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    AgentVet Weekly — August 24, 2026

    August 24, 2026

    From the founder

    What's jumping out at me this week is how fast "the user is an agent" went from thought experiment to line item. Stripe just paid $8B for OpenRouter on that exact bet, and Cloudflare spent its whole Agents Week rebuilding the plumbing so agents can actually crawl and read the web. Software built for clicking is getting rebuilt for reading, and that's the whole reason Agent-Ready exists.

    Simon Willison

    ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale

    ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and consulting to help your site increase its presence in replies to prompts inside too

    Simon Willison

    Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

    Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and just one point behind GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) - that GLM is 753B and that DeepSeek is 1.7T parameters , and Luna is size unknown but presumab

    Simon Willison

    llm 0.33

    Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2 . #1608 , #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix for this yesterday, but this is the more comprehensive fix. llm embed and llm emb

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