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3 itemsSimon Willison's WeblogSep 2
Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day . Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable amount of time on scientific research, boasting of a 52.6% score on the brand new Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 benchmark (first announced on August 27th ), up from 24.7% for Fable 5, 29.0% for Opus 5 and 22.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol. Other benchmarks show slightly improved scores, but none as impressive as the Science one. But how well can it pelican? Back in July I wrote about how I was losing faith in the pelican benchmark - its connection to how good the models were at other tasks didn't seem to hold as strongly as it did back in 2025 . The most interesting insights I get from it now are comparisons
Simon Willison's WeblogSep 2
I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime , including a full Python installation, a full Node.js installation, and native binaries for Poppler , git, and the LibreOffice open source office suite (which forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010): The ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/plugins/openai-primary-runtime/plugins/documents folder includes skills which tell Codex how to find and use those binaries. Tags: codex , generative-ai , openai , ai , llms , openoffice , open-source
AI HotSep 2
Anthropic 的 Claude Fable 5.1 已上线 OpenRouter，官方称其为 Fable 5 工作负载的直接升级版本，提升最大的方向包括 agentic coding、长时间运行的工作流、视觉代码生成、金融和分析。使用入口：https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-fable-5.1 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmtj0fqfq001nroh9x8mg1s3z
AI & Builders
9 itemsAI HotSep 1
Runway 推出 Solaris，这是其全新界面世界模型（Interface World Models）系列的首个模型。Solaris 能实时逐帧生成应用和网站界面，无需中间代码表示，直接以图像作为交互层，支持视觉化、动态响应和开放式交互。它还可用于训练智能体，使其适应不断变化的界面布局，而非局限于特定训练环境。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmthhmoi10e71rodmx6wngoz1
AI HotAug 31
DeepSeek 于 8 月 31 日在 Hugging Face 开源首个多模态模型 DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp，采用 MIT License，公开模型文件、Tokenizer、Prompt Encoding 参考实现及最小化 PyTorch 推理实现。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmth7tmq2067orodmh6g0sxie
AI HotSep 2
Anthropic 宣布推出 Claude Fable 5.1 和 Claude Mythos 5.1，称其为编码和知识工作领域最先进的模型。作者 Thariq 表示花了很多时间深入研究，认为模型很好，长文评测后续发布；建议对需要较少验证或边缘用例较少的任务使用较低 effort，且切换 effort 不再破坏 prompt cache。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmtjda2tv03llrobvuo5fi78q
AI HotSep 2
Google DeepMind 为 Gemini 3.7 Flash、3.6 Flash 和 3.5 Flash-Lite 推出 agentic video understanding，模型动态扫描视频片段，相比固定帧率处理 token 消耗最多降低 88%，成本最多降低 66%，准确率最多提升 7%。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmtiy0v6k01dproel63pg10os
AI HotSep 2
Rohan Paul 梳理了 Fable 5.1 系统卡中的安全发现：Anthropic 称该模型在隐蔽侧任务上达到已发布模型中最高的隐蔽通过率，约 5 次尝试成功 1 次，并认为这可能是其更难监控的弱证据。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmtj2y06p04bwroh9d8oszszo
Simon Willison's WeblogSep 1
Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here! Hugo van Kemenade (release manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15) announces the final release candidate for Python 3.15, scheduled for release in October: Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the final release. [...] We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to prepare their projects for 3.15 during this phase, and publish Python 3.15 wheels on PyPI to be ready for the final release of 3.15.0, and to help other projects do their own testing. Any binary wheels built against Python 3.15.0 release candidates will work with future versions of Python 3.15. Back in 2021 I found a bug in Python 3.10 by running my test suites against it... but I
Simon Willison's WeblogSep 2
Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council and found a need to display some GeoJSON files on a map and export that as a PNG. I asked GPT-5.6-Sol for suggestions of tools and it proactively built one. After some iterations using Claude Code for web and Fable 5.1 we got to this finished tool. As for the GeoJSON.. it turns out if you ask ChatGPT Work to provide boundaries for almost anything it will churn away extracting and combining files from different Government data sources and build exactly what you need. I got this polygon from: I want a polygon that represents the exact boundary of the El Granada GCSD And this one from: Get me a GeoJSON file for the bounda
Simon Willison's WeblogSep 1
Introducing wrapture New from Graham Dumpleton (of wrapt , mod_wsgi, and New Relic's Python agent fame), who describes Wrapture as taking the monkeypatching ideas from wrapt and extending them to apply to testing and tracing at the same time. Wrapture ( full documentation here ) makes it easy to wrap any function or method such that all access can be traced, or can be overridden to return a different value. It acts as both an alternative to unittest.mock and a way to implement tracing against an existing project: Attaching observation to code you do not control, recording what flows through it, and doing so without disturbing the program being watched, is a problem I have never really stopped thinking about. Wrapture includes OpenTelemetry support and even has an entirely configuration-bas
Simon Willison's WeblogSep 2
They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can't even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn't exist. It's dwarf behavior , and they misbehave sometimes — Tarn Adams , co-creator of Dwarf Fortress Tags: ai , game-design
Tech & Industry
15 itemsTechCrunchSep 2
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.
