datasette-atom 0.11a0 released
Simon Willison released datasette-atom 0.11a0. The author mentioned the version in his October 6 beat; the source did not describe specific feature changes or release details.
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Simon Willison12 Simon Willison22 llm-mistral 0.16 released
Simon Willison released llm-mistral 0.16, an update to the Mistral model plugin for the LLM command-line tool. The source did not describe specific features, model versions, or parameter details.
Ollama · X48 Ollama adds Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 for on-device multimodal embeddings
.@GoogleDeepMind EmbeddingGemma 2 is now available on Ollama. Made for consumer devices and is multimodal. ollama pull embeddinggemma-2 Quoted post by @GoogleDeepMind (context, not the main author's work): Meet EmbeddingGemma 2, our first natively multimodal open model for on-device embeddings. It expands beyond text to unify code, images, audio, and video in a shared space. 🧵
Claude · X35 The Every team runs as much work as possible through agents. To help the whole team share skills when a new model comes out, they built a company agent on Claude Managed Agents that everyone uses in Slack. Once it caught on internally, they released it to their subscribers.
The Every team runs as much work as possible through agents. To help the whole team share skills when a new model comes out, they built a company agent on Claude Managed Agents that everyone uses in Slack. Once it caught on internally, they released it to their subscribers.
TechCrunch · AI58 Musubi releases open-weight PolicyLM-1.7B decision model for real-time content moderation
Musubi released PolicyLM-1.7B, a lightweight decision model with open weights that applies content policies written in plain English to messages in 50 milliseconds. Its cost and speed are close to the AI classifiers used for moderation by major social platforms, while it offers the flexibility of a modern LLM and needs no specialized training to follow complex policies. Policy changes do not require retraining. Musubi co-founder and chief AI officer Filip Jankovic said this lets platform managers label content proactively.
Anthropic · X58 Anthropic expands Cyber Verification Program to give security professionals access to Claude Mythos 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic announced an expanded Cyber Verification Program, giving verified security professionals access to Claude Mythos 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Sonnet 5.5 with safeguards tailored to defensive work. A new tier also permits authorized offensive security work such as penetration tests and red-team exercises.
Gemini App · X60 Gemini Live adds Guided Vision real-time visual assistance
Google Gemini announced Guided Vision in Gemini Live, a feature built alongside the blind and low-vision community that offers conversational, real-time visual assistance. Users can now share their camera to receive dynamic audio descriptions and natural verbal reframing cues to explore their environment.
TechCrunch · AI60 Hark launches privacy-focused AI personal assistant Hark Pro
Startup Hark officially launched Hark Pro, an AI personal assistant that is free to use, with a paid subscription for heavy users. Built on a model trained specifically to operate computers, it can connect to email, calendars, hard drives, and credit cards to handle digital tasks for users. It shows the agent browsing the web in a small window to build trust.
OpenAI News22 How OpenAI and Ironclad are advancing AI agents' computer-use capabilities
OpenAI and Ironclad are training and evaluating AI agents on complex contract workflows to advance computer-use capabilities for professional work. They are using contract processes as a test case for agent performance on real professional tasks.
Logan Kilpatrick · X60 Google releases Nano Banana 2.1 image model
Google released Nano Banana 2.1 for image generation and editing. It delivers higher-quality images, fixes several issues in the previous model, and costs less. It is available through the API, AI Studio, and the Gemini app.
Claude · X60 Claude works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and those files also open inside Claude. In Google Workspace, Claude sits in a sidebar next to your file, reads what you have open, and edits it in place. You can approve each edit before it lands.
AWS Machine Learning Blog22 Amazon SageMaker Studio can now manage SageMaker HyperPod Spaces directly
Amazon SageMaker Studio added an IDE and Notebooks tab. Data scientists can create, configure, start, stop, and open Spaces on HyperPod EKS clusters without using the CLI or kubectl. It supports JupyterLab, Code Editor, and connecting to VS Code through SSH over SSM.
TechCrunch · AI31 Pinterest launches Beauty Guides, turning beauty Pins into salon-ready action plans with AI
Pinterest launched Beauty Guides, powered by its Pinterest Intelligence visual intelligence and generative AI technology. The feature turns beauty Pins about hairstyles, nails, and other topics into action plans users can take to a salon.
The Verge · AI34 Alexa Plus bug reportedly makes Amazon speakers hum 'lalala' for minutes
Alexa Plus on Amazon Echo speakers has a bug that makes it repeatedly sing 'lalala' for several minutes in the middle of conversations, without recognizing the behavior when users ask about it. The issue has been reported multiple times on Reddit in recent weeks across several Echo models, with the latest report three days ago. Amazon confirmed a bug affecting a 'small number of Alexa Plus users' and is working on a fix.
