Saturday, May 30, 2026

14 articles

Simon Willison
1 min read

How we contain Claude across products

How we contain Claude across products A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly documented, and in the absence of detailed documentation it's hard to know how much I can trust them. Anthropic just published a fantastic overview of how their various...

Simon Willison
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I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline I've seen a lot of posts on forums from people threatening to quit their careers over AI. This is not one of those: Chad Whitacre is taking concrete steps, starting with this typewritten, scanned letter I'm retiring from tech. Well, "retiring" is euphemistic....

The Verge
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How one founder’s bet on ‘the old school web’ is paying off

Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He's a former engineer at Meta and an experienced tech founder who in 2022 sold his last venture - an e-commerce tool for...

The Verge
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AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk

Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: "Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white women will stay 13...

Simon Willison
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Quoting Daniel Jalkut

My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it. — Daniel Jalkut, via John Gruber Tags: ai

The Verge
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The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you

I haven't seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time - that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bankers have their way, you are going to be their bagholder. Lots of the top-line […]