// news

What we're reading.

A daily reading list across 11 feeds we follow on AI, mobile, and web. Auto-refreshes a few times a day, newest first. Last updated: 2026-06-26.

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  1. [simon willison]

    Quoting OpenAI

    We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable…

  2. [hacker news]

    Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring

  3. [hacker news]

    Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

    We built a model router that plugs into coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) and intelligently sends requests to the best model to serve them.…

  4. [openai]

    Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

    OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, paired with its most advanced safety…

  5. [vercel]

    Query Web Analytics from the Vercel CLI

    You can now query Web Analytics datapoints directly through the Vercel CLI. Using the command, you can pull page views, visitors, and custom events for your…

  6. [github blog]

    Evaluating performance and efficiency of the GitHub Copilot agentic harness across models and tasks

    Explore how the GitHub Copilot agentic harness delivers strong results across multiple benchmarks and leading token efficiency, while maintaining flexibility…

  7. [simon willison]

    AI and Liability

    AI and Liability Bruce Schneier on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: AI agents are agents of the…

  8. [simon willison]

    datasette-export-database 0.3a2

    Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a2 An embarrassingly tiny release. The pyproject.toml had pinned to datasette==1.0a27 , inadvertently making this plugin…

  9. [hacker news]

    Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring

  10. [hacker news]

    Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

    Hi HN, Nick here. We’re launching OpenKnowledge ( a “what you see is what you get” markdown editor that has direct integrations with Claude, Codex, and other…

  11. [vercel]

    AI SDK 7

    AI SDK, with over 16 million weekly downloads, is the TypeScript SDK for building AI applications, features, frameworks, and agents across any model provider.…

  12. [vercel]

    Teaching agents product design at Vercel

    Coding agents can produce working UI fast, but what's harder is a different shape. They can copy your product's style, match its patterns, and try to follow…

  13. [vercel]

    AI SDK 7 is now available

    AI SDK 7 is a major release for building production agents in TypeScript. The SDK has grown from model calls and chat primitives into a broader agent platform…

  14. [vercel]

    Vercel Ship Berlin 2026 recap

    Vercel Ship Berlin 2026 opened at the Old Mint, “Alte Münze”, where coins were once hammered by hand, before automation took over. It’s also where the…

  15. [latent space]

    [AINews] It's Meta-Harness Summer

    Move over, Harness Engineering, it is time for the harness of harnesses!

  16. [openai]

    How agents are transforming work

    A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.

  17. [vercel]

    Deep Agents and OpenCode are now available in the AI SDK Harness

    The lets you run established coding-agent runtimes through one unified interface, so you can switch runtimes without changing your application code. Today…

  18. [simon willison]

    simonw/browser-compat-db

    simonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data…

  19. [vercel]

    Vercel Flags no longer requires SDK Keys for Vercel deployments

    New projects using Vercel Flags no longer need to configure SDK Keys or the environment variable when evaluating flags inside a Vercel deployment. At runtime,…

  20. [latent space]

    Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks

    In a rare double-interview, the Databricks technical leaders riff on what it will take for every company to build Agent Clouds

  21. [simon willison]

    Quoting Tom MacWright

    In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links…

  22. [android devs]

    Expanded billing choice and lower fees on Google Play

    Posted by Paul Feng, Vice President, Google Play Eng, Product, UX At Google Play, we are committed to delivering the best possible experience to users, while…

  23. [latent space]

    [AINews] Claude Tag: Multiplayer, Proactive, Persistent Agents in Slack

    Claude finally gets a Slackbot upgrade

  24. [openai]

    OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip

    OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.

