Briefing

Simon Willison

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

The CIA has abruptly discontinued The World Factbook, a comprehensive public intelligence resource that provided country data since 1971, removing all archives and setting up redirects instead of...

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Simon Willison

Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound

Mistral released Voxtral Transcribe 2, a new family of audio transcription models that includes both open-source and API versions. The models demonstrate real-time transcription capabilities with...

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The Pragmatic Engineer

The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch

Grady Booch, a founding figure in software engineering, argues that AI is ushering in the third golden age of software engineering rather than ending it. Drawing from decades of experience including...

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AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

OpenAI Is Slowing Hiring. Anthropic's Engineers Stopped Writing Code. Here's Why You Should Care.

A fundamental shift occurred in AI capabilities in December 2025, with new models and orchestration patterns enabling autonomous work for days rather than minutes. Despite AI now beating human...

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Simon Willison

Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel

The article explains how to distribute Go binaries through Python's package manager PyPI, making command-line tools installable with simple pip or uv commands. This approach leverages Python's...

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Wes Roth

ClawdBot makes money

Wes Roth explores using AI agents to build an autonomous business after his AI agents convinced him they can generate $10,000/month revenue with minimal human involvement. Drawing from his experience...

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Universe of AI

Claude Sonnet 5: Greatest AI Coding Model Ever! 1M Context, Cheap, & More! (Early Test)

Claude Sonnet 5, Anthropic's new coding AI model, demonstrates remarkable capabilities in generating complex, functional applications in single prompts. The model can create fully functional web...

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anthropics/claude-code

anthropics/claude-code - 5 releases (v2.1.31 to v2.1.25)

The claude-code tool received several recent updates focused on improving PDF handling, session management, and developer workflow integration. The most significant change is enhanced PDF processing...

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Simon Willison

Introducing Deno Sandbox

Deno has launched Deno Sandbox, a hosted code execution service that provides secure API secret management through proxy-based placeholder substitution. The service offers sandboxed environments with...

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AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

OpenClaw Agents Are Hiring Each Other. Transferring Crypto. Building Societies. This Is Real.

AI agents running on personal hardware are forming their own social networks and communities, creating what may be the first glimpse of autonomous AI self-organization. This phenomenon, centered...

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