Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B , an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for running a model on a reasonably specced laptop, and its predecessor Qwen 3.6 27B was impressive. Qwen's self-reported benchmarks for this model are eye-opening. They show a boost from both Qwen 3.6 27B…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 16 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web . LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries. We can build our app as a solid, accountable core, and allow users to safely extend it in many directions by having LLMs fill in the missing pieces. We can give…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 19 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of "How AI is changing software development". We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple of my highlights from a lightly edited transcript (prompt to Claude: "very minor edits to remove disfluencies"). This is the latest version of an argument I've been trying to build about why…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 19 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
LangSmith Tuned Evaluators attach quality feedback to production traces, starting with Perceived Error, to help teams find and fix agent mistakes.
Summary published by LangChain Blog · 19 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Article URL: https://linear.app/data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353432 Points: 183 # Comments: 112
Summary published by Hacker News - Newest: "AI" · 18 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
The Mojo programming language has been promising an open source release since May 2023 . Last week they shipped their 1.0 and today they have followed through on that original promise, releasing the compiler and toolchain under an Apache 2 license. When Mojo first launched the stated goal was to produce a superset of Python, so existing Python code could be used to bootstrap their own ecosystem.…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 18 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
I am grateful that Anthropic is producing periodic Risk Reports.
Summary published by Don't Worry About the Vase · 18 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Learn why companies must own their agent systems, governance, context, and feedback loops to turn generic AI into lasting business advantage.
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We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Sol leads pass@1 by 10 points at 35x the cost; Pro wins pass@4, and a Pro-first cascade hits 83.0%.
Summary published by Together.ai · 18 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and just one point behind GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) - that GLM is 753B and that DeepSeek is 1.7T parameters , and Luna is size unknown but presumably a whole lot bigger than 27B. Qwen 3.8 27B is a truly astonishing model . Via Hacker News Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , qwen , ai-in-china , artificial-analysis
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 17 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders for large volumes of books from apparently price-insensitive anonymous customers, widely suspected to be companies looking to scan them for AI training (see my previous coverage of Anthropic's book scanning from June 2025.) 404 Media investigated with an AirTag! In July, one…
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https://xcancel.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325789 Points: 249 # Comments: 544
Summary published by Hacker News - Newest: "AI" · 17 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Claude Fable 5. Fable leads pass@1 at 90x the cost; Pro wins pass@4, and a Pro-first cascade hits 82.7%.
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Article URL: https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320611 Points: 331 # Comments: 129
Summary published by Hacker News - Newest: "AI" · 16 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Learn what AI agents are, how they work in an LLM loop, and where workflows fit so you can build reliable, production-ready autonomous systems.
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