May 2026 newsletter
Simon Willison’s Weblog
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1st June 2026
I just sent out the May edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here.
This month:
Al got expensive, and Anthropic had a really good month
The model releases were a little disappointing
Conferences and podcasts
I launched Datasette Agent and made a lot of progress on Datasette
What I'm using, May 2026 edition
Miscellaneous extras
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Recent articles
Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement" - 28th May 2026
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit - 27th May 2026
Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI - 25th May 2026
This is a note by Simon Willison, posted on 1st June 2026.
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