How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch
Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion…
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Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function
Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.
Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers
Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new…
China's Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at Bytedance
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times. That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3,…
Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used AI to design new viruses that killed bacteria in the lab
A research team in California has used artificial intelligence to design working viruses that kill bacteria, in what they describe as the "first generative design of…
OpenAI's hockey-puck-sized smart speaker with moving parts is set to ship in 2027
OpenAI's planned smart speaker is taking shape. The company's first hardware device will be donut-shaped, roughly the size of a hockey puck, and priced above $300,…
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case
Meta's total fine has raked up to $942 million in this case
Alibaba tests new business model for Qwen open-source AI
Alibaba plans to introduce revenue-sharing terms for some commercial users of its next Qwen open-weight AI model, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the company’s…
Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel unite on a shared standard for AI agent plugins
Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel have jointly created Agent Plugins, an open standard that defines a single package format for AI agent extensions. Version 1.0.0…
Microsoft Open Sources code-testing-generator: a Polyglot Unit-Test Agent That Hits 92.1% Task Completion Versus 78.9% for Stock Copilot
Microsoft has open sourced code-testing-generator, a polyglot unit-test agent shipping in the MIT-licensed dotnet/skills repository. It reads a repository before writing anything — detecting the language,…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-2.6B: An On-Device Agentic Model With 128K Context, Tool Calling, And Open Weights
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, an agentic model that plans, calls tools, and completes multi-step tasks entirely on-device. The 2.69B parameter model pairs 22 double-gated short convolution…
datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13
Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13 Upgraded for compatibility with `sqlite-utils 4. Tags: datasette
OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300-$400
Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.
Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf: An Agent-First Web Browser That Runs Entirely in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare has released Kitesurf, a stateless web browser built specifically for AI agents that runs entirely in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers, with no Chromium underneath.…
OpenAI improves GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT and restricts free users to its weakest model
OpenAI has updated GPT-5.6 Sol with more focused responses and a reasoning slider that lets users adjust how deeply the model thinks. Free users will get…
datasette 1.0a38
Release: datasette 1.0a38 This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables in the…
datasette 0.65.3
Release: datasette 0.65.3 Back-ported the SQL Injection security fix from 1.0a38. Tags: datasette
Deepmind's talent drain likely comes down to chip shortages, a conflict of interest, and Google's bureaucracy
Ex-Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis has reportedly stepped back from day-to-day operations for about a year, as he sees himself more as a scientist than a…
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never…
Microsoft's AI revenue reportedly depends on OpenAI for 70 percent
Microsoft generated $24.1 billion in AI revenue through OpenAI in the fiscal year ending in June. That's about 70 percent of its total AI business, according…
ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.
Adaptive Experimentation with Meta’s Ax: A Practical Coding Guide
In this tutorial, we explore adaptive experimentation using Meta’s Ax with the modern Client API. We work through a complete workflow where we tune a RandomForest…
Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company
Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naive claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.
Claude Code is the fastest agent framework but costs nearly three times more than the cheapest rival
Composio tested Deepseek V4 Flash across four agent frameworks on 30 real-world tasks. Success rates were mostly similar, but costs varied by nearly 3x: OpenCode came…