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26 Aug 2026 edition

5 articles · 4 sources ·

Top topics: Python · Django · AI

Python AI Django

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B parameters but only 6B active…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Quoting Paul Dix

The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python Django

#560: Building a Research OS: From Django to 30,000 Samples

In 2020, a gastroenterologist in Glasgow did the math on his new research study and came up with 30,000 samples, arriving over two years from three cities and a dozen hospitals. He asked around about how researchers…

Source: Talk Python To Me Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)
Python Django

Unified Concurrency Interface

From my experience working on asyncio code and sync/non-asyncio code, probablythe most annoying part is actually building interfaces that support both. You get a bunch of aget or async_get verus get calls. Async…

Source: Python Ideas Christopher Bailey
Python Django

#493 CalVer and LTS

Topics include Web UIs for your reverse proxy, , , and Django’s annual releases make every version an LTS.

Source: Python Bytes Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker