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  • 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 to my laptop while I cooked dinner.

    Simon Willison6 min read
  • 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 reasonable excuse to finally ship a 1.0.

    Simon Willison2 min read
  • ttok 0.4

    Release: ttok 0.4 ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI, and added a --list-models command to list available models.

    Simon Willison1 min read
  • Presentation: Multi-Agent Patterns from Spotify’s AI Powered Advertising Platform

    Pratik Rasam discusses how Spotify Ads Manager runs production-grade multi-agent systems at scale using Google ADK Java. He shares key architectural patterns, domain ownership models, deterministic guardrails, and tracing-based evaluation strategies, detailing hard-learned lessons on drawing agent…

    InfoQ - AI/ML/Data32 min read
  • Claude Haiku 5.5

    As previously promised, here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5. The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age.

    Simon Willison4 min read
  • Secret protection must scale with software

    Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it. The post Secret protection must scale with software appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

    GitHub Blog AI7 min read
  • Quoting Jake Boggan

    I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years of my life, on and off as I worked in many different fields.

    Simon Willison1 min read
  • OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

    OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking: The Wikimedia Foundation conducted its own investigation to see whether Wikimedia…

    Simon Willison2 min read
  • Quoting Victoria Kim

    Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr. Kwon [chief strategy officer at OpenAI] said.

    Simon Willison1 min read
  • EmbeddingGemma 2

    My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News.I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a closed, proprietary, hosted-only model.

    Simon Willison2 min read
  • Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk

    Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own cluster of 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs. The preview is available via their API.

    Simon Willison2 min read
  • Why GPT Ditched Half the Transformer

    How OpenAI stripped down the original encoder-decoder architecture — and why removing half of it made language models better, not worse.Continue reading on Towards AI »

    Towards AI1 min read
  • Scrimshaw Jukebox

    Tool: Scrimshaw Jukebox I wanted to see if Claude Opus 5.5 could compose music, so I tried this: I want you to write some computer game music for me. First design simple text based format for the music and build an artifact that can play it out loud - include some example tracks in that artifact I…

    Simon Willison2 min read
  • Small Models Were the Wrong Question for Enterprise AI

    I started out betting on small language models. The research pushed me toward a broader idea: move well-understood work to the cheapest specialized mechanism that can reliably handle it.

    Towards AI13 min read
  • Quoting Felix Rieseberg

    The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability, safety, and security reasons - mapping in just the data you explicitly added to your session.

    Simon Willison2 min read

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