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AImodels, tools, papers

Anthropic's Claude Code Finally Auto-Resumes When Usage Limits Hit

Claude Code desktop gets a native auto-continue checkbox that resumes paused sessions automatically when your usage limit resets.

AlphaSignal·Thu 23:28

OpenAI's Computer History Watches Your Mac So You Stop Re-explaining Yourself

ChatGPT's Computer History replaces the screenshot-based Chronicle preview with an event-driven system that tracks your work across apps and websites without ever capturing your screen.

AlphaSignal·Thu 22:15

Databricks' Smart Routing Cuts AI Coding Costs by 56% Without Sacrificing Quality

Databricks' Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway automatically picks the cheapest model per coding task, cutting costs 30–56% without touching developer workflows.

AlphaSignal·Thu 21:18

Factory Launches Agent Effectiveness to Prove Its Droids Actually Ship Faster

Factory's new Agent Effectiveness dashboard links Droid AI sessions to cycle time, work intent, and shipped artifacts -- giving engineering leaders their first real ROI signal

AlphaSignal·Thu 20:45

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" ( previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information dense and well worth…

Simon Willison·08 Aug

One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5

Back in 2022 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in Claude Code for…

Simon Willison·05 Aug

New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging

I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider tools, redesigned…

Simon Willison·05 Aug

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to the MCP spec since it first…

Simon Willison·01 Aug

Tech & dealsthe wider industry, mergers, money

Sources: the CFTC has launched a probe into prediction markets' "mention markets", prompting Kalshi to remove bets on word choices from sports-related offerings (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Federal regulators have launched a review of so-called “mention markets” on prediction market sites …

Techmeme·05:15

Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, with a later Middle East expansion (Bloomberg)

Pony AI Inc. said it plans to deploy more than 2,000 robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber Technologies Inc. …

Techmeme·04:30

A profile of Amy Kremer, a pro-Trump activist who helped organize the January 6 rally and currently chairs the grassroots anti-data center group Humans First (Veronica Irwin/Transformer)

Amy Kremer's resume makes her loyalty to Trump impossible to question. Humans First is banking that will help mobilize the right

Techmeme·03:55

Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to incidents like the rogue agent hack (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

OpenAI's rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

Techmeme·03:00

Applied Materials reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $9.12B, vs. $8.99B est., net income up 43% to $2.54B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)

The company is looking to ramp up its manufacturing capacity to meet continued semiconductor solutions demand

Techmeme·01:55

Charter receives final state approval to buy Cox for $21.9B after making concessions to California regulators, including low-cost internet for some households (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

Cable and broadband providers receive regulatory clearance from California after agreeing to some concessions on affordability

Techmeme·01:45

Epic v. Apple: Apple proposes commissions on US linked-out purchases of 15% for standard apps, 10% for partner programs and renewals, 5% for Small Business apps (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Apple has submitted its proposal for the fees it should be allowed to charge for purchases made outside of the App Store system in the Epic Games case.

Techmeme·01:10

Magyarországtelex

Ezekért érdemes moziba menni augusztus 14-től 21-ig

Itt a következő hét napra szóló Telex Diszpó.

Telex·05:29

Végre nem nőnek a lakásárak. De miért?

Idén már nem Magyarországon nőttek a leggyorsabban az ingatlanárak európai összehasonlításban. Trendfordulóról van-e szó, és ha igen, mi áll ennek a hátterében?

Telex·04:59

Észtországban nem négy évszak van, hanem öt

Az ötödik évszak tél után, de még tavasz előtt köszönt be, és hatalmas árterületté változtatja Európa legnagyobb érintetlen tőzegláprendszerét.

Telex·04:58

Baka Andrást kevesen ismerik, de azonnal elnyerte a tiszás szavazók támogatását

A köztársasági elnöknek megválasztott jogászt sokan nem ismerik a 21 Kutatóközpont kutatása szerint. A Telex megbízásából készült felmérésben azt is megkérdezték az emberektől, ők kit jelöltek volna.

Telex·04:58

Az izlandi és a lett bajnok írta ki a Győrt a nemzetközi kupából

A magyar bajnok sem a Víkingur Reykjavikot, sem a lett FC Rigát nem tudta hazai pályán legyőzni.

Telex·Thu 22:59

Függetlenebbé teszik az agrárkamarát, megjelentek az új összeférhetetlenségi szabályok

Megjelent a törvény a részletekről.

Telex·Thu 22:55

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