{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "AI News: Simon Willison", "home_page_url": "https://ai-news.ypetit.net/sources/voice-willison/", "feed_url": "https://ai-news.ypetit.net/feed/source/voice-willison.json", "description": "Latest publications from Simon Willison, aggregated by AI News from the official source.", "language": "en", "items": [ { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/battledrones/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/battledrones/", "title": "Simon Willison: Battle Drones - a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer", "summary": "My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones ( play it here ). Unlike my previous experiments , this one is actually fun to play . I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I got there by telling Claude to \"M…", "date_published": "2026-10-20T19:34:19.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/12/python-3-15/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/12/python-3-15/", "title": "Simon Willison: Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11", "summary": "Python 3.15 is here ! Here's the essential What's new in Python 3.15 guide, this year curated by 3.14 and 3.15 release manager Hugo van Kemenade. As someone who builds open source software that works in every supported Python version, I get to say goodbye to Python 3.10 and st…", "date_published": "2026-10-12T18:15:38.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/9/built-using-my-voice/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/9/built-using-my-voice/", "title": "Simon Willison: A new feature for my blog, built using my voice", "summary": "I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature almost entirely using my voice, chatting away to my laptop whi…", "date_published": "2026-10-09T12:54:06.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/7/claude-haiku-5-5/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/7/claude-haiku-5-5/", "title": "Simon Willison: Claude Haiku 5.5", "summary": "As previously promised , here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 . The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago , and was priced at $1/million input and $5/million output - relatively expensive even bac…", "date_published": "2026-10-07T20:56:21.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/", "title": "Simon Willison: We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything", "summary": "Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps . I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say \"after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors\". …", "date_published": "2026-10-03T23:34:02.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-live-blog/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-live-blog/", "title": "Simon Willison: OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog", "summary": "I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the \"creator\" area for the keynote. You are only seeing the long-form articles from my …", "date_published": "2026-09-29T15:55:13.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/2026-in-llms-so-far/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/2026-in-llms-so-far/", "title": "Simon Willison: 2026 in LLMs (so far)", "summary": "On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides …", "date_published": "2026-09-27T23:54:15.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/22/opus-and-sol-and-luna/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/22/opus-and-sol-and-luna/", "title": "Simon Willison: Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war", "summary": "Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are …", "date_published": "2026-09-22T23:46:41.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/21/jev/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/21/jev/", "title": "Simon Willison: Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models", "summary": "Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev , their first example of a new category of model that they are calling \"System One models\" (I'm with Maggie Appleton, I think \"decision models\" is a better name for these). Jev is an interesting variant on the usual LLM format: it still accep…", "date_published": "2026-09-21T23:09:20.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/astra-running-routes/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/astra-running-routes/", "title": "Simon Willison: Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work", "summary": "Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at . Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data. It worked for 27 minutes and produced exactly what I'd asked for, as both an embedded visualization an…", "date_published": "2026-09-12T23:56:42.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/openai-agents-rubygems/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/openai-agents-rubygems/", "title": "Simon Willison: OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May", "summary": "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis ( previously ) last week. This time they're noting that it…", "date_published": "2026-09-12T00:42:25.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/on-navier-stokes/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/on-navier-stokes/", "title": "Simon Willison: Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem", "summary": "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem introduces an impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem , one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that have been subject to a $1,000…", "date_published": "2026-09-08T23:55:12.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/astra-pelicans/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/astra-pelicans/", "title": "Simon Willison: The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting", "summary": "I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I rendered those pelicans in a comparison grid with GPT-5.6 Sol, …", "date_published": "2026-09-04T23:59:05.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/rogue-agent-wikis/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/rogue-agent-wikis/", "title": "Simon Willison: OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis", "summary": "Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. This time it was agents engaged in some sort of web research …", "date_published": "2026-09-04T17:38:48.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] }, { "id": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/claudes-new-system-prompt/", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/claudes-new-system-prompt/", "title": "Simon Willison: Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics", "summary": "Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications ( Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they share not just the current prompts but historic changes to their prompts as…", "date_published": "2026-09-02T14:16:42.000Z", "tags": [ "voices", "Simon Willison" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Simon Willison" } ] } ] }