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Cognition AI, maker of the autonomous AI engineer Devin, says Japan is its second-largest user base after the US. In a market where about 70% of IT talent sits on the SIer (system-integrator) side, Japan head Takumi Masai says the aim is not to replace engineers but to expand what they can do.

Developer Simon Willison released the latest edition of his sponsors-only monthly newsletter. It rounds up recent developments across AI models and tooling—spanning GPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Anthropic, and MCP—offering an individual's closely watched view of the fast-moving AI landscape.

Simon Willison highlighted a quote from OpenAI's Greg Brockman noting that many people connect ChatGPT to Slack, yet coworkers dislike being contacted by a colleague's ChatGPT. The remark captures the friction that arises as AI agents start operating inside workplace tools.

Simon Willison released datasette-apps 0.2a0, an update to the Datasette extension. The release includes changes that improve building and editing Datasette Apps directly within Datasette, continuing steady development of the open-source data-exploration ecosystem.

AI code editor Cursor removed cost information from its usage page and CSV export, drawing attention on Hacker News. Users raised concerns about reduced visibility into their spending and usage, criticizing the move as a step back for transparency.

A sponsored piece argues that rising densities and a growing variety of equipment and services are driving complexity in AI data centers. It contends the market needs fully integrated solutions to manage this complexity rather than piecemeal components.

An IEEE Spectrum personal column in which the writer recalls being advised, 25 years ago, to find a 'rabbi'—a mentor—when starting out. The piece reflects on that mentorship and the lessons it offered over a long journalism career.

A Hacker News thread drew attention to BMW displaying Spider-Man advertising on in-car screens. Users criticized in-vehicle ads as harming the driving experience, fueling debate over the growing role of advertising as cars become increasingly software-defined.

NVIDIA describes co-designing model attention with hardware to speed up interactive long-context inference. As agentic and long-context workloads grow, attention takes a larger share of inference time, and the approach targets that bottleneck for faster serving.

On the Oxide and Friends podcast, Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal hosted Simon Willison for a conversation on 'the open weight revolution.' Referencing DeepSeek, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft, they discussed how the rise of open-weight models is reshaping the AI industry.