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Simon Willison’s Weblog 1 week ago 48 ● 2 sources
ttok 0.4 updated the CLI token-counting tool, fixing a Click warning and modernizing CI while adding a --list-models command using OpenAI’s tiktoken library. The release adds a --list-models option to show available models. As a result, the tool is easier to run via uvx and can display model names instead of only counting tokens.
Product Hunt 1 week ago 32
Porch launched a tool that turns Claude Code and Codex sessions into project-based daily, weekly, and monthly Markdown summaries. It publishes those summaries for your work without needing a Porch account, and it tracks tokens and API-equivalent costs. As a result, you can review session status across terminals/editors, identify which tasks need attention, and save summaries to Obsidian or any folder.
TechCrunch 1 week ago 21 ● 2 sources
Ben Affleck went viral after describing his knowledge of AI and its uses in filmmaking, including neural networks and training concepts from recent interview clips. The article says he sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix for a reported $587 million earlier this year. As a result, attention shifts to his machine-learning approach to post-production and dataset creation, and the focus turns to responsible, “additive” AI rather than AI replacing film work.
Trending Topics 1 week ago 27
Ecosia has dropped Mistral as its A.I. supplier and switched to open models, including Chinese ones, citing lower quality and server overloads. Ecosia’s A.I. lag was described as about a year behind the competition. The switch is also reported to have roughly halved Ecosia’s A.I. service costs while improving performance.
Product Hunt 1 week ago 32 ● 2 sources
Earnote launched as an AI notetaking app that transcribes lectures and other speech and turns it into structured notes with tasks, flashcards, and a PDF study sheet. It uses Whisper and writes the notes on-device on iPhone 15 Pro and later. The launch adds a free, open-source workflow on iPhone/iPad/Mac with no account, ads, or subscription (with an optional one-time Pro upgrade).
Trending Topics 1 week ago 2 ● 3 sources
Nous Research closed a Series B funding round to support its open-source AI agent Hermes. Robot Ventures led the $90 million round at a $1.5 billion valuation. The extra capital is intended to expand paid enterprise hosting and support while keeping the Hermes software open.
MarkTechPost 1 week ago 17
Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-late, a pair of ColBERT-style multimodal embedding models that retrieve text, images, and rendered PDF pages from a shared embedding space. The 9B model scored 92.4% on MADQA, while a 0.6B query model can search a 9B index to recover about half the quality gap at the 0.6B query cost. The update changes deployment by making both models available on Hugging Face under the MIT license for self-hosting, with a hosted API planned but not yet live.
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18 October 2026
AI oversight stopped being a PowerPoint exercise today and got hands-on. Anthropic said it has given outside AI watchdog METR “employee-like” access, embedding a METR team in its offices with access to hardware and internal systems so risk evaluation can run closer to the actual model and infrastructure—not just post-hoc reports. That trend of tightening control shows up elsewhere: U.S. banks and brokerages are blocking outside AI agents from logging in and moving money, with Charles Schwab reporting it blocks agents “in the tens and twenties each week,” while routing limited balance viewing and analysis through Schwab’s own MCP servers. Even the courts are joining in—at least eight states sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT helps “cyberhacking agents” and misleads adults, raising the stakes for how tightly companies must constrain agent behavior.
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