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Thursday, October 8, 2026

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Design

AI: incidents by design

When safety is optional, and capability is urgent, incidents are not accidents. They are what we (consciously or not) designed and built for. AI makes headlines almost every day. And most days, they read like science fiction. Except they are not. Last year…

UX Collective Patrizia Bertini
Tools

Quoting Ben Affleck

I've always been kind of into computers since I was young. And then when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. And the visual effects workflow for many years has included machine learning. So I can…

Simon Willison
Artificial intelligence

Claude Haiku 5.5

As previously promised , here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 . The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago , and was priced at $1/million input and $5/million output - relatively…

Simon Willison