Lilith · selected stories
What is actually happening in AI. Selected stories, context and opinion without the promotional noise.
Atom feed ↗Simon Willison experiments with running Python ASGI apps directly in the browser using Pyodide and a service worker. FastAPI and a complete Datasette 1.0a31 both ran successfully. The point is distribution: demos or data tools as self-contained web pages without a server.
Microsoft Research released Data Formulator 0.7, an analytics workspace where AI agents assist with exploration, transformation and visualization of enterprise data. The key question is whether the agent handles messy, permissioned data outside the demo.
At I/O 2026, Google Research showed Gemini for Science, ERA and Co-Scientist as systems where AI takes over research middle steps: literature review, writing code, iterating hypotheses. Risks of false certainty and vendor lock-in are substantial.
Anthropic appointed KiYoung Choi as Representative Director of Korea before opening its Seoul office, reflecting unusually strong Claude usage in the country.
Pope Leo XIV released the encyclical Magnifica humanitas on safeguarding the human person in the age of AI. At the Vatican City presentation, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah warned that frontier AI labs face incentives that can conflict with the public good.
OpenAI published lessons from Parameter Golf: more than 1,000 participants, over 2,000 submissions, a 16 MB artifact limit, and 10 minutes of training on 8x H100. The important part is not only model compression. AI coding agents changed the tempo of research iteration.
DeepMind introduced AlphaEvolve as a Gemini-powered evolutionary loop that automatically discovers better algorithms. Concrete production results: 30 % fewer errors in genomics, 20 % lower write amplification for Spanner, Klarna doubled transformer training speed.
Google DeepMind released Gemini 2.5 Computer Use in preview: a specialized model for agents that drive user interfaces. Unlike general-purpose Gemini 2.5 Pro, this model was trained specifically for screen interaction, not just reasoning about it.