The Verge TechSep 2
Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing […]
TechCrunchSep 1
Amazon is adding a new Alexa-powered feature called “Update Me When” that can send personalized alerts about product launches, tours, books, shows, and other events that could trigger a purchase.
The Verge TechSep 2
Sonos unveiled a bunch of new stuff today at its open house event. There's the $699 Beam Ultra soundbar and the $449 Ace Ultra headphones, plus several under-the-hood app updates (some coming sooner than others). While the show floor was a less than ideal venue to judge audio quality of either new product, a private […]
TechCrunchSep 2
AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.
The Verge TechSep 2
After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into […]
TechCrunchSep 2
Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model's safeguards.
WIRED TechnologySep 2
The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
TechCrunchSep 2
Apple is hosting its iPhone release event next week, which is rumored to feature the first-ever foldable iPhone.
TechCrunchSep 2
The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.
WIRED TechnologySep 1
Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it’s “very hot these days.” The new features, which include agentic automation, are opt-in.
IEEE SpectrumAug 31
This story was originally published by Tech Policy Press . The European Union’s push for technological sovereignty faces an uncomfortable contradiction. As the E.U. rolls out AI factories, gigafactories, and new data centers, it is creating a surge in demand for the advanced semiconductors that underpin artificial intelligence. Yet Europe produces fewer than 10 percent of the world’s chips and remains heavily dependent on U.S. designers and Asian manufacturers for the most advanced processors. That tension sits at the heart of Chips Act 2.0 , the European Commission’s planned overhaul of its flagship semiconductor strategy. The original Chips Act, adopted in 2023, sought to raise Europe’s share of global semiconductor production to 20 percent by 2030. But the European Court of Auditors has
The Verge TechSep 2
Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also […]
WIRED TechnologySep 2
After long delays, JLR’s biggest gamble with its Range Rover brand is here with huge performance, range, and off-road EV skills. It’s mighty pricey, but the US gets a cheaper model.
WIRED TechnologySep 2
These are the 15 best Amazon Labor Day deals on WIRED-tested, WIRED-recommended products in 2026.
World Affairs
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The EFCC boss says more than five of the dismissed officials are already facing prosecution.
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Iranian news agencies said retaliatory missile and drone attacks on US targets had begun.
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The BBC's Tokyo correspondent Kurumi Mori tries Japan's latest food trend, instant noodles made using cold water.
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A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at the airport close to Ukrainian cargo planes on 4 August.
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The star makes an emotional farewell as she wraps up a tour she's described as her "last hurrah".
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The Massachusetts mother is facing murder charges for killing her three children at their family home in 2023.
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Design & Culture
1 itemsIt's Nice ThatSep 1
Join It’s Nice That and Google Gemini in New York for a free event exploring how designers are building, structuring and shaping the next generation of AI interfaces.
Outside the Bubble
1 itemsAeonSep 1
We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity - by Justin Neuman Read on Aeon