The Decoder62 Cohere launches North 2 enterprise AI console with support for any model
Cohere upgraded its enterprise platform to North 2, which can handle multi-step workflows autonomously and retain context across sessions. Its new orchestration system coordinates agents using shared knowledge bases and reusable skills, connects tools such as Slack, SharePoint, and Jira, and can generate presentations, dashboards, and simple apps from text prompts in chat.
Z.ai 智谱 · X22 GLM-5.3 launches on Amazon Bedrock
GLM-5.3 is now available on Amazon Bedrock. Powerful coding and agent capabilities for enterprises. Get started: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-zai-glm-5-3.html
AWS Machine Learning BlogPicks62 GLM 5.3 launches on Amazon Bedrock
Zhipu AI (Z.ai)'s GLM 5.3 is now available on Amazon Bedrock. The 753B-parameter mixture-of-experts model targets coding and long-horizon agent tasks and is offered through a fully managed API with cross-region inference, prompt caching, and service tiers. It is currently available to eligible enterprise customers.
Why it matters: The source describes how to access GLM 5.3 on Bedrock and use prompt caching, helping readers assess the cost impact of managed inference for coding and long-horizon agent workflows.
Simon Willison65 Anthropic's Cowork moves model inference and virtual machines to the cloud
Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg explained that the old version of Cowork ran model inference in the cloud but executed tool calls in an Anthropic VM delivered with the desktop app. Users disliked the disk, battery, and performance costs of a local VM, and they also disliked work stopping when they closed their laptops.
The Verge · AI32 Gemini Call for Me may support calling family and friends to pass along messages
Google's Gemini Call for Me AI feature may expand from business calls to calling friends and family. Android Authority found a 'Gemini Calling' onboarding page in an APK teardown, with examples such as 'Call Mom and tell her I'll be 15 minutes late' and 'Call John and ask if he's coming to dinner'. The feature may still be limited to brief, text-message-like calls.
The Verge · AI58 Nolla Health launches AI-generated acne prescriptions in Utah
Healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that Utah residents aged 18 and over with mild to moderate acne can scan their faces with its app so AI can assess severity and issue prescriptions autonomously. The pilot gradually reduces physician oversight: the first 100 patients have each AI prescription reviewed by two doctors; for up to the next 500 patients, prescriptions are reviewed after issuance. After that, at least 10% of prescriptions are audited each month, along with all escalations and side-effect cases.
Ars Technica · AI40 RemoveMacAI: command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The open-source RemoveMacAI command-line tool can quickly remove Apple Intelligence from macOS 27. Its developer says it uses a configuration profile approved through System Settings together with Apple's own resource service, keeps System Integrity Protection enabled, and does not directly modify /System.
TechCrunch · AI60 TikTok launches AI shopping assistant and one-tap checkout
TikTok announced on Monday an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users order from brands directly with one tap in the For You feed. The shopping assistant is a conversational AI agent that understands context and remembers user preferences across a chat. It provides real-time guidance on product details, shipping, sizing, and inventory, and helps complete purchases.
TechCrunch · AI60 Instinct brings AI agents into group chats, with no account needed for friends
Instinct, valued at $10 billion, announced that AI agents are coming to group chats. Users can add an agent to conversations with friends for trip planning, ticket-buying, and carpool coordination. Friends can participate without signing up for Instinct.
TechCrunch · AI22 Two sisters launch Hot Girl Hotline, an AI relationship advice app for young women
Hot Girl Hotline, founded by two sisters, launched to provide relationship and interpersonal advice to young women using AI. It uses Socratic questions to guide users toward their own conclusions and has safety mechanisms that refer users to the 988 crisis hotline when risk is detected. The app costs $9.99 per month and already has hundreds of paying active users. Data is encrypted throughout, is not used for training, and is subject to a zero-data-retention policy by third-party models. The service is available on iOS and the web.
The Verge · AI60 OpenAI adds text watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex
OpenAI is adding invisible, machine-readable text watermarking called textGrain to ChatGPT and Codex outputs. It will initially be available to EU users, with a rollout to all EU plans over the coming weeks.
AWS Machine Learning Blog34 Amazon SageMaker AI launches aws-ai-ml skill to optimize generative AI inference from coding agents including Kiro, Claude Code, and Codex
Amazon SageMaker AI launched the aws-ai-ml skill through Agent Toolkit for AWS, giving MCP-enabled coding agents such as Kiro, Claude Code, and Codex inference-optimization and benchmarking capabilities. They can benchmark endpoints, recommend deployment configurations, compare performance, and generate executable SageMaker Python SDK v3 code.
