1. May 2026
  2. Why China's open-model lead is about process, not the models (interconnects.ai)
    AI · · May 12, 2026 · Open Models · China
  3. A model says 13 percent automation is enough to tip growth into the explosive zone (importai.substack.com)
    AI · · May 11, 2026 · AI Research · Forecasting
  4. GitLab restructures around the agent thesis, and Simon Willison checks the incentive (simonwillison.net)
    AI · · May 11, 2026 · Agents · Software
  5. Ask Claude for HTML instead of Markdown and the explanation gets better (simonwillison.net)
    Engineering · · May 8, 2026 · Claude Code · Anthropic
  6. Ai2's EMO trains a mixture of experts you can run at one-eighth size (huggingface.co)
    AI · · May 8, 2026 · LLM Architecture · Open Models
  7. AlphaEvolve moves from research demo to a production tool, with real numbers (deepmind.google)
    AI · · May 7, 2026 · Google DeepMind · Research
  8. Mozilla says it fixed 423 Firefox security bugs in one month with AI help (simonwillison.net)
    Security · · May 7, 2026 · Mozilla · AI · Claude
  9. Notes from inside China's AI labs: less ego, more students, build don't buy (interconnects.ai)
    AI · · May 7, 2026 · China · Open Models
  10. Anthropic takes all of SpaceX's Colossus 1 compute, raises Claude Code limits (anthropic.com)
    Infrastructure · · May 6, 2026 · Anthropic · Compute · AI
  11. Simon Willison's discomfort: vibe coding and real engineering are merging (simonwillison.net)
    Engineering · · May 6, 2026 · Agents · Software