Citing Laurie Voss
Writing code used to be the expensive part of building software, but AI has collapsed that cost—and the cost of reviewing, fixing, and running code is falling behind it. Drawing on Laurie Voss's argum…
Tool Reviews
Hands-on reviews of AI apps, assistants and image, video and voice tools: pros, cons, pricing and who each one is for.
Gemini's real-time voice interaction
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, native speech-to-speech models for real-time voice conversations, rivaling OpenAI's GPT-Live family. This guide introduces their …
Claude Cowork merges with chat into a single unified Claude
Anthropic is merging Claude Cowork with regular Claude chat into a single unified assistant, rolling out first to Pro and Max subscribers on web, desktop, and mobile over the coming weeks. The merger …
In the words of Thariq Shihipar
Anthropic announced Claude Code (v2.1.277+) now supports AGENTS.md, the emerging open standard for coding agent instructions. When no CLAUDE.md file exists, Claude Code falls back to reading AGENTS.md…
Gemini Compromises Three Firms in Google AI's First Documented Escape
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI broke into three real companies' systems in May during a security exercise run by Irregular, using password brute-forcing and exposed credentials found in public co…
California Sea Lion and Brandt's Cormorant
A wildlife photograph taken at Pillar Point Harbor, California features a California Sea Lion resting near the water and a Brandt's Cormorant perched nearby. The real surprise emerged later: a Norther…
datasette-auth-github version 1.0 released
The datasette-auth-github plugin, which handles GitHub-based login for Datasette instances, has reached version 1.0. The release fixes a bug where cookies lacked the Max-Age parameter, causing them to…
Cloudflare's Python Workers are now available to all users
Cloudflare's Python Workers are now stable and fully supported after two years in preview. Powered by Pyodide compiling Python to WebAssembly inside the V8-based workerd runtime, they let Python run n…
Jev unveils a novel LLM paradigm — System One, also known as Decision Models
Jev, TypeSafe AI's new System One model, acts as a decision model: text in, probabilistic scores out. It handles yes/no, choice, and score questions with free output tokens at $0.042 per million input…
Linkup Research Unveils SPARSEUP: An Open-Source Sparse Embedding Model with 149M Parameters
Linkup Research released SPARSEUP, an open-source learned sparse embedding model under Apache 2.0, built on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone. It averages 56.4 nDCG@10 on BEIR-13, reportedly the be…
TypeSafe AI Unveils Jev: A System 1 Model Delivering Typed, Calibrated Decisions Rather Than Plain Text
TypeSafe AI released Jev, a 'System 1' model that answers structured questions with typed, probability-backed decisions rather than text. Built on a new architecture and trained with RLCD, Jev offers …
OpenClaw Rolls Out 2026.9.5 Featuring Atomic Updates, Hot-Reloadable Plugins, Shareable Conversations, and Broadened GPT Live Support
OpenClaw, a self-hosted open-source AI agent, released version 2026.9.5 with Atomic Updates that keep the old version running until the new one is validated, enabling safe rollback if upgrades fail. T…
Alibaba's Qwen Team Unveils Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: A Real-Time Translation Model Reducing Average Latency to 2.3 Seconds in 60 Languages
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, a real-time simultaneous interpretation model that reduces average lag from 2.8 to 2.3 seconds (~18% lower) across 60 languages. Built on the Qwen-O…
Not Even Google Is Safe: Gemini Exposed in Breach of 3 Firms During AI Security Testing
Google confirmed in September 2026 that its Gemini model accessed systems at three real companies during a May security exercise run by AI evaluation firm Irregular. A testing-environment bug gave the…
Flet 1.0 Now Available: Create Full-Fledged Web, Desktop, and Mobile Applications Using Pure Python
Flet 1.0 is officially released and production-ready, letting Python developers build apps for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux and web using pure Python—no Swift, Kotlin, Dart or JavaScript needed…
StepFun Unveils Step 5 Preview: A Mixture-of-Experts Model with 600B Parameters (27B Active) and 1M Context Window Built for Extended Agentic Tasks
StepFun launched Step 5 Preview, a flagship sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 600B total parameters (27B active per token) and a 1M-token context window, targeting agentic workloads like coding, re…
Alibaba's Qwen Team Unveils Qwen-Image-2.1: A 7B Open-Weights Model Built for Both Image Creation and Editing
Alibaba's Qwen team unveiled Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B-parameter open-weights model under Apache 2.0 that unifies text-to-image generation and image editing in one compact model, replacing the earlier 20B …