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2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase

2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase

Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Their work spans the breadth of modern AI — robotics and embodied intelligence, large language models and reasoning, computer vision, generative modeling, AI safety, human-AI interaction, AI for science and…

BAIR Blog
Meet TYPO3: Supporting the Open-Source Foundation of Its Ecosystem

Meet TYPO3: Supporting the Open-Source Foundation of Its Ecosystem

TYPO3 has joined the PHP Foundation as a Silver Sponsor, extending its commitment to the open-source technologies and communities on which its own ecosystem is built. TYPO3 is an open-source enterprise content management system built with open web standards. It provides a robust feature set for scalable, multisite, multilingual, and highly connected digital platforms. TYPO3 is also a verified Digital Public Good and part of the Open Website Alliance through the TYPO3 Association. PHP: the…

The PHP Foundation
Nano Banana 2 Lite

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale". I used AI studio to run this prompt: Do a where's Waldo style image but it's where is the raccoon holding a ham radio I like that one better than the results I got from the other Nano Banana models when I tried this back in April. It spelled Forest Festival wrong in two different ways though. Via Hacker…

Simon Willison's Weblog
Risky Biz Podcast: AI Agents Are Raising the Stakes for Software Supply Chain Security

Risky Biz Podcast: AI Agents Are Raising the Stakes for Software Supply Chain Security

The last six months have been one of the most intense stretches of software supply chain attacks the open source ecosystem has seen. Attackers are compromising widely used packages, abusing trusted developer workflows, stealing credentials, and using package registries, IDE extensions, and source repositories to distribute malicious code. At the same time, AI coding agents are changing how software gets built, pulling in dependencies at machine speed and making unreviewed trust decisions…

Socket
What's new in Claude Sonnet 5

What's new in Claude Sonnet 5

What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning. I always head straight for the "what's new" developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the official announcement post. Anthropic say of Sonnet 5 that "its performance is close to that of Opus 4.8, but at lower prices". The system card helps explain how they were able to release the model without being blocked by the US government: Sonnet 5 is significantly less capable at cyber tasks than…

Simon Willison's Weblog
MIRI Newsletter #126

MIRI Newsletter #126

Announcing: AI StopWatch In our last update, we mentioned we had something new in the works: a dedicated channel for news and analysis about AI. Subscribe to AI StopWatch An experiment from the writers and analysts at MIRI, AI StopWatch posts news and commentary seven days a week. You can read our commentary as it’s […] The post MIRI Newsletter #126 appeared first on Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

MIRI Blog
The AI Compass

The AI Compass

The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my answers on my first time through the quiz categorized me as "The Garage Tinkerer", patron saint myself! It's implemented as a single page React app using the <script type="text/babel"> trick to avoid the necessary build step. Here's the code. Via @erisianrite.com Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms,…

Simon Willison's Weblog
Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video

Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video

shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today's shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to record a video of that routine. I've written before about the importance of having coding agents produce demos of their work; this is my latest attempt at enabling them to do that. Here's an example video created using shot-scraper video, exercising a still in development feature adding the ability to…

Simon Willison's Weblog
The End of Tokenmaxxing

The End of Tokenmaxxing

The practice of tokenmaxxing appears to be dying out, even before I had a chance to write about it. Good riddance. Burning tokens to create the appearance of productivity was fated to last only until the accountants learned about it, and the strictest of all accountants is one’s personal checkbook. What got many developers thinking […]

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