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Simon Willison’s Weblog 1 day ago 11
Tool: Tree Appreciator reports that Claude Opus 5.5 Max generated a Three.js “spot-the-difference” tree game after being prompted to make it fun and beautiful. It took 3 hours and 7 minutes to produce the working game. The result is a playable game with music, animation, and achievements built from algorithmically generated trees.
Anthropic 22
Anthropic updated Claude’s election safeguards ahead of the 2026 US midterms by analyzing how people use Claude for politics and elections and by adding ways to surface official voting information and results in-chat. The company analyzed 250,000 conversations over a one-week period, finding elections or voting come up in about 0.51% of all US Claude.ai conversations and direct “whom or what to vote for” requests appear in about 0.01%. Claude will now draw state-specific official voting details from Democracy Works and show up-to-date results on election night, while Anthropic strengthens bias testing, misuse classifiers, and enforcement actions to reduce political abuse.
Felix Rieseberg 2 days ago 45
Claude’s creator explains a four-part framework for using AI models more ambitiously across Speed, Altitude, Depth, and Range, with examples drawn from using Claude for tasks like maintaining crash-free apps and improving business reviews.
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16 October 2026
AI finance took center stage: the IMF warns that the build-out’s most immediate market risk isn’t model capability, it’s leverage. In a review of 14 publicly disclosed deals since 2023, the fund found hyperscalers backing AI with about $650 billion in debt against roughly $300 billion in equity, while committing to spend $1.4 trillion going forward. The prescription is blunt—limit sector leverage and liquidity risk through sector-specific capital requirements and constraints on bank lending concentration—because when funding rests on borrowed money, sentiment swings turn into funding crunches.
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