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datasette 1.0a31

Simon Willison · May 29, 2026

Datasette 1.0a31 adds write query execution and stored queries for permissioned users.

“Datasette now offers users with the necessary permissions the ability to both execute write queries against their database and to save stored queries (renamed from "canned queries") both privately and for use by other members of their Datasette instance.”
Run Step 3.7 Flash on NVIDIA GPUs with Enterprise-Ready Multimodal AI

NVIDIA Developer Blog · May 29, 2026

StepFun's Step 3.7 Flash 198B multimodal model is now available on NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure

“AI applications are moving beyond text generation to multimodal systems that can perceive, search, and reason across images, documents, video, and language in real time”
Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement"

Simon Willison · May 28, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8 reduces hallucinations by being four times less likely to let code flaws pass unremarked

“Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. There's still more to be done: we're working on developing and releasing models that provide many of the same capabilities as Opus at a lower cost.”
Evaluating Deep Agents using LangSmith on AWS

AWS Machine Learning Blog · May 28, 2026

LangSmith on AWS provides five evaluation patterns for deep agents in production

“Validating AI agent behavior before production is one of the hardest problems in applied AI.”
markdown-svg-renderer

Simon Willison · May 28, 2026

Simon Willison released a Markdown renderer with inline SVG code block visualization.

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWS

AWS Machine Learning Blog · May 28, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS

“Opus 4.8 can hold a plan across stages, better track what it has done and what remains, and adjust course when something breaks rather than surfacing an error and stopping.”
Why was open-sourcing TypeScript so important?

Microsoft Developer (Build) · May 28, 2026

TypeScript's open-source strategy and framework collaboration made it a better language

“collaborating very closely with the most popular JavaScript frameworks actually made TypeScript a better programming language because we had rapid feedback cycles”