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Simon Willison’s Weblog 1 month ago 33
Teleport sponsored a quote by Drew Breunig explaining how the release of Fable shifted their thinking about improving coding harnesses versus allocating work across models. He points to models like Opus and lists 5.6 as sufficient for most of the code they needed. As a result, they focused on deciding what tasks run where instead of spending more time on harness and context strategies.
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15 October 2026
The biggest story today isn’t a single model release—it’s the plumbing getting thicker, especially for agentic AI. Nebius says it has struck deals with early-stage UK AI labs as it expands its GPU data-centre and compute offering in the UK, building on a planned £1.7bn build-out and an expanding London hub. That push rhymes with Britain’s British Business Bank, which announced £180m across six AI and deeptech VC funds, including £55m into Intrepid Growth Partners’ AI-focused Fund I, and with Nvidia’s own UK signal: CEO Jensen Huang announced minority-stake plans in five startups—Boltz, Foresight, Hiverge, Prima Mente, and Riverlane.
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