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01 Sep 2026 edition

1700 articles · 63 sources · 1310 papers ·

Top topics: AI · AI Research · General

Python AI Django

Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican

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…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
AWS

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports sharing job bundles

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports sharing job bundles, giving teams a simple way to distribute and reuse render job templates without manual file distribution. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps teams…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
Architecture AI

Fragments: September 1

Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of…

Source: Martin Fowler Martin Fowler (martin@martinfowler.com)
Python AI Django

GeoJSON Map Viewer

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…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Rust

Why the `unreachable!()` can't be optimized away?

type Arg = Vec<u8>; #[unsafe(no_mangle)] fn test(this: &mut Option<Arg>, arg: Arg) { *this = Some(arg); let Some(arg) = this else { unreachable!() }; black_box(arg); } With rust v1.98.0, its assembly: test: pushq %r14…

Source: Rust Users Forum TauYip
Python AI Django

Quoting Tarn Adams

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…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
AWS

Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now support compact mode

Amazon Connect Customer now offers compact mode on the analytics dashboards, increasing data density so supervisors can see more of their operational data without scrolling. Compact mode reduces widget size, font, and…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com

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