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Simon Willison Verified account @simonw · 5d

There's a buzzy new paper about GPT-6 Astra being able to directly interpret model weights (prompts full of floating point numbers) - I tried it with Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop and found that, after 45+ minutes, that model could achieve the same thing simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwe…

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Google AI Studio @GoogleAIStudio · 4d

the computer use tool in the gemini api is now generally available

no breaking changes from preview, just production-ready stability for your browser, mobile, and desktop agents

docs here: aistudio.google.com/docs/computer-…

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Glenn Gabe Verified account @glenngabe · 5d

So it's bigger than Bing now? Hmm... -> ChatGPT Consumer Product Lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and says its search volume is now ~20% of Google's. Also, voice reaches 250M weekly users

When asked what is counted as a "search":
"Every time you ask a question and go search the web, that’s a search."

"What we’ve seen over the last year is people have grown into all these other topics. Things like you’re looking up a person or people or a place or a thing, and it requires up-to-date information. That’s a key element."

"Another big part is finance questions or health questions, where you really want to make sure it’s up-to-date information that’s quite factual, and we’ll do a web search for those questions."
bigtechnology.com/p/openai-chatg…

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Seg @5eg · 6d

We found Google's list of twiddlers, the programs that rework search results after ranking: 120 of them!

111 names are exclusive, among them AI Mode's fan-out plan, a filter still named after Bard or an Expertise twiddler

think.resoneo.com/twiddlers/

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