AI Hot Daily Brief · 2026-06-14

New models, weights and benchmarks.

Simon WillisonRSS·11d ago64

Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column`

Research: Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` It would be neat if arbitrary SQL queries in Datasette could be rendered with additional information based on which columns from which tables were included in the results. To build that, we would need to be able to look at a SQL query like select users.name, orders.total from users join orders on orders.user_id = users.id and programmatically identify the table.column for each result - navigating not just joins but also more complex syntax like CTEs. I decided to set Claude Code (Opus 4.8, since Fable is currently banned by the US government) on the problem. It found several promising solutions - one using apsw, another that uses ctypes to access the SQLite sqlite3_column_table_name() C function (which is not otherwise exposed to Python), and one using clever interrogation of the output of EXPLAIN. Tags: python, sqlite, datasette

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Product launches and noteworthy updates.

Simon WillisonRSS·11d ago64

Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide

The Pyodide 314.0 release announcement (via Hacker News) includes news I've been looking forward to for a long time: You can now publish Python packages built for Pyodide (or any Python runtime compatible with the PyEmscripten platform defined in PEP 783) directly to PyPI and install them at runtime. Previously, the Pyodide maintainers had to maintain, build, and host over 300 packages ourselves. This created a significant burden on our maintainers and became a major bottleneck for the community, as every new package required manual review. Moving forward, package maintainers can simply build and publish Pyodide wheels to PyPI, just as they do for native wheels on Linux, macOS, or Windows. Here's the PR to PyPI itself supporting this, which landed on April 21st. I adore Pyodide, and have been frustrated in the past by this limitation. It's possible to compile C or Rust extensions to WASM in a wheel file, but before now there was no easy way to distribute them. Thanks to the e

Simon WillisonRSS·11d ago64

luau-wasm 0.1a0

Release: luau-wasm 0.1a0 See Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide for details. Tags: lua, webassembly, pyodide

Funding, policy and market moves.

TechCrunch AIRSS·10d ago71

As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?

Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."

What the major labs and platforms shipped.

TechCrunch AIRSS·11d ago71

As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future

Tech leaders debate whether the Anthropic episode is a wake-up call for India’s AI ambitions.

TechCrunch AIRSS·11d ago71

Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand

Meta starts dismantling its $2 billion Manus acquisition after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.