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FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group we
Simon Willison shared an article from his blog dated September 2, 2024, discussing Facebook's relationship with CMG (likely a media or publishing organization). The post appears to examine a significa
I was VERY suspicious of this 'active listening' story when it first started circulating. Turns out it was a scam, they weren't targeting ads by listening through microphones at all FTC to require Cox
The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics David Oks provides the clearest explanation I've seen yet of why consumer products that use memory are likely to get significantly mo
We just announced the first release of Datasette Agent, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I've been working on my LLM Python library for just over three years now, and Datasette Agent repre
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a3 'View SQL query' buttons for both visible tables and collapsed SQL result tool calls. Don't display empty reasoning chunks Improved handling of truncated responses - tab
datasette-agent-charts adds charts to Datasette Agent, powered by Observable Plot. The plugin extends Datasette Agent, which provides a conversational interface for asking questions about data in Data
Here's more about Datasette Agent on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/21/datasette-agent/ - and the announcement on the new Datasette project blog too: https://datasette.io/blog/2026/datase
I released the first alpha of Datasette Agent - a conversational AI assistant for Datasette that can answer questions about data in SQLite databases, and can be extended with plugins to add extra tool
Simon Willison announced an interactive demo for an AI agent built with Datasette, available at https://agent.datasette.io/. The demo allows users to experience hands-on functionality of the Datasette
Anyone understand what Google mean by 'Gemini Spark runs on Gemini 3.5 and uses the Antigravity harness' - is 'Antigravity' a generic term they're using for their agent harnesses now or is their Claw-
Release: datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1 More color! Bar and waffle charts without a color column are shaded by magnitude with a sequential color scheme; color columns holding text values use the observa
It's hard to find much to write about Google I/O this year because I have a policy of not writing about anything that I can't try out myself, and a lot of the big announcements are 'coming soon'. I ac
How fast is 10 tokens per second really? Neat little HTML app by Mike Veerman (source code here) which simulates LLM token output speeds from 5/second to 800/second. Useful if you see a model advertis
I don't have much to say about this year's Google I/O because I prefer to write about products that have shipped, not just 'coming soon' announcements - but here are some notes on Gemini Spark and Ant
it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ult
We have the ability to use compute resources to support our proprietary AI applications (such as Grok 5, which is currently being trained at COLOSSUS II), while also providing access to select compute
datasette-llm is a plugin that integrates LLM functionality into Datasette for language model operations. Version 0.1a8 represents an alpha release of this plugin that extends Datasette's capabilities
datasette-llm-accountant is a plugin that handles allowances and estimated pricing features for Datasette LLM usage. It works with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-limits to let users configure spendin
Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key p
llm-gemini 0.32 is an alpha release of Simon Willison's LLM Python library and CLI tool that provides access to Google's Gemini models , continuing work on major architectural changes to support newer
I don't have current information about this specific entry, so I'll describe what it likely covers based on the available details. This entry documents the release or update of llm-gemini version 0.32
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash model costs approximately 3x more than Gemini 3 Flash, despite being a newer version. Google plans to integrate Gemini 3.5 Flash into many of their own products, suggesting t
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2
Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angeles River, CA, USI'm heading home from PyCon US today so I went on a last morning walk to try and spot a pelican. I saw one!
