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Simon Willison’s Weblog 3 weeks ago 45
Kākāpō Party created a pixel-art animation and 15s video for a WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America keynote by using Claude (via HTML generation) and then running Claude Code with Playwright to record the result. The video length was set to 15s by prompting the local Claude Code session accordingly. The keynote final slide can now embed the recorded video instead of relying on the interactive HTML page.
Trending Topics 3 weeks ago 28
Temu’s paid “partnership ads” on Instagram and Facebook were found to be largely run through fake creator accounts across Europe. Temu spent about €830 million ($962 million) on these partnership ads over 16 months through April. After the findings were made public, Temu shut down much of the network, with 54 of the top 100 accounts stopping ads and overall ad volume nearly halving.
Exponential View 3 weeks ago 20
The article argues that standardization in literary education and LLMs can flatten creativity by rewarding sameness over novel form. It cites the growth of US MFA programs from 15 in 1975 to 250 by 2012. As a result, downstream writing and outputs become more homogenized, making it harder to find authors who expand the canon.
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18 October 2026
The day’s biggest AI thread wasn’t model quality—it was accountability, in public. Anthropic announced it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, with the option to add 2% for every 50% increase in company value above a baseline, effectively steering more of its long-term upside toward mission-driven giving. It’s pairing that financial structure with operational one: METR, an outside AI watchdog, now gets “employee-like” access, including an embedded team at Anthropic’s office with access to hardware and internal systems for risk evaluation. It’s a rare instance where governance isn’t just a policy PDF; it looks like an audit workflow with teeth.
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