// 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.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has laid out a plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman appears to agree. The open question now is what a more measured approach across the whole industry would actually look like in practice.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune there will be no OpenAI IPO in 2026. Over a 45-minute interview he also touched on the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the prospect of building an AI beyond human control.
Simon Willison had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) design 5K and 10K running routes looping from his house using OpenStreetMap data. The model worked for 27 minutes and delivered exactly that, as an embedded visualization plus downloadable GPX and GeoJSON files.
The shot-scraper screenshot automation tool gains WebP support in version 1.12. Just output to a `.webp` file, and the `--quality` option sets the quality; without it the file is lossless. In the author’s experience WebP screenshots are usually significantly smaller.
Simon Willison released commit-rewriter, a small web app for editing a repository’s commit messages that you run via `uvx`. He built it while preparing the Datasette security releases, whose initial commits were full of coding-agent cruft and private-repo issue IDs unfit for publication.
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