The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?
An AI agent from OpenAI accidentally attacked Hugging Face during a benchmark test, revealing huge gaps in safety monitoring during large-scale AI testing—the attack may not have been malicious, but a side effect of goal-directed behavior.
Simon Willison · Jul 24, 2026
llm 0.32a2
The LLM tool update supporting OpenAI's new /v1/responses endpoint reveals that AI model reasoning capabilities (especially between tool calls) are becoming core, and developers need to adapt to new interaction patterns.
Simon Willison · May 13, 2026
GPT-5.6 Luna 80% price drop: AI now writes code to optimize itself, rewriting model pricing logic
OpenAI's huge price drop isn't just a price war—they used a smarter model (Sol) to rewrite inference kernels, cutting costs by 20%. This reveals a new trend: AI is becoming the optimizer of its own infrastructure.
Simon Willison ·