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datasette 1.0a31

Release: <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a31">datasette 1.0a31</a> Another significant alpha release, with two new headline features. <blockquote> Datasette now offers users with the necessary permissions the ability to both execute write queries against their database and to save stored queries (renamed from "canned queries") both privately and for use by other members of their Datasette instance. </blockquote> There's more detail in <a href="https://datasette.io/blog/2026/sql-write-queries

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Anthropic's run-rate revenue hits $47 billion

The most interesting thing about <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h">Anthropic's $65B Series H announcement</a> is this line (emphasis mine): <blockquote> Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers, and our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month. </blockquote> Anthropic have made a bit of a habit of sharing their "run-rate revenue" in this kind of announcement, which is an annualized projection of their current revenue - typically calculated by taking the most recent month an

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Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler

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markdown-svg-renderer

Tool: <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer">markdown-svg-renderer</a> A slightly customized Markdown rendering tool with special treatment for fenced code SVG blocks - it both renders the image and provides a tab for switching to the code view. You can paste in Markdown or give it a URL to a CORS-enabled Markdown file or Gist. <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2Ffea4f7546626d627862dc241a4e3a86a">Here's an example</a> where it loads a Markdown file full of LLM peli

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How a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium

Researchers say they’ve found a new way to extract lithium, a crucial metal used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and energy storage arrays. This new technique could be more environmentally friendly and cheaper than existing ones. The research was published today in Science, and a startup called Rock Zero is working to commercialize the process. “At scale, we believe this will be the lowest-cost way of sourcing lithium in the world,” says Yet-Ming Chiang, one of the study authors, who is an MIT professor and a serial entrepreneur behind climate tech companies includin

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