversion optimization
Flipsnack focused its ChatGPT Ads campaigns on getting people to try its product, growing registrations while lowering the cost per signup.
Read note →Franklin Templeton uses OpenAI to support investment research
Starting with equity research, Franklin Templeton is developing AI workflows to help portfolio managers compare research views and examine investment risks.
Read note →datasette-llm 0.1a10
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a10 Fixes a bug that affected my agent.datasette.io demo site, where the set of available LLM models was not correctly restricted to just those in the configuration. …
Read note →OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
Read note →A thousand fewer paths to root
OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.
Read note →Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.
Read note →datasette-apps 0.3a0
Release: datasette-apps 0.3a0 Datasette Apps adds support for hosting and editing custom HTML applications inside of Datasette. These can be created by hand, but it's easier to create them using…
Read note →Introducing Images 2.6
Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
Read note →DevRev delivers autonomous self-service with GPT-6.1 Sol
DevRev uses GPT-6.1 Sol to power Computer and Operator, balancing reasoning, speed, and cost for enterprise service.
Read note →datasette-agent 0.5a0
Release: datasette-agent 0.5a0 This is a significant release of Datasette Agent. The most notable new feature is called the panel - it lets the agent chat open and then sit next to pages from…
Read note →llm 0.37.1
Release: llm 0.37.1 A bugfix release for LLM, with contributions from Steven Huang, Tao An, Arjan Mossel, and XQ. Tags: llm
Read note →Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
Read note →AI is destroying my CS degree
My comment on AI is destroying my CS degree — Hacker News. I don't envy educators right now. AI clearly means you need to change how you teach and evaluate students. We are only a few years in…
Read note →Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the…
Read note →Accelerating engineering for the physical world
Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.
Read note →How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAI
Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.
Read note →Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AI
Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.
Read note →I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube
I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible background noise of planes…
Read note →October sponsors-only newsletter
I sent out the October edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: The October inflection point for vibe…
Read note →OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
Jill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.
Read note →llm 0.37
Release: llm 0.37 There's a lot of stuff in this new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library, representing around two months of accumulated features and fixes. I added gpt-6.1-sol and…
Read note →Rewarding defenders with bigger bug bounties
OpenAI is raising Security Bug Bounty rewards and introducing report quality, loyalty, and priority campaign bonuses for independent security researchers.
Read note →Scaling Git at OpenAI
How OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.
Read note →Introducing the Grid Protectors Program
OpenAI’s Grid Protectors Program will work with utilities to help future compute campuses support grid reliability and protect consumer electricity costs.
Read note →Speeding up planning decisions with AI
Google DeepMind and UK government work together to reduce planning assessment times
Read note →Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.
Read note →Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types
A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.
Read note →Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity
Accelerating the search for novel antimicrobial peptides using Google Antigravity for Science.
Read note →Google DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection
Learn how Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore uses lightweight on-device Gemma models to intercept conversational scams in private chats with zero cloud data egress.
Read note →Introducing SynthID Bio
Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.
Read note →Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.
Read note →AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.
Read note →Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Read note →Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
Read note →From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.
Read note →Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
Read note →Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic…
Read note →Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
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