  25. [lil'log]

    Scaling Laws, Carefully

    Scaling laws are one of the most critical empirical findings in deep learning. The observation is simple in form: the training loss $L$ decreases predictably…

  26. [vercel]

    GLM 5.2 Fast via Wafer now available on AI Gateway

    GLM 5.2 Fast via Wafer is now available on .AI Gateway Based on our own benchmarking across small-context, large-context, and tool-call scenarios, Wafer…

  27. [simon willison]

    datasette 1.0a35

    Release: datasette 1.0a35 I'll write more about this one soon, but it's a big release. Three highlights from the release notes: New "Create table" interface in…

  28. [apple developer]

    Design kits for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 27 are here

    Apple design kits for Figma and Sketch are now available for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 27. These include: Updates to Liquid Glass Expanded component and state…

  29. [simon willison]

    OPFS + Pyodide test harness

    Tool: OPFS + Pyodide test harness I've been pondering if Datasette Lite - the Python Datasette application run entirely in the browser using Pyodide and…

  30. [openai]

    How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery

    GPT-5 Pro helped solve a 3-year-old immunology mystery, offering insights into T cell behavior. The breakthrough could support cancer and autoimmune research.

  31. [github blog]

    GitHub joins coalition advocating for fixes to California AI Transparency Act to protect open source

    We’re calling for targeted amendments to resolve conflicts with open source licensing and align with international transparency frameworks while preserving…

  32. [openai]

    Helping build shared standards for advanced AI

    OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.

  33. [vercel]

    Deploy Node servers with zero configuration

    You can now deploy a to Vercel with zero configuration.Node.js server Vercel detects a file at the project root or at and deploys it as a Node.js application,…

  34. [latent space]

    [AINews] SpaceX is already a $28B/yr Neocloud

    a quiet day lets us reflect on some numbers from Jamin Ball.

  35. [openai]

    How Omio is building the future of conversational travel

    Discover how Omio uses OpenAI to power conversational travel experiences, accelerate product development, and transform into an AI-native company.

  36. [vercel]

    Preserve local environment variables when linking with the Vercel CLI

    The Vercel CLI now preserves your file when running . Previously, linking could overwrite variables already in the file. The CLI now updates if it exists, or…

  37. [vercel]

    Custom OIDC Token Audiences

    Vercel's OIDC issuer () now supports custom audiences. Deployments can request OIDC tokens with a specific audience claim, enabling secure service-to-service…

  38. [vercel]

    Deploy from Claude Design to Vercel

    Vercel is now a send-to destination in . When you finish a design, you can send it to Vercel and get a live URL back without leaving your canvas.Claude Design…

  39. [vercel]

    Redesigned trace viewer for Vercel Workflows

    The trace viewer for and has been redesigned to better support inspecting runs from start to finish. Search across spans, zoom into any section of the…

  40. [simon willison]

    Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

    Prompt Injection as Role Confusion First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper. I wish every paper would come with one of these.…

  41. [simon willison]

    Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code

    This morning on Hacker News I saw Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance , describing a small but effective inpainting…

  42. [latent space]

    Red-Teaming after Mythos — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan

    OpenAI boardmember Zico Kolter and Gray Swan CEO Matt Fredrikson join swyx to explain why AI security is not just “cybersecurity with AI”

  43. [vercel]

    Chat SDK adds Novu support

    Chat SDK now supports Novu with the new .vendor-official adapter One handler set puts your agent on Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email. Novu…

  44. [openai]

    Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers

    OpenAI introduces Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative helping open-source maintainers find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with AI and expert review.

  45. [openai]

    Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world

    OpenAI introduces new Daybreak tools, including Codex Security and GPT-5.5-Cyber, to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities at scale.

  46. [vercel]

    Vercel Flags: Platform-native feature flags

    At Vercel, feature flags are how we ship. From new features to model updates in v0, and even infrastructure changes like a production database migration where…

  47. [openai]

    Codex-maxxing for long-running work

    Learn how Jason Liu uses Codex to preserve context, manage complex projects, and help work continue beyond a single prompt.

  48. [simon willison]

    sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions

    sqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of…

  49. [simon willison]

    sqlite-utils 4.0rc1

    Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 See sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions . Tags: sqlite-utils

  50. [openai]

    Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees

    Samsung Electronics deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees worldwide, marking one of OpenAI’s largest enterprise AI rollouts.

