The frontier, as it ships
Every new post from 8 primary AI sources — labs, research, and the highest-signal press — pulled fresh on every build. No editor in the loop, no algorithm, just the raw pulse of the field.
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AI is not a normal technology
32 points · 62 comments on Hacker News
commit-rewriter 0.1
Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases . The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and references to issue IDs from our private repository, so they w
Open-source AI and open models reading list
80 points · 9 comments on Hacker News
Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.
shot-scraper 1.12
Release: shot-scraper 1.12 I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool. You can now take a WebP screenshot of a web page like this: shot-scraper https://simonwillison.net -o screenshot.webp --quality 80 The --quality option sets the q
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
738 points · 314 comments on Hacker News
There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
71 points · 90 comments on Hacker News
What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?
On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.
AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
70 points · 70 comments on Hacker News
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.
Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
382 points · 212 comments on Hacker News
Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data. It worked for 27 minutes and produced exactly what I'd asked for, a
California Brown Pelican
California Brown Pelican, in San Mateo County, CA, US The Pacifica Pier shut down at the start of June after a crack in the concrete walkway made access to the pier unsafe. It has since been entirely taken over by pelicans! Tags: wildlife
OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026
While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.
Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development
Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?
Quoting Paul Ford
For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work togeth
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis ( previously ) last week. This time they'
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?
Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth for a conversat
Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra
GPT‑6 Astra improves Devin’s ability to test software and show that it works, with the goal of helping engineers review less code and ship more.
Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.
3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search
Search can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.
How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules
César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fight drug-resistant infections.
Now everyone can put data to work
Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI using natural language.
Powering AI is an architecture problem
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed su
Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services
Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining built-in financial data and GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling, and client-ready materials.
Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
Get ready for the game with new football features in Search
Track live game feeds, explore detailed stats, and get custom fantasy recommendations directly in Search this season.
Recreating a 70-year love story frame by frame
Discover how filmmakers and Google DeepMind used AI to recreate a couple's unrecorded past in the short film "Love, Rendered."
IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license
What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances,
Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.
This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visited, earlier this year, there’s only one other person there, and little in t
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-
Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast t
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
The Fairwind Program is a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our cyber defense tools.
The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
Try Google Pics: Easy image creation and editing in Google Workspace
Built on our latest Nano Banana model, Google Pics — our image creation and editing tool — is now available.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
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