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11 Aug 2026 edition
Python AI Django

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name (stolen-thoughts.com) for a neat paper: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0

Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 This plugin has been around for a while - it lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that database will start being served by that…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
AI Tools GitHub AI

langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-anthropic==1.5.5

Changes since langchain-anthropic==1.5.4 release(anthropic): 1.5.5 (#39597) fix(anthropic): report reasoning tokens in usage metadata (#39590) fix(anthropic): fix KeyError on rename in Claude file-tool middleware…

Source: LangChain Releases github-actions[bot]
AI Tools GitHub AI

langchain-ai/langchain: langchain==1.3.15

Changes since langchain==1.3.14 release(langchain): 1.3.15 (#39595) feat(langchain): expose trace_policy on AgentMiddleware (#38910) chore(langchain): fix type errors in tests (#39589) chore: bump h2 from 4.3.0 to 4.4.1…

Source: LangChain Releases github-actions[bot]
AI Tools GitHub AI

langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-core==1.5.4

Changes since langchain-core==1.5.3 release(core): 1.5.4 (#39592) fix(core): compat with pydantic 2.14 (#39328) fix(core): stop StructuredPrompt from mutating caller kwargs (#39174) fix(core): preserve flat tool args…

Source: LangChain Releases github-actions[bot]
AI Labs AI

Daybreak models are now available on AWS

OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.

Source: OpenAI News
AI Labs AI

Testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

Source: OpenAI News
Hugging Face AI

Hugging Face Journal Club: Direct On-Policy Distillation

The Hugging Face research team discusses the paper "Weak-to-Strong Generalization via Direct On-Policy Distillation" which proposes a cheap way to transfer the benefits of reinforcement learning from small models to…

Source: Hugging Face Hugging Face