AWS Strands Agents team introduced Strands Harness, an open-source, general-purpose agent harness that bridges the gap between prototype and production. Licensed under Apache 2.0 with Python and TypeS…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
llm-keys-ui v0.1 is a Simon Willison plugin offering a web UI for storing API keys on remote machines, so coding agents like Codex can retrieve them via llm keys get without secrets appearing in chat …
Version 0.2.2 of the datasette-explain plugin adds support for displaying SQLite explain plans on read-only stored-query pages in Datasette. The update was prompted by Simon Willison upgrading his pub…
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…
This article reviews ChatGPT Work running on GPT-5.6, arguing that with four strong AI models launching within weeks, product experience matters more than raw model intelligence. It covers the Sol, Te…