Also a great example of positive contribution to open source by wanderingmeow - you don't need to contribute code to have a positive impact, just providing detailed feedback and confirmation that some
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source repositories in res
Simon Willison shares notes and script related to OpenClaw names on his website, discussing naming conventions or identifiers associated with OpenClaw systems. The post likely covers technical details
[...] in the last 10 years I’ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology. So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it seriously
To prepare for my #PyConUS lightning talk this afternoon I decided to track down ALL of the names that @openclaw has used since November, using a script against its GitHub repo Warelay → CLAWDIS → CLA
In preparation for a lightning talk I'm giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out how many names OpenClaw has actually had since that first commit back in November. Thanks to this firs
Release: datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0 This plugin works in conjunction with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to let you configure a per-user (or global) spending limit for LLM usage inside of
First talk in our AI track at #PyConUS is coming up at 11am Today at 11:00 AM I’ll be speaking at PyCon US in Grand Ballroom A at the Long Beach Convention Center about AI-assisted contributions and t
Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1 Part of the infrastructure I use for publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iteration
Release: datasette-ip-rate-limit 0.1a0 The datasette.io site was being hammered by poorly-behaved crawlers, so I had Codex (GPT-5.5 xhigh) build a configurable rate limiting plugin to block IPs that w
Doing this is a great way to make a bonfire of your reputation A person I know (and who is? was? a good professional al) left an AI-generated comment under my LinkedIn post. Full-on AI slop. I asked:
Mitchell Hashimoto argues that programming languages have historically created vendor lock-in effects but are increasingly losing that characteristic, likely due to standardization, interoperability i
Mitchell's post here reminded me of a similar conversation I had recently about how cheap it can be to port native mobile apps to React Native using coding agents... and then port them back again late
This Mitchell Hashimoto quote about Bun migrating from Zig to Rust reminded me of a similar conversation I had at a conference last week. I was talking to someone who worked for a medium sized technol
[...] On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good f
Tool: CSP Allow-list Experiment An experiment that shows that you can load an app in a CSP-protected sandboxed iframe (see previous note) and have a custom fetch() that intercepts CSP errors and passe
“11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase. If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing. — Boris Mann Tags: ai-agents, ai, agent-definiti
Release: datasette 1.0a29 New TokenRestrictions.abbreviated(datasette) utility method for creating '_r' dictionaries. #2695 Table headers and column options are now visible even if a table contains ze
Release: llm 0.32a2 A bunch of useful stuff in this LLM alpha, but the most important detail is this one: Most reasoning-capable OpenAI models now use the /v1/responses endpoint instead of /v1/chat/co
The thing about 90% of TDMs [Technical Decision Makers] is that they're motivated primarily by NOT GETTING FIRED. These aren't people who browser Lobsters or push to GH on the weekend. These are peopl
Now, if your CEO has never heard the phrase Ralph Loop, oh man, you are less than 30 days away from your next promotion. I'm not even exaggerating. Walk into his office, close the door, and say, hey c
Wrote about today's GitLab restructuring / 'workforce reduction' announcement, and ended up digging around in version control for both the GitLab and the 37signals public employee handbooks to help il
Simon Willison shares a technique for using Large Language Models directly from the command line using a shebang (#!) syntax, allowing scripts to be executed with LLM processing without explicit comma
Learning on the Shop floor Tobias Lütke describes Shopify's internal coding agent tool, River, which operates entirely in public on their Slack: River does not respond to direct messages. She politely
My Mac had less available memory than I expected, turned out the 'claude' Claude Code processes on this machine (running in various terminal windows) were consuming ~30GB on their own! The largest one
Simon Willison discovered how to use an LLM command-line interface tool in Unix shebang lines, enabling the creation of executable scripts written in English or natural language. This technique allows
Your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance
GitLab Act 2 There's a lot going on in this announcement from GitLab about the 'workforce reduction' and 'structural and strategic decisions' they are making with respect to the agentic era. They're '
TIL: Using LLM in the shebang line of a script Kim_Bruning on Hacker News: But seriously, you can put a shebang on an english text file now (if you're sufficiently brave) [...] This inspired me to loo
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain Excellent, angry piece by Jason Koebler on how AI writing online is becoming impossible to avoid, filtering it is mentally exhausting and it's even starting to distort
One could say in the first quarter-century of my life, that while I was always fascinated by programming, I could never overcome the guilt of not really knowing whether the tool I am building right no
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that
Shopify's River agent system lives in Slack and can only be used in public so that other employees can learn from what you do with it Reminds me of how Midjourney's Discord-only launch helped people f
WebRTC is designed to degrade and drop my prompt during poor network conditions. wtf my dude WebRTC aggressively drops audio packets to keep latency low. If you’ve ever heard distorted audio on a conf
Asking for HTML explanations of things is pretty neat, I tried it just now with the obfuscated Python POC for the new http://copy.fail Linux vulnerability: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/8/unreaso