  51. [simon willison]

    Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents

    Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents The announcement says this is "for AI agents" but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really…

  52. [latent space]

    [Exclusive] $250 off AI Engineer tix til Monday

    special offer for subscribers - $250 off AI Engineer tix til Monday

  53. [latent space]

    [AINews] not much happened today

    a quiet day lets us promo AIE one last time

  54. [simon willison]

    Quoting Sean Lynch

    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…

  55. [github blog]

    How we built an internal data analytics agent

    Qubot, our internal Copilot-powered analytics agent, allows any GitHub employee to ask questions about our data in plain language. Here's what we learned as we…

  56. [latent space]

    [AINews] GLM > GPT? GLM-5.2 passes vibe check; Z.ai forecasts Open Fable by December

    With GLM-5.2 passing everyone's vibe check, the open models story finally becomes a real frontier story.

  57. [simon willison]

    Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

    Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps , with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what , but…

  58. [simon willison]

    datasette-acl 0.6a0

    Release: datasette-acl 0.6a0 This release expands datasette-acl from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system. Alex Garcia did most of…

  59. [latent space]

    The Professor of Outputmaxxing — Anjney Midha, AMP

    We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic…

  60. [openai]

    New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises

    OpenAI introduces new spend controls and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations manage costs and scale AI with confidence.

  61. [apple developer]

    Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available

    Attachment 12 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to specify terms for iOS apps in Brazil, including alternative distribution,…

  62. [apple developer]

    Changes to iOS in Brazil

    As part of a recent agreement with Brazil’s competition regulator CADE (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica), Apple is introducing changes to iOS that…

  63. [android devs]

    Android developer verification: Building a safer ecosystem together

    Posted by Matthew Forsythe, Director Product Management, Android App Safety Last year, we introduced Android developer verification to strengthen ecosystem…

  64. [openai]

    Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

    Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and…

  65. [openai]

    Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children

    Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.

  66. [latent space]

    [AINews] Midjourney Medical: scan your organs like you step on a scale

    The only bootstrapped frontier lab announces its second product and second

  67. [simon willison]

    GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM

    Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT…

  68. [github blog]

    Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing

    How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further. The post Getting more from each token: How Copilot…

  69. [latent space]

    🔬 The Self-Driving Lab — Joseph Krause, Radical AI

    Radical AI's Joseph Krause on why the moat in materials is the lab, not the model

  70. [simon willison]

    Quoting Charity Majors

    What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down . Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to…

  71. [android devs]

    Building a Mixed-Reality Tour Guide with Android XR, the Geospatial API, and Gemini

    Posted by Coco Fatus, UX Designer, Alon Hetzroni, UX Engineer, Azin Mehrnoosh, Product Manager Android XR At this year's Google I/O, we announced an update for…

  72. [openai]

    A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

    OpenAI and Molecule.one show how a near-autonomous AI chemist using GPT-5.4 improved a key drug-making reaction, advancing medicinal chemistry research.

  73. [hugging face]

    GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks

  74. [latent space]

    [AINews] GLM-5.2: the top Frontend Coding model in the world, IndexShare for Speculative Decoding

    We have a new top open model in the world!

  75. [simon willison]

    <click-to-play> — a still that plays

    Tool: <click-to-play> — a still that plays A progressive enchantment Web Component that turns this markup: <click-to-play> <a href="URL to GIF"> <img src="URL…

  76. [simon willison]

    NetNewsWire Status

    NetNewsWire Status I find this inspiring. Brent Simmons retired a year ago, and his retirement project is making one piece of software really, really good -…

  77. [openai]

    Introducing LifeSciBench

    Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and…

  78. [simon willison]

    datasette 1.0a34

    Release: datasette 1.0a34 Quoting the release notes: The big feature in this alpha is tools to insert, edit and delete rows within the Datasette interface.…

  79. [android devs]

    Android 17 is here

    Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer Today we're releasing Android 17 and making it available on most supported Pixel…

  80. [latent space]

    [AINews] Satya on Loopcraft: Building Frontier Ecosystems

    a quiet day lets us report on Satya's hit essay

  81. [karpathy]

    microgpt

    .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } This is a…

  82. [lil'log]

    Why We Think

    Special thanks to John Schulman for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post. Test time compute (Graves et al. 2016, Ling, et al. 2017,…

  83. [karpathy]

    Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now

    .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } The Yann…