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Tool: GitHub Repo Size GitHub doesn't tell you the repo size in the UI, but it's available in the CORS-friendly API. Paste a repo into this tool to see the size, for example for simonw/datasette (8.1M

The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same AI adoption footprint as John Deere, the tractor company. Most of the industry has the same internal adoption curve: 20% agentic power use

Simon Willison discusses the perception that LLMs and coding agents are primarily useful for greenfield development (starting new projects from scratch) rather than for maintaining and modifying large

Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices I just encountered this feature via a 'try this out now' prompt in a Google Meet meeting. It kind-of worked! This is Google's imp

Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staf

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would ha

shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today's shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to recor

xai-org/grok-build, now open source xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent that running the command in a directory could upload that entire directory to

The conclusions here feel wrong to me. The two lessons I see are: 1. Don't run agents anywhere they might be able to access production environment credentials - it's on you to know which credentials t

These pelicans are kind of angry looking! Left is deepseek-v4-flash, right is deepseek-v4-pro - both generated using OpenRouter via my LLM tool 🚀 DeepSeek-V4 Preview is officially live & open-sourced!

Microsoft's MIT licensed VibeVoice speech-to-text model (think Whisper with speaker diarization) is really good - my notes on running the 5.71GB 4bit MLX conversion on an M5 MacBook, using about 60GB

Important to note: that 3x increase for images is entirely due to Opus 4.7 being able to handle higher resolutions. I tried that again with a 682x318 pixel image and it took 314 tokens with Opus 4.7 a

'I am envisioning a harmonious interplay of form and space, where each element finds its rightful place within the visual narrative. The pelican emerges as a central figure, its wings poised in dynami

OpenAI has been using multiple informal names internally and externally for its new image generation model, including 'ChatGPT Images 2.0,' 'Image gen 2,' and 'gpt-image-2.' The post highlights incons

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

Five months in, I think I've decided that I don't want to vibecode — I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that the

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

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

The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...] Maybe the idealized form

Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing It happened again. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running

Our Black Hat talk on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is now live on youtube. This is a watershed moment for the industry. I encourage all defenders to watch, consider how attack dynamics will immine

Thanks to the video from the Black Hat security conference of OpenAI's presentation about 'The Hugging Face Incident' we now have a detailed timeline of what happened from OpenAI's perspective - I wro

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about 'the Hugging Face Incident' (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information

'Felony humble-bragging' is a great line At final Black Hat keynote (called a locknote, ha ha) panelists say they are surprised at how the OpenAI - Hugging Face incident debrief, as well as other repo

My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News.I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin poi

Don't miss the bit where OpenAI first found out they were responsible for the Hugging Face attack when they reached out to HF to get one of their credentials revoked and HF told them it had already be

Muse Glimmer, the new 30B model, is available on Hugging Face right now - here's the GGUF version: https://huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B-GGUF 1/ big announcement today: we will be releas