June 2026 newsletter
Simon Willison's sponsors-only monthly newsletter for June 2026 is out. It covers Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, US export restrictions, GLM-5.2 as best open weights model, Tokenmaxxing being over, Datasette Apps, sqlite-utils, shot-scraper, WASM projects, and other model releases. Available to sponsors at $10/month.
June 2026 newsletter
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3rd July 2026
The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here.
This month:
Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and US export restrictions
GLM-5.2 is the new best open weights model
Tokenmaxxing is so over
Datasette Apps
sqlite-utils and shot-scraper and Datasette
Miscellaneous WASM projects
Other model releases
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Recent articles
Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video - 30th June 2026
Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code - 22nd June 2026
sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions - 21st June 2026
This is a note by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd July 2026.
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