17 Sep 2026 · 15 articles
A guide on scaling agents in Europe & the Middle East to see how Schneider Electric, Vodafone, and monday.com are approaching production AI at scale, from establishing shared agent platforms and LLMOps practices to designing multi-agent architectures with stronger observability, evaluation, and control.
Summary published by LangChain Blog · 3 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Release: datasette 1.0a40 Same security fix as 0.65.5 , plus some neat new features and bug fixes: Plugins can now launch and manage background tasks using the new datasette.add_background_task() method. Thanks, Alex Garcia . I've migrated Datasette to httpx2 for features like the internal datasette.client.get() method. A whole lot of bug fixes , many of them stemming from a recent effort to…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 16 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
In hopefully good news for anyone who, like me, was increasingly confused at Cowork v.s. Claude v.s. Claude Code: Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude. Bring a quick question, or hand over a report due at noon, and Claude takes it from there, even after you’ve closed your laptop. [...] This is rolling out to Pro and Max plans first, in the Claude app on web…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 16 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
This is our reality.
Summary published by Don't Worry About the Vase · 16 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Agent programs in healthcare and life sciences are being built under a different set of constraints than those in most industries. There’s plenty of upside if the constraints can be resolved. Success can mean hours of manual review compressed into minutes, data spread across a dozen systems finally queryable in one place, and clinicians getting time back from documentation. At the same time…
Summary published by LangChain Blog · 16 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Moving from closed to open source models can take weeks, not years. A five-stage playbook: discover, evaluate, adapt, decide, and production.
Summary published by Together.ai · 16 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a similar shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. I pointed GPT-6 Astra Extra High at the documentation and had it build me this web UI for trying out the new models. You can select a model and voice preset, enter an optional system prompt and then start a voice…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 15 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Dario Amodei has a new essay that finally says the thing: We Must Pace the Frontier, naming his call after the Pacing the Frontier letter lab employees signed in July.
Summary published by Don't Worry About the Vase · 14 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use. That cost is per piece of software and doesn't transfer, so as the amount of software goes to infinity, which it will because there's no…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 14 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
How LangChain built a paid media agent to analyze campaign performance, optimize ads, propose changes, and turn marketing data into action.
Summary published by LangChain Blog · 14 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Learn how we built a GTM agent that increased lead conversion by 250% while saving each sales rep 40 hours per month
Summary published by LangChain Blog · 14 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Learn how Connections in Managed Deep Agents securely manage credentials, support per-user OAuth, and let agents act with each caller’s identity.
Summary published by LangChain Blog · 14 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
See how Credit Genie uses OpenWiki to automate repo documentation, reduce tribal knowledge, and give engineers and coding agents searchable codebase context.
Summary published by LangChain Blog · 14 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Release: shot-scraper 1.12 I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool. You can now take a WebP screenshot of a web page like this: shot-scraper https://simonwillison.net -o screenshot.webp --quality 80 The --quality option sets the quality - without that option the WebP file will be lossless. In my experience WebP screenshots are almost always significantly smaller in…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 13 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
The first Millennium Prize, Navier-Stokes, has fallen to AI.
Summary published by Don't Worry About the Vase · 13 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