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<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/micropython-wasm/releases/tag/0.1a2">micropython-wasm 0.1a2</a></p> <p>I added a CLI to <code>micropython-wasm</code> (<a href="https://github.com/simonw/micropython-wasm/issues/7">issue #7</a>), inspired by the first draft of <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbox/">the blog entry</a> when I realized it would be a g

<p>I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I've been looking for. I've released it as an alpha package called <a href="https://github.com/simonw/micropython-wasm">micropython-wasm</a>, and I'm using it for a code execution sandbox plugin for <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent">Datasette Agent</a> called &l

<p><strong><a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode">OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode</a></strong></p> OpenAI first teased this <a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-lockdown-mode-and-elevated-risk-labels-in-chatgpt/">in February</a>, but now it's live and "rolling out to eligible personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Business accounts":</p> <blockquote> <p>Lockdo

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/May_AI_Recap_still.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are Google’s latest AI updates from May 2026

Right after a new Executive Order seems like an excellent time to offer OpenAI’s new document: Democratic Governance of Frontier AI: A Blueprint For A Federal Framework.

Data Management

Home to cutting-edge sovereign AI infrastructure and robotics innovators, as well as one of the world’s most passionate gaming communities, South Korea is one of the world’s centers of AI. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is in Seoul this week to meet the partners and builders behind that work. Monday, June 8, 10:00 a.m. […]

Health & Bioscience

This was the week of Claude Opus 4.8.

June’s forecast with GeForce NOW: 100% chance of gaming. GeForce NOW is lining up new adventures for the month, from big-name blockbusters to quirky indies ready for the spotlight. Members can dive into fresh worlds, squad up in new playlists and discover “just one more run” favorites — all streaming from the cloud, no downloads […]

Learn how Endava is using AI agents, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Codex to accelerate software delivery, automate workflows, and build an AI-native culture across the enterprise.

ChatGPT introduces a new memory system to better remember preferences, keeping context fresh and relevant across conversations.

An action plan for AI-powered biological resilience

Louisiana has become the 22nd U.S. state to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law—and the third this year following Oklahoma and Alabama—after Governor Landry signed the Louisiana Data Privacy Act (LDPA) (SB 386) on May 29. Overall, this is a fairly standard state privacy law that follows the Washington Privacy Act framework apart from the law’s […]

Quantum computers promise to one day solve problems beyond the most powerful supercomputers imaginable. But it’s often underappreciated how much classical computing it takes just to operate these machines. As qubit counts rise, innovations in this supporting infrastructure will be essential if they’re to live up to their promise.To prepare for the scale of quantum computers the industry is working toward, many companies are also gearing up the classical hardware, and software, required to suppor

On May 28, 2026, the 5th Circuit granted a stay on the preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Texas’s App Store Accountability Act (ASAA)—meaning the law is now in effect while litigation on the merits continues. In 2025, Utah, Texas, and Louisiana enacted App Store Accountability Acts (ASAAs) which impose novel and significant age assurance obligations […]

Climate & Sustainability

New graduates’ careers are unfolding in an era when AI is not optional. The most successful engineers treat artificial intelligence as leverage, not competition.Here are seven tips to help keep young professionals in demand no matter how quickly the field’s tools evolve.1. Master the fundamentals first. AI tools can help you code, but you still need strong fundamentals in:Data structures and algorithms for problem-solving.Operating systems, databases, and networking for system-level understandin

Last week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday.

What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before.  What makes an autonomous vehicle system safe isn’t just that it can reason through a situation — it’s that […]

At CVPR, NVIDIA is unveiling new physical AI agent skills that help researchers and developers speed the development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision AI systems. The core challenge in physical AI research isn’t simply developing stronger models. It’s building a full workflow around them — reconstructing real-world scenes, generating edge-case scenarios, training policies, evaluating […]

GPT-Rosalind advances life sciences research with enhanced biological reasoning, medicinal chemistry expertise, genomics analysis, and experimental workflow capabilities.

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See how Wasmer used Codex with GPT-5.5 to build a Node.js runtime for the edge, accelerating development 10x to 20x and shipping in weeks instead of months.

Accelerated computing has revolutionized industrial engineering, compressing simulation times from weeks to hours.  Today’s remaining challenges sit in the end-to-end workflow surrounding the simulations: computer-aided design, meshing, simulation setup and debugging, as well as post-processing and generating summary reports of these processes.  At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX, NVIDIA and more than a dozen engineering software […]

The tech company announces its new Majorana 2 chip.

The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for long-running reasoning. NVIDIA and Microsoft are bringing that full stack to developers across Windows devices, Azure cloud and local deployments. At Microsoft Build, NVIDIA […]

You need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.

As AI systems become more capable, a lot of resources and effort are being put toward measuring their abilities. Researchers look at technical evaluation metrics, subject AIs to reasoning tests, track their throughput, and much more. But there’s one key metric that often gets overlooked, and it’s arguably the most important of all: What is AI doing to humans?Imran Khan leads psychosocial evaluation of AI at the nonprofit Center for Humane Technology. In a recent essay published on the organizati

Financial institutions have spent years building AI: fraud models, credit models, recommendation engines and risk systems. While this sprawl of task-specific models has been effective, it’s also constrained by siloed systems.  Siloed systems prevent institutions from developing a unified understanding of consumers’ financial behavior. As enterprise datasets keep growing, so does the gap between what […]

Agentic AI is getting physical. At COMPUTEX on Tuesday, NVIDIA announced NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 and NVIDIA NemoClaw support on NVIDIA Jetson. JetPack 7.2 brings agentic AI skills, Yocto project support, NVIDIA CUDA 13 on NVIDIA Jetson Orin, a substantial performance gain on Jetson AGX Orin 32GB module and Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) support on NVIDIA Jetson […]