AI & emerging technology

llm-anthropic 0.27

Simon Willison Aug 25, 2026

Release: llm-anthropic 0.27 This release of the Anthropic plugin for LLM mainly provides compatibility with the recentl…

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Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

TechCrunch — AI Aug 25, 2026

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space …

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With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents

NVIDIA Blog Aug 25, 2026

The next era of AI inference won’t be defined by a single breakthrough chip, network or system. It’ll be defined by how…

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Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents

NVIDIA Blog Aug 25, 2026

According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why?  Consider w…

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OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

TechCrunch — AI Aug 25, 2026

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.

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Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

TechCrunch — AI Aug 24, 2026

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the …

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Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro

OpenAI Aug 24, 2026

GPT‑5.6 is now available in Kiro, helping developers plan, build, review, and test software with better price-performan…

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Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

MIT Technology Review — AI Aug 24, 2026

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has…

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Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

Simon Willison Aug 24, 2026

Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive A few interesting numbers in this FT story…

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Quoting Drew Breunig

Simon Willison Aug 24, 2026

Prior to Fable, it felt silly to waste too much time improving your coding harness or context strategies. A new model w…

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Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

TechCrunch — AI Aug 23, 2026

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific p…

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llm 0.33

Simon Willison Aug 23, 2026

Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP clie…

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OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

TechCrunch — AI Aug 23, 2026

OpenAI's global affairs team post also referenced “recent incidents” that “underscore both the need for these protectio…

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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

TechCrunch — AI Aug 22, 2026

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechC…

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Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

TechCrunch — AI Aug 22, 2026

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI…

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llm 0.32.1

Simon Willison Aug 22, 2026

Release: llm 0.32.1 Fresh installs of LLM stopped working the other day because the OpenAI Python library dropped its u…

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llm-openrouter 0.7

Simon Willison Aug 22, 2026

Release: llm-openrouter 0.7 Now that this plugin is compatible with LLM 0.32 it can display the reasoning traces for LL…

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Quoting Matt Webb

Simon Willison Aug 22, 2026

After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself. So I sat down with ChatGPT and I didn’…

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