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Simon Willison 2 days ago
Datasette released version 1.0a37, continuing its development toward a stable 1.0 release. The project has accumulated 1,526 monthly briefing subscribers as of July 14, 2026. Simon Willison is seeking sponsorship at $10 per month to fund continued development and curated LLM news digests.
The New Stack 2 days ago
Thira, a startup founded by Apptio's Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer, is building AI agents to automate IT back-office processes that CIOs currently handle manually across multiple systems. The company raised $21 million in seed funding led by Madrona and has signed ten design partners ahead of a fall launch, initially targeting two repetitive IT processes out of six or seven identified. Thira differentiates itself through trust features like audit trails and rollbacks, offering semi-autonomous and fully autonomous modes, and plans to integrate with existing enterprise platforms rather than replace them.
