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Anthropic really did just hand this one to OpenAI on a plate I don't know what they are doing over there, but Codex will continue to be available both in the FREE and PLUS ($20) plans. We have the com

Apparently my blog is mostly about token pricing now, here are some notes on the big changes GitHub Copilot just announced, including pausing new signups entirely https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22

Apparently the bug was rolling out the new pricing grid worldwide when it should only have been seen by the 2% of people in the A/B test https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046783926920978681 Getting

As far as I can tell this tweet buried in a thread is currently the ONLY official confirmation that this potential pricing change won't affect existing Pro subscribers When we do land on something, if

Auto-Protect is rolling out today on an opt-in basis for paying customers. Over time, our vision is for this kind of maintenance to become almost fully automated by AI. To enable Auto-Protect across y

Pinecone hosted a live broadcast event on X (formerly Twitter) inviting developers to build applications using their vector database platform. The stream likely covered Pinecone's capabilities, use ca

Correction: OpenAI are NOT deprecating that model, the announcement was a mistake Thank you for flagging this, Jeff. This was a mistake: we are not deprecating text-embedding-3-small. We’re looking in

File upsert is now live in Pinecone Assistant. Create or replace files by a custom ID you define — no UUID tracking. Upload, upsert, and delete return a pollable operation object. List and describe fi

Had a great conversation with @swyx on @latentspacepod about what we're building at @Shopify. SimGym, Tangent, our approach to PR review at 30% month-on-month merge growth and why larger models are ch

Hard to unsee the future from demos like this Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see. @eddiejiao

https://x.com/tanayj/status/2046733145446502805?s=46 My read on the structure of this deal: 1. xAI is leveraging Cursor's data / traces to help train a better coding model (both Grok base model and po

Introducing Race to Revenue. Follow real founders around the world for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build and launch products live on camera. But whose app will prove itself with cold, hard rev

jesus h christ that seed round https://x.com/msg/status/2046735581661872575?s=20 @SpaceX @cursor_ai Cursor funding rounds 📈 • Seed (Oct ’23): 8M • A (Aug ’24): 60M @ ~400M • B (Jan ’25): 105M @ 2.6B •

Keeping your apps secure has always required constant oversight from you. Replit Auto-Protect now keeps watch over your apps 24x7. We'll monitor threats, proactively prepare fixes and notify you to ap

LS was the first podcast cursor ever did listen back to baby @amanrsanger when they were 5 people and pre-PMF “Cursor is the best product I've used in a while” - @MacCaw “It's so elegant and easy.” -

Cursor can be mentioned in Slack threads to initiate automated tasks, with real-time streaming updates of task progress visible within the conversation. The integration leverages thread context and br

Perplexity's reward design system prioritizes correctness as a foundational requirement, then evaluates user preference and efficiency only when answers meet correctness standards. This hierarchical a

Props to @augmentcode for being one of the first to ship Kimi K2.6 to their users. Open models are now the frontier. Support for Kimi K2.6 is now here in Augment Code! We teamed up with @Kimi_Moonshot

Replit announced Auto-Protect, a security feature designed to automatically safeguard user code and projects on their platform. The feature likely includes automated threat detection, code scanning, o

Fireworks AI announced the appointment of George Hu as President of the company. The announcement came from Fireworks AI's leadership, noting that Hu and the company's founder met approximately a year

🆕 Shopify's AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, unlimited tokens, Tangle, Tangent, & SimGym https://www.latent.space/p/shopify @Shopify CTO @MParakhin explains why near-universal AI adoption is chan

Shopify's CTO Mikhail Parakhin discusses the company's transition into an AI-centric phase, highlighting anticipated AI usage explosion in 2026, the adoption of unlimited Claude Opus-4.6 token budgets

Team @Shopify brought some fire to this one; add this to the growing list of “WTF happened in Dec 2025” charts (this plots token usage across all the technical staff of shopify - the whole time they h

Thank you for flagging this, Jeff. This was a mistake: we are not deprecating text-embedding-3-small. We’re looking into where this came from now, and we’ll also email users to clarify. Sorry for the

That's from this ChatGPT conversation - https://chatgpt.com/share/69e90ba5-7760-83e8-9e09-f06e25a90930 - my prompt was 'Do a where's Waldo style image but it's where is the raccoon holding a ham radio

This post highlights the Qwen 3.6-27B language model's image generation capabilities, noting that despite its relatively compact 16.8GB file size, it produces high-quality creative outputs like the ex

This is a really big deal - it's easy to run into nasty bills with Cloud Run if your site attracts aggressive scrapers, spending caps make it a whole lot safer to run small projects on Anouncing Spend

This is why I won't use proprietary hosted embedding models myself - I am more than happy to pay for a hosted solution (cheaper, faster and more convenient than self-hosting) but I want an open weight

This pipeline is why the same base model produces more accurate, better-cited, and more efficient answers inside Perplexity than out of the box. Read our research: https://research.perplexity.ai/artic

Kimi K2.6 is now available for use on Together AI's cloud platform, which offers AI model deployment and inference services. This announcement indicates the model has been added to Together AI's roste

This post documents a method for extracting the text prompt used by an image generation AI by examining network traffic in a web browser's developer tools. Simon Willison demonstrates that prompts can

Replit enables dramatically accelerated software development cycles, reducing deployment timelines from 9 months to 3 days through its cloud-based development platform. The platform streamlines the bu

Additional security bulletin updates include: • Clarification that account and project deletion do not eliminate environment variable risk • Guidance on multi-factor authentication • Product updates t

This article examines the role of artificial intelligence in advancing cybersecurity practices and argues for the importance of transparency and open approaches in AI-driven security solutions. It lik

do not miss. one of the INSANE gets courtesy of @osanseviero and the @GoogleDeepMind london avengers. if you always felt out of the loop on the SOTA on Imagegen, today or otherwise, this is the best 4

Engram is Weaviate's memory system that enables AI applications to store and retrieve contextual information across interactions, improving long-term context understanding and personalization. The sys

Vercel announced the availability of GPT Image 2 on its AI Gateway, enabling developers to integrate OpenAI's image generation capabilities through Vercel's unified API platform. This integration allo

How we secure every layer of the vibe coding stack- a note from our CTO 👇 Vibe coding is changing how software gets built. But as AI agents write more of our code, the question security teams are aski

Simon Willison expresses hope that OpenAI will commit to long-term maintenance of an AI tool, citing concerns about his own tool potentially becoming stale or discontinued. The post reflects broader u

In collaboration with @github, @Microsoft, @npmjs, and @SocketSecurity, our security team has confirmed that no npm packages published by Vercel have been compromised. There is no evidence of tamperin

This live broadcast on Replit's X account demonstrates how to work with databases within the Replit development environment, covering practical techniques for database integration and management. The

OK, here's a resolution - I managed to get it to think using these settings: 'thinking': { 'type': 'adaptive', 'display': 'summarized' }, 'output_config': { 'effort': 'max' } Without 'display': 'summa

OpenAI's new Euphony tool works almost exactly the same way as my Codex transcript viewer https://tools.simonwillison.net/codex-timeline?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.githubusercontent.com%2Fsimonw%2Fa9eb599

Replit announced a feature enabling users to publish applications with a single click, streamlining the deployment process from development to production. This capability reduces friction in the app p

QIMMA (قِمّة) is a quality-focused leaderboard for evaluating Arabic Large Language Models, developed by TIIUAE. The leaderboard benchmarks Arabic LLMs across various performance metrics and tasks to

AI agents are already too human. Not in the romantic sense, not because they love or fear or dream, but in the more banal and frustrating one. The current implementations keep showing their human orig