News

  1. First Impressions with GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code (hamy.xyz)
  2. Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA (fireworks.ai)
  3. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  4. "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok (www.tryai.dev)
  5. A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  6. OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation (openai.com)
  7. 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling (www.techradar.com)
  8. Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude (apnews.com)
  9. Advertise in ChatGPT (ads.openai.com)
  10. FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers (freeink.org)
  11. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  12. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  13. Apple Private Cloud Compute SoC 3 audit reports (support.apple.com)
  14. Laguna S 2.1 (poolside.ai)
  15. Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting (runtimewire.com)
  16. Map of the world's great castles and fortresses (thecastlemap.com)
  17. Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa (e360.yale.edu)
  18. Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
  19. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  20. Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  21. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  22. PCjs Machines (www.pcjs.org)
  23. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  24. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  25. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  26. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  27. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  28. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  29. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  30. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  31. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  32. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  33. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  34. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  35. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  36. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/challenges-abound-new-prime-minister-nature-has-solutions" hreflang="en">Challenges abound for the new Prime Minister – but nature has the solutions</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  37. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  38. My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault (rootkitlabs.com)
  39. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  40. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  41. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  42. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  43. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  44. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  45. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  46. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  47. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  48. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  49. Canarat rebuild / repair finished (slinkp.com)
  50. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  51. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  52. What I Learned From Getting Knocked Down (cranberrymuffin.io)
  53. The Birth of Prolog (1996) (dl.acm.org)
  54. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  55. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  56. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  57. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. Quoting Kimi K3 (simonwillison.net)
  59. Show HN: Justif – Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web (justif.lyall.co)
  60. LLM cliché highlighter (simonwillison.net)
  61. Spot birds not golf (simonwillison.net)
  62. Firefox in WebAssembly (simonwillison.net)
  63. Against "Stochastic Terrorism" (www.astralcodexten.com)
  64. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
  65. Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
  66. Quoting Thibault Sottiaux (simonwillison.net)
  67. Inkling: Our open-weights model (simonwillison.net)
  68. Quoting Linus Torvalds (simonwillison.net)
  69. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 1 (Food) (gochugarugirl.com)
  70. Six Slightly Skew Boogeymen (www.astralcodexten.com)
  71. Metrics, Life, and Money (blog.veitheller.de)
  72. xai-org/grok-build, now open source (simonwillison.net)
  73. Basil! (gochugarugirl.com)
  74. Keeping Mergers Under the Radar (www.bloomberg.com)
  75. How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (simonwillison.net)
  76. AI Chip Regulation Is Not A Dystopian Surveillance State (www.astralcodexten.com)