TechCrunch · AI62 HackerRank opens AI interviewer Chakra to customers
HackerRank made its AI interviewer Chakra generally available to customers. During roughly six months of testing, it conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with companies including Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini participating.
AWS Machine Learning Blog34 Evaluate multi-agent system interpretability and usefulness with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations supports built-in and custom evaluators for measuring agent accuracy, task success rates, and behavior during development and production.
AWS Machine Learning Blog34 Make Amazon Quick enterprise-ready with automated, auditable cross-account resource migration
Cross-account resource migration in Amazon Quick can be automated with an MCP server deployed on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It supports one-click migration of chat agents, action connectors, knowledge bases, flows, and spaces from a development account to a production account.
Cursor · X40 You can now steer Cursor SDK agents while they run. run.steer() adds your message to the next turn. If a subagent is mid-task, it moves to the background and keeps working.
You can now steer Cursor SDK agents while they run. run.steer() adds your message to the next turn. If a subagent is mid-task, it moves to the background and keeps working.
TechCrunch · AI60 OpenAI introduces visual ads beside image-generation results
OpenAI added visual display ads to its ChatGPT advertising lineup. Ads will appear next to image-generation requests, initially in the United States later this month from a group of test advertisers. OpenAI says ads will be clearly labeled and will not affect ChatGPT's answers.
The Verge · AI38 Open-source tool RemoveMacAI can delete about 12 GB of Apple Intelligence data from macOS
The open-source RemoveMacAI command-line tool can turn off Apple Intelligence features, delete its local models, and prevent macOS from downloading them again. Its developer says it can free up about 12 GB of space.
OpenAI News38 OpenAI adds a new visual ad format to ChatGPT and expands ad measurement tools
OpenAI introduced a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expanded measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability options for advertisers.
雷锋网62 Huawei launches Mate 90 series with flagship τ chip and HarmonyOS 7 across the lineup
At its October 1 Mate 90 series and all-scenario product launch, Huawei introduced the Mate 90 lineup, all powered by its flagship τ chip. Its stacked logic-chiplet architecture delivers 125 TB/s of cross-die bandwidth and cuts critical-path latency by 30%. Overall performance on the Mate 90 Pro Max is 31% higher than the previous generation.
The Decoder58 Meta releases open-source Muse Gadgets project so hobbyists can build AI hardware
Meta announced the open-source Muse Gadgets project, providing ESP32 firmware and a Linux SDK for hobbyists to build their own devices connected to its AI agent Muse. The code is licensed under Apache 2.0.
TechCrunch · AI38 A look at AI agents that live in your text messages: Instinct, Caddy, Fambot, and more
More AI agents are taking tasks and carrying them out directly through messaging channels such as iMessage, RCS, SMS, and WhatsApp, without requiring users to download an app.
The DecoderPicks76 Anthropic launches Mods, a plugin system for Claude Code
Anthropic released Mods for Claude Code, a middleware layer that runs inside the tool. Developers can use JavaScript or TypeScript functions to hook into events such as tool calls, user prompts, and UI rendering, adding custom panels, intercepting tool calls, or connecting new commands.
Why it matters: Anthropic added plugin-style Mods middleware to Claude Code, showing how it changes extensibility and permission risks in coding tools.
TechCrunch · AI58 Meta launches open-source Muse Gadgets project so developers can build hardware for Muse
Meta launched the open-source Muse Gadgets project, providing open firmware and a Linux SDK for developers to build devices connected to its personal AI agent Muse using inexpensive hardware such as Raspberry Pi or ESP32. It offers examples including a color e-ink display, an HDMI TV stick, and other projects, and has opened a Discord channel to support users.
Ollama · X38 .@Cloudflare's decision models are available on Ollama! Decision models allow you to classify an image, label a bug report or route a support ticket to the right team. Clef (27B): ollama pull clef Clef Flash (9B): ollama pull clef-flash
.@Cloudflare's decision models are available on Ollama! Decision models allow you to classify an image, label a bug report or route a support ticket to the right team. Clef (27B): ollama pull clef Clef Flash (9B): ollama pull clef-flash
The Verge · AI58 Meta open-sources code for users to build their own Muse AI hardware
Meta open-sourced code that lets people build their own hardware for Muse, its new AI agent. Suggested projects include putting Muse on a color e-ink screen for reminders, on an HDMI stick for a big-screen display, or on a small touchscreen as a DIY Muse Charm. Users can connect displays, buttons, sensors, and actuators using off-the-shelf ESP32 development boards or Raspberry Pi with Meta's SDK.