August 31, 2026
From the founder
The story I can't stop thinking about this week is WebMCP. Google and Microsoft published it under the W3C in February, and Chrome already ships an early version: a site registers typed tools an agent can call directly, book a demo, add to cart, check a claim, instead of an agent clicking through it like a person. Agent-Ready is about a site being read correctly. WebMCP is the next layer: a site being acted on correctly. Same shift, one step further, and most businesses haven't noticed it's already started.
Simon Willison
Release: llm-anthropic 0.27 This release of the Anthropic plugin for LLM mainly provides compatibility with the recently released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which switches from httpx to httpx2 . OpenAI made the same change in their v3.0.0 release two weeks ago. Anthropic pr
Simon Willison
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its effectiveness. Johann Reh
Latent Space
[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro (Latent Space) — read the full story for details.
Hugging Face Blog
Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers (Hugging Face Blog) — read the full story for details.
TLDR AI
OpenAI Jalapeño 🌶️, Perplexity Portable Computer 💻, Claude combines memory 🧠 (TLDR AI) — read the full story for details.
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