LandingAI ADE vs Google Pinpoint
Compare LandingAI ADE and Google Pinpoint by document types, accuracy evidence, source traceability, deployment, pricing, access, and best-fit workflows.
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Nano Banana 2.1 Review
Have an idea for a lesson illustration, a project chart, or a comic for your next presentation? Nano Banana 2.1 lets you explore these formats with text prompts, making it easier to try different visual styles without switching between tools.
Analytics Vidhya7 min read
Claude Haiku 5.5
As previously promised, here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5. The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age.
Simon Willison4 min read
10 Jev Projects on GitHub You Should Check Out
Agents make dozens of small decisions before producing useful output: which source to trust, which tool to call, what context to keep and when to stop. Jev brings those hidden choices into the open by turning them into typed decisions with probabilities, instead of relying on free-form text alone.
Analytics Vidhya8 min read
Machine Translation Advances Remain Under-Discussed Despite Near-Perfect Accuracy
The Silent Revolution in Machine Translation: A Technological Triumph Unheralded Machine translation, once a formidable challenge in computational linguistics, has reached a near-perfect resolution for high-resource languages, thanks to advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and neural…
Dev.to AI16 min readQuoting Jake Boggan
I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years of my life, on and off as I worked in many different fields.
Simon Willison1 min readOpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking: The Wikimedia Foundation conducted its own investigation to see whether Wikimedia…
Simon Willison2 min readQuoting Victoria Kim
Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr. Kwon [chief strategy officer at OpenAI] said.
Simon Willison1 min read
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own cluster of 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs. The preview is available via their API.
Simon Willison2 min read
Scrimshaw Jukebox
Tool: Scrimshaw Jukebox I wanted to see if Claude Opus 5.5 could compose music, so I tried this: I want you to write some computer game music for me. First design simple text based format for the music and build an artifact that can play it out loud - include some example tracks in that artifact I…
Simon Willison2 min read
JEV vs LLM as a Judge: The AI Evaluation Comparison
Many teams now use LLM-as-a-Judge to check AI answers, especially when exact-match tests fail for long or open-ended responses. But every judgement adds cost, delay, and possible bias, making this hard to scale.
Analytics Vidhya26 min readQuoting Felix Rieseberg
The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability, safety, and security reasons - mapping in just the data you explicitly added to your session.
Simon Willison2 min read
AI Interview #8 - Why is the chatbot so slow?
If our AI chatbot is taking too long to respond, what can we do to reduce latency? This is a real interview question from a big tech company, asked to a candidate in their technical interview round. The video explains the answer in ~6 minutes. To crack more questions, subscribe to the channel!
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Qwen3.8 27B addition in words
Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could "compute the sum but return the answer in words" across increasingly large numbers.
Simon Willison2 min read
ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in just six hours
An AI engineer used GPT-6 Astra to reveal the contents of a cipher that hadn’t been read since the Napoleonic Wars. The task was initiated with a single image and prompt, and took just six hours from start to finish.
Tom's Hardware AI3 min read
Open-source tool designs LEGO builds with more than 2,000 real pieces
Carlos Antelo's open-source ldraw-nova lets GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 design LEGO models as LDraw CAD files.
Tom's Hardware AI4 min read
AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x
Daniel Newman’s number comes from OpenRouter data, where agents passed humans in February and grew 14x by August.
Tom's Hardware AI3 min read
ChatGPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft 'blind' and clears the orc starting zone in 40 minutes with no deaths
The model created its own World of Warcraft pathfinder on a private server with one prompt in OpenAI's Codex.
Tom's Hardware AI4 min read
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