I heard ya'll like cute little animated vector characters?! opacity.com -> zoah.com↗

bb 0.41.0 is out. Fable 5.1 in the Claude Code picker. Also: scheduled sends, a concurrency cap, and the mobile app is now the web app in a native shell. npx bb-app@latest getbb.app/changelog↗

if you are non-technical and your github looks like this I want to be friends and I want to hire you↗

I'd always thought AI was terrible at design, but after reading today's 🤯 post by @anshuc, I realized I was just doing it wrong. "AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled. LLMs are trained to be next-token predictors: they look at a sequence…↗

Muse Voice Transcribe is MSL's first real-time audio perception model -- rolling out today. SOTA in streaming speech-to-text, it handles speaker diarization, and endpointing natively in a single model.↗

Introducing Atlas: The world's first multimodal world model that generates image and video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D. Model the world, move the camera, and simulate space & time.↗

Introducing WebMCP + agent-browser The web is becoming agent-native 𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝-𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚜𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚖𝚌𝚙 <𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝|𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚘𝚔𝚎> → Discover & call tools → For missing tools, falls back to browser automation↗

Btw we open sourced the core infra piece that makes these self improving loops possible. tangleml.com↗

As we prepare to release Astra, we’re focused on making increasingly capable AI safe and broadly accessible. Astra represents a significant advance in cybersecurity capability, reaching the Critical threshold under our Preparedness Framework. We're previewing how we evaluated t…↗

AI data labeling company @AfterQuery is now valued at $3.2 billion, sources say, 10xing its valuation since April. That would make it the fastest YC company to go from inception -> unicorn. Oh, and its founders are 22 and 23 years old. forbes.com/sites/annatong…↗

Introducing Agentic Video in the Gemini API, a new way to process long videos which reduces token consumption by up to 88% while also increasing quality. This can be controlled easily in the API on a per video basis, available with our newest models like 3.7 Flash!↗

Fable 5.1 is a beast at many things but one thing in particular I have been having a ton of fun with is generating videos through code. For this one I gave it a picture of a property lot. It designed a house for the lot, rendered it, and produced a cinematic walkthrough.↗

🚰 SYSTEM PROMPT LEAK 🚰 Here's the Fable 5.1 system prompt!! 🙌 Coming in at a WHOPPING 270,000+ characters, this prompt is definitely on the longer side. There have been a handful of notable edits/additions since Opus 5's version. FULL PROMPT: github.com/elder-plinius/… Acc…↗

We’re introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. They're the world’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work.↗

53.5 million tokens per second are moving through OpenRouter’s top 20 apps right now. I scraped their public usage pages to show which models are being used bentossell.com/realtime-tokens↗

My second conversation with Sarah Guo (@saranormous), founder of Conviction. Sarah's been early to many of this generation's defining companies, and is constantly ranked at the top of the managers LPs most want to invest with. She knows the small group of 250 people pushing the…↗

tree menu interaction ⎯⟡°↗

I'm taking the working HTML prototype of a first-gen iPod from our last article and turning it into a 1:1 iPod app for iOS, plus a Mac app that controls your Apple Music library. Let’s see how close we can get by morning.↗

Your AGENTS.md is holding you back [Context engineering](posthog.com/newsletter/context-engineering?utm_source=posthog-newsletter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=agents-md) used to focus on adding information that base models lacked: But then the models kept getting better. Now, t…↗

We FOIA’d every San Francisco dog license from the last decade: 82,070 license events, 51,379 dogs, 13,525 names, 412 breeds, 26 neighborhoods. Then we turned it into a data story: The Dogs of San Francisco.↗

Coming very soon: A native app for NYC. Find out what's getting built, what the permits are, and much, much more.↗

I wrote about how AI agents are starting to spontaneously coordinate in complex (and very risky) ways in the Hugging Face Incident, but also about why we need AIs to reach out to humans more for decisions and input as agentic work becomes more automated. …↗

I went down the rabbit hole: Anthropic is already being sued over exactly this. And the $200 plan really only provides only around 2x the weekly usage of the $100 plan Here is where the confusion comes from. Anthropic’s pricing page says: “Choose 5x or 20x more usage than Pro.”…↗

One of the great challenges for British start-ups has been selling to our own Government - until now. Gov procurement has often discriminated against innovative new British companies. @UKSovereignAI has set out to change that, and after a lot of work, we've just launched our rap…↗

I built a website for my new side project: Txt — a minimalist text editor for macOS. adrien.website/txt/↗

wrapped up a new personal website this weekend↗

INSPECT (2026) A short film about @tryramp's own coding agent, now writing three out of every four PRs. linear.app/customers/ramp↗

GPU World: A story competition from Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and me. The AI future is unevenly distributed. What would the world look like with AI broadly diffused, such as if we had one GPU per person? 1000-5000 words, fiction or non-fiction. $100K in total prizes. …↗

Today, we're sharing new research on Solaris, our first Interface World Model. Solaris is a new kind of operating system that generates interactive interfaces frame by frame, in real time, with no code. We find that Solaris outperforms frontier LLMs when generating new interface…↗

Here's my attempt at explaining what ChatGPT Work can actually do - it's a deeply confusing but extremely powerful tool with a whole lot of useful features that aren't available in regular ChatGPT simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/un…↗