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sqlite-utils 4.2.1

Release: sqlite-utils 4.2.1 Fixes a crashing bug in sqlite-utils 4.2. I'd introduced code that looks like this: from typing_extensions import Self It turned out the typing-extensions package was not listed as a…

sqlite-utils 4.2

Release: sqlite-utils 4.2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.transform() feature, which adds support for complex alter table operations by creating a fresh table, copying across the data and then…

llm-gemini 0.33

Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash, gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding…

Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets

Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas

The video shows Sheets canvas in action.

The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6

Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.

149th airhacks tv: HTMLDB, Frameworks Obsolete, Zero-Dependency Agents

The 2026.08 / 149th edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: "Spring Gateway vs nginx vs cloud API gateways: nginx and HAProxy as proxies, cloud gateways transforming HTTP into CloudEvents, authentication, JWTs…

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.

alchemy-utils 0.1a1

Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a1 Performance boost for DuckDB exports and CSV imports, see here.

What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML

I Built the Outreach System I Couldn’t Find

How a simple outreach workflow slowly turned into a system that checks replies, handles follow-ups, personalizes messages, and keeps track of what happened.

True Positive Weekly #173

The most important artificial intelligence and machine learning news and articles

Honor's robot phone is finally here

PLUS: Agility's humanoid no longer needs a fence

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid…

Grok 4.6 storms the AI frontier

PLUS: Generate 100 pain-point ad hooks from customer feedback

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes…

ExRole: From Team Trajectories to Executable Roles in Multi-Agent Language Models

arXiv:2608.11949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Roles provide an interpretable interface for organizing language-model agents, yet most multi-agent systems treat them as hand-written prompt labels disconnected from…

JieZi: A Large-Scale Expert-Audited Dataset and Benchmark for Ancient Chinese Character Exegesis

arXiv:2608.11741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The scholarly exegesis of ancient Chinese characters demands integrating visual observation, linguistic analysis, and historical context. However, existing computational…

Behavior and Representation in Open-Weight Large Language Models for Combinatorial Optimization: From Feature Extraction to Algorithm Selection

arXiv:2512.13374v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) open new perspectives for automation in optimization, yet little is known about whether their internal representations…