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The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew

Y Combinator · Sep 01, 2026

Hart Aerospace's electric aircraft is the world's largest by a factor of two.

“It's surreal. Yeah. I came to YC with that 3D printed plane uh that was like this this size and now it's you know 100 foot wingspan hurdling down the runway doing taxi testing.”
Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!

Simon Willison · Sep 01, 2026

Python 3.15 release candidate 2 is out, final release due October 2026

“We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to prepare their projects for 3.15 during this phase, and publish Python 3.15 wheels on PyPI to be ready for the final release of 3.15.0”
Can AI Learn Mathematical Intuition?

a16z · Sep 01, 2026

AI models can solve hard math problems when given human-provided intuitive hints

“Maybe some of that understanding resides in model weights. To me, that's like pretty unsatisfying.”
Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Sep 01, 2026

Astra is OpenAI's first model to hit Critical cybersecurity threshold under Preparedness Framework

“Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.”
GLM 5.3: Powerful AI Is Becoming Almost Free

Two Minute Papers · Sep 01, 2026

GLM 5.3 Flash delivers near-frontier AI performance for free via open weights.

“I think within this year, in a few months, Fable might be surpassed by free AI systems.”
Introducing wrapture

Simon Willison · Aug 31, 2026

Expert Python author built entire library with AI, explicitly rejecting vibe coding

“Every line of code and documentation in wrapture was written by an AI assistant working under my direction. I want to be upfront about that, and equally upfront about what it was not. This was not vibe coding, where a one-shot prompt produces a pile of generated code and the person driving hopes for the best because they lack the knowledge to judge what came back.”