Where's the raccoon with the ham radio? (ChatGPT Images 2.0)
Simon Willison's 'Where's Waldo' style test reveals GPT Image 2.0's significant improvements in complex scene understanding, instruction following, and detail coherence compared to its predecessor and competitors.
Simon Willison · Apr 22, 2026
Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now
AI security reviews reveal that system security is evolving into an economic game: defenders must spend more computational resources (tokens) than attackers to ensure safety, which unexpectedly boosts the value of open-source projects.
Simon Willison · Apr 15, 2026
From Text to Multimodal Routing: Hardening Vision Signals in vLLM Semantic Router
vLLM Semantic Router discovered that its vision encoder signals were significantly misaligned with the reference model, causing confidently wrong routing decisions, which reveals that signal correctness becomes a critical control-plane requirement as AI systems evolve from processing text to full requests.
vLLM Blog ·
When an AI Godfather Meets the Pope: A Dialogue on the Soul of Technology
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah's Vatican speech reveals the deep dilemmas in AI development: conflicts between commercial incentives and safety ethics, unequal global distribution of benefits, and the ultimate question of technology's impact on human flourishing.
Anthropic News ·
May 28, 2026AnnouncementsAnthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in its Series H funding round, achieving a $965 billion valuation, signaling the AI race has entered a white-hot phase defined by astronomical capital and compute.
Anthropic News ·
May 6, 2026AnnouncementsHigher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
Anthropic has significantly increased Claude's usage limits through massive compute deals with SpaceX and others, signaling that the AI infrastructure race has extended from the ground to space.
Anthropic News ·
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
Anthropic launches Claude Design, an AI-native design tool where users create and refine high-fidelity visual work through conversation, signaling AI's evolution from an assistant to the core engine of the design process.
Anthropic News ·