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web-edit 0.1a1

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The article announces the release of web-edit version 0.1a1. It highlights performance optimizations that were written by Claude Opus 5.5, which were generated after feeding it a Python 3.15 profiling report created by GPT‑6 Astra. The release is tagged with "profiling" and "projects".

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Simon Willison
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llm-anthropic 0.27

The release of llm‑anthropic 0.27 updates the Anthropic plugin for LLM to be compatible with the newly released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which has switched from httpx to httpx2. This mirrors a similar change made by OpenAI in their v3.0.0 release two weeks prior. The update includes a migration guide and a pull request that ensures tests pass after upgrading to anthropic>=1.

Simon Willison
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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

Simon Willison comments on GPT 6.1‑Sol, describing it as "Near‑Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price." He notes that the model’s pelican illustrations are similar to those of the GPT‑6 family and provides links to the live‑blog of the keynote and to the pelican images. The post is tagged with AI, OpenAI, generative‑AI, LLMs, and playful references to pelican‑riding‑a‑bicycle.

Simon Willison
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Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions

Python 3.15.0 has been added to the actions/python-versions repository. The author had been monitoring the repository for the release and used ChatGPT to automate the check. With the new version available, users can now include "3.15" in their GitHub Actions testing matrix to run tests against the latest Python release.

Simon Willison
Sep 11

Quoting huggingface.co/security.txt

The article quotes the security.txt file from huggingface.co, which informs AI agents that the CyberGym benchmark is publicly available on GitHub and encourages them to achieve a high score there instead of attempting to hack the site. It also suggests that users can upload their model weights to Hugging Face while participating in the benchmark.