White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6
We have a new standard policy for releasing frontier AI models. It is not good.
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AI and Liability
AI and Liability
AI and Liability Bruce Schneier on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. If a company hired human writers to write its summaries, that company would be liable for inaccuracies in those summaries. [...] To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI in those same circumstances would be a massive handout to companies,…
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The AI Engineering Master Stack for 2026!
...covered with full hands-on resources.
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datasette-export-database 0.3a2
datasette-export-database 0.3a2
Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a2 An embarrassingly tiny release. The pyproject.toml had pinned to datasette==1.0a27, inadvertently making this plugin incompatible with all other Datasette versions. It's now datasette>=1.0a27 instead. Tags: datasette
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The Generative AI Fizzle™
Disclaimer: Anything can happen at anytime in the market; I don’t give stock picks, and as the saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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AI #174: You're It
Fable remains in limbo, with renewed hope that we will get it back soon (45% by tomorrow, 69% by July 1, nice.) The full capabilities post is now available.
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So Long and Thanks for All the Context
So Long and Thanks for All the Context
I got a really interesting question last week from Mike Loukides, my editor at Radar, after he read the third part of this trilogy on context management. “Another issue I’ve read about,” Mike asked, “is the tendency for a model to ignore the middle of the context. I’ve seen that particularly for the models with […]
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simonw/browser-compat-db
simonw/browser-compat-db
simonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility data into a SQLite database. This new GitHub repo includes a Claude Code for web (Opus 4.8) generated script for doing that using sqlite-utils. I wanted the resulting ~66MB SQLite database to be available via the GitHub CDN with open CORS headers. GitHub releases don't have those, but any file…
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Speculation Is All You Need!
New technique delivers 4x faster LLM inference in production.
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Quoting Tom MacWright
Quoting Tom MacWright
In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with purely LLM-generated commit messages. [...] My other reaction is that I don't know anything about these people. They haven't put themselves out there. They haven't said anything true. [...] The perfected, generated, prompted resume is generic and impersonal. It tells me nothing about this person,…
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Stop Getting Good at Protocols. Get Good at Agent Experience.
Stop Getting Good at Protocols. Get Good at Agent Experience.
In 2025, if you weren’t building with MCP, you weren’t serious about agents. The Model Context Protocol dominated the agent conversation for the better part of the year. Conference talks, roadmaps, hiring plans, all of it revolved around MCP. Then late 2025 into 2026, AI Skills arrived and the backlash was immediate. Engineers declared MCP […]
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Loop Engineering, Clearly Explained!
(must-know to efficiently run ML models in production)
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datasette 1.0a35
datasette 1.0a35
Release: datasette 1.0a35 I'll write more about this one tomorrow, but it's a big release. Three highlights from the release notes: New "Create table" interface in the database actions menu, backed by the /<database>/-/create JSON API. It can define columns, primary keys, custom column types, NOT NULL constraints, literal defaults, expression defaults and single-column foreign keys. (#2787) New "Alter table" table action and /<database>/<table>/-/alter JSON API for changing…
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OPFS + Pyodide test harness
OPFS + Pyodide test harness
Tool: OPFS + Pyodide test harness I've been pondering if Datasette Lite - the Python Datasette application run entirely in the browser using Pyodide and WebAssembly - might be able to edit persistent SQLite files stored on the user's computer. That's what OFPS (Origin Private File System) is for, so I had Claude Code for web build me this playground UI to try it out in different browsers. Tags: browsers, pyodide, datasette-lite
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