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Just had to create an 'accidental-cyberattacks' tag on my blog We're up to four now: the original OpenAI+Hugging Face one, Anthropic's me-too attacks, then two new ones from the UK AI Safety Institute

Big new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library for talking to hundreds of different LLMs - reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses support, server-side tools, smarter logging and a whole lot more ht

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

The tweet is a question from user Simon Willison (posted on 6 Aug 2026) asking which OpenAI API model corresponds to the ChatGPT “GPT‑5.6 Instant” version. No answer or clarification is included in th

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

'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

Neat example here of the agents communicating purely through file names, including adding base64-encoded attachments and using 'zz' prefixes to ensure their new message sorts to the bottom of the list

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

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

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

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

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-

OK, GPT-5.6 Luna is a bit of a beast. Given the 80% price drop today I decided to try it in Datasette Agent, and it's furiously quick and generates all the SQL, HTML and JavaScript (for Datasette Apps

Simon Willison switched his Datasette Agent instance from Gemini 3.1 Flash‑Lite to GPT‑5.6 “Luna” after a recent 80% price drop. He reports the new model is significantly faster and automatically gene

The tweet is a question from user Simon Willison (posted on 6 Aug 2026) asking which OpenAI API model corresponds to the ChatGPT “GPT‑5.6 Instant” version. No answer or clarification is included in th

Claude Haiku is my current least favorite model - it hallucinates wildly, and is out-performed now by other similarly priced models like GPT-5.6-Luna Even worse: it seems to still be used by the Claud

Simon Willison tested Z.ai's GLM-5.1 using his standard 'pelican on a bicycle' SVG benchmark, and the model stood out by spontaneously generating a full HTML page with both the SVG and a separate ...

The feature I most want from AI labs right now is documentation on which underlying search engines they use when their chat tools run a search OpenAI and Anthropic and Meta AI all have search and I ha

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

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!

Simon Willison posted a blog entry reflecting on a notable or surprising development in technology or software, capturing a moment he considered worth documenting for his audience. The post's title 'w

One of the things the pelican benchmark is still useful for is visually representing (to a tiny extent) the improvements in a single model family Here's Meta AI's Spark (8th April), Spark 1.1 (9th Jul

Under-reported details of the xAI/Anthropic Colossus data center deal: Anthropic get Colossus 1 but xAI keep using the larger Colossus 2, Colossus 1 has a REALLY bad environmental record, and xAI just

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!

More of my notes on DeepSeek V4 - the really big news is the pricing: both DeepSeek-V4-Flash and DeepSeek-V4-Pro are the cheapest models in their categories while benchmarking close to the frontier mo

This post references a Hugging Face Models page filtered to show quantized versions of the DeepSeek-V4-Flash model, a lightweight variant of DeepSeek's V4 language model. The page displays community-q

Simon Willison requested that Hugging Face add a repository size sorting option to help users find and filter models by storage requirements, specifically mentioning interest in locating DeepSeek quan

... and there's me thinking that sending it out at 9pm Pacific Time on a Thursday evening was safe, surely there wouldn't be any news this evening that I might want to include in there... https://x.co

Simon Willison inquires about running DeepSeek-V4-Flash on Mac hardware, specifically asking about feasibility across different RAM configurations from 512GB down to smaller amounts. This reflects dis