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05 Aug 2026 edition

92 articles · 39 sources ·

Top topics: Rust · AWS · Python

Python AI Django

Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one. I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog

Detect CDC failures faster with AWS DMS

AWS DMS uses exponential backoff for recoverable errors, and default settings can let a change data capture (CDC) task retry silently for up to 30 minutes before failing. This post shows how to tune four…

Source: AWS Database Blog Aritra Biswas
Python AI Django

One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5

Back in 2022 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in Claude…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Django Python

Django 6.1 released

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 6.1. The release notes offer a harmonious mélange of new features and usability improvements. A few highlights are: Model field fetch modes for configuring…

Source: Django Weblog Jacob Walls

Google Accelerator Alumni: Trakto

Learn more at g.co/accelerator/about Google Accelerators work with top growth-stage startups, developers, researchers, and nonprofits around the world, supporting leaders with bespoke technical builds leveraging Google…

Source: Google Cloud Tech Google Cloud
AWS

Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search

Today, AWS announces the general availability of vector search for Amazon DynamoDB, a new feature to index and search vectors in real time. As vector datasets grow into the billions or trillions, vector search at scale…

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

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