Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on reasoning tasks, but whether this reflects faithful logical inference or heuristic approximation remains unclear. We study this question in legal entailment by comparing three para…
From the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobot You have a robot, a folder of demonstration data on the Hugging Face Hub, and a new task you want it to learn. Today that takes five separate tools: one to record…
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns (importai.substack.com)
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns Where are your agents right now? Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.
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GlmRecent developments in the AI space highlight significant advancements from Chinese companies, particularly Zai's upgrade of GLM-5.1, which has shown substantial improvements. Meanwhile, there are concerns about a widespread intelligence drop across various models and discussions around the potential openness of leading AI projects like GLM 5.1.
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Sonnet 4.6Several updates and comparisons revolved around Sonnet 4.6, including its performance in dashboard analytics alongside Opus 4.8, and its role in processing critical requirements for a benchmark test with Gemma 4.31B QAT.
Wanted to share an architecture pattern that worked well for a multi-agent system I built and just open-sourced. The setup: a small business marketing assistant (posts, ads, strategy, photo tagging) running through Telegram, using Claude a…
datasette-agent 0.3a0 (simonwillison.net)
15th June 2026 - New tool, execute_write_sql , which requests user approval and then writes to a database - taking user permissions into account. #27 I added a mechanism for asking user approval in datasette agent 0.2a0.
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- Show HN: Datasette Agent (simonwillison.net via hn)
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Agentic Resource Discovery: Let agents search (huggingface.co)
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Anthropic MythosAnthropic's new update, Claude Mythos, has garnered attention from top AI security researchers like Carlini, who found numerous bugs. The update is noted for its speed and effectiveness, with Anthropic identifying a significant security flaw in FFmpeg and quickly submitting patches.
- 2h im working on it guys we are saved ggs
- 5h "Mythos" at Home, and It's Called Aisle
- 13h Anthropic's Mythos model got pulled after 3 days by export controls. The leaked prompt reveals how it actually worked — and a Claude Code bundle.
- 21h Fable and Mythos: Model Welfare
- 1d Read the Lutnick Letter That Led Anthropic to Disable Mythos
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DeepSeek 4DeepSeek-V4-Pro is a 1.6T parameter Mixture-of-Experts model supporting one million-token context length, offering significant efficiency improvements over its predecessor. Notably, community feedback highlights the emergence of DeepSeek V4 Pro among low-cost Chinese language models, with some users reporting performance parity and others questioning its competitive positioning despite development delays.
- 6h Using Claude Opus as planner + DeepSeek as worker in Claude Code — anyone solved the single-session routing problem?
- 22h Native Coding Agent Optimized for Local LLM and DeepSeek v4 with Vector Memory
- 1d DeepSeek V4 Pro at 5% the cost of Claude – what it takes to close the gap
- 2d Kimi 2.7 vs. DeepSeek Coder
- 2d DeepSeek-V4 Can't Read Images? I Made It Read
When large language models (LLMs) fail to generalize or make haphazard errors in reasoning, it is often taken as evidence that LLMs are not truly reasoning, but rather performing a kind of pattern matching. The implication is that people's…
OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context (simonwillison.net)
12th June 2026 - Link Blog OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context. I built the first version of this tool in December 2024 to try out the then-new OpenAI WebRTC API for interacting with their realtime audio models.
SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion (arstechnica.com)
SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.
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SecurityOpenAI has released GPT-5.4-Cyber for testing as part of its Trusted Access for Cyber Defense program, aiming to compete with Anthropic's Claude Mythos in the cybersecurity domain. Meanwhile, concerns are rising over the potential risks associated with advanced AI models like Mythos, prompting calls for improved defenses before wider releases.
- 4h Red-teaming agents with the GOAT attack strategy
- 10h The State of Fable, the Jailbreak Problem, SpaceX Acquires Cursor
- 16h A Red-Team Study of Anthropic Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 Models
- 20h Claude Opus caught malware hidden in my repo, then reverse engineered the whole thing
- 22h 4 in 10 AI agents headed for demotion or the rubbish bin (Gartner)
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MistralMistral, a French AI company, is set to release a medium-sized model with 128 billion parameters and is planning to launch Workflows in public preview. The company, founded by Arthur Mensch, continues to grow its AI empire despite not being based in the United States.
- 7h Show HN: AptSelect – A local LLM client for parallel testing and evaluation
- 11h Which AI agent spent the money on your OpenAI/Anthropic bill
- 13h Mistral AI to produce a larger family of models
- 1d Mistral Repeats State-Sponsored Disinformation Half the Time When Prompted
- 1d France's Mistral AI pursuing Palantir-style partnership with Kyiv
Show HN: Vessel Browser – Open-Source AI-Native Browser with Skills (github.com via hn)
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Agent systems are advancing quickly across domains, but their evaluation remains fragmented. Most benchmarks rely on fixed, LLM-centric harnesses that require heavy integration, create test-production mismatch, and limit fair comparison ac…
11th June 2026 - Link Blog Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude (via) Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired: “We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visibl…
- Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have 'Sabotaged' Researchers Using Claude (www.wired.com via hn)
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Opus 4.8Claude AI has released Opus 4.8, an upgrade to their Opus class of models available in version 2.1.154 of their software on March 16, 2023, which includes enhanced coding and professional task capabilities along with improved judgment and honesty. Users are reporting usage resets following the update.
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Opus 4.7Opus 4.7 has gained more frequent use among certain users, such as creative professionals and therapists, who prefer it over newer versions like 4.8 or older ones like 4.6. Some users report that Opus 4.7 handles context documents better than later versions.
Screen Studio by Adam Pietrasiak is gorgeous and I love it - but, its not agent native — so I built screenstudio-alt with Claude Code (free, MIT). Say "make the demo," it records, it picks the zooms, fast forwards on dead time, keeps track…
Investing in multi-agent AI safety research (deepmind.google)
The gravity around a black hole is so extreme that nothing, not even light, can escape once it gets close enough. Astrophysicists like Chi-kwan Chan study black holes with computer simulations and observations.
Generative AI has made fluent prose cheap to produce, breaking the old promise to readers that good writing meant real thinking. How have readers responded, and what can this tell us about changing anti-AI attitudes?
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive 11th June 2026 After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them…