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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
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
Python GitHub

astral-sh/uv: 0.12.2

Release Notes Released on 2026-08-05. Python Add CPython 3.15.0rc1 (#20948) Add CPython 3.14.7 (#20971) Enhancements Ensure diagnostic hints end with a newline to prevent malformed terminal output (#20959) Preview…

Source: uv Releases astral-automations-bot[bot]
FastAPI GitHub Python

encode/starlette: Version 1.4.1

What's Changed Default thread_minimum_size in GZipResponder by @Kludex in #3415 Full Changelog: 1.4.0...1.4.1

Source: Starlette Releases Kludex
FastAPI GitHub Python

encode/starlette: Version 1.4.0

What's Changed Lazily allocate GZipMiddleware compression resources by @Kludex in #3407 Use zlib.compressobj instead of GzipFile in GZipMiddleware by @Kludex in #3411 Offload large GZip compression by @Kludex in #3410…

Source: Starlette Releases Kludex
Python

Announcing RetroVault

RomM is the best thing to happen to my game library, and I think it is a preview of how personal media should work generally. Point it at a collection and it scans the files, identifies their systems, enriches them with…

Source: Kenneth Reitz
Python

Validating Data With Pointblank in Python

Learn how to validate data in Python with Pointblank: declare quality checks, split clean from failing rows, and rerun validation plans from YAML.

Source: Real Python
Python

Core Dispatch #9

Welcome back to Core Dispatch! This edition covers July 18 through August 5, 2026. Python 3.15.0 release candidate 1 landed on August 4, followed by Python 3.14.7 and 3.13.15 on August 5. With the first release…

Source: Core Dispatch