// a daily digest from the AI world
New models, tools and announcements — every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.
Simon Willison's llm tool reached version 0.35, adding support for OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model. That makes the model accessible straight from the command line, handy for both experimentation and scripting.
OpenAI shared an inside view of its research, including chief scientist Jakub Pachocki's essay “An Alien Mind”. The pieces explore recursive self-improvement (RSI) and detail how OpenAI's own research team routinely relies on coding agents.
OpenAI, together with AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA, launched a program to help Ukrainian news organizations with AI. The goal is to strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.
A dispute has emerged over how the Anthropic settlement payments are split. Authors argue that publishers and literary agents are claiming a larger share than they deserve.
Konstantin Ryabitsev describes how abusive crawlers are straining the infrastructure of git.kernel.org, the official Linux kernel repository. He says the servers spend more compute rendering commits for scrapers than on all legitimate traffic, including git clones.
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