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Anthropic prices Claude Opus 4.5 at $5/1M input and $25/1M output tokens, much cheaper than Opus 4.1 at $15/$75 but still pricier than GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/24/claude-opus/

Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 this morning, which they call “best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use”. This is their attempt to retake the crown for …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Sufjan Stevens:
🎵 Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance!
#SufjanStevens
https://music.sufjan.com/track/come-on-lets-boogey-to-the-elf-dance
https://open.spotify.com/track/7waVlYyEacmMKYCm2VuefB

I wrote about Tex Mex gravy, the definitive sauce for cheese enchiladas.

"Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia"
#Asia #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia
A climate study led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with an international research team, reveals that under a high-emission scenario, the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoons region will undergo extreme weather events starting in 2064. Asia and broader tropical regions will face frequent "subseasonal whiplash" events, characterized by extreme downpours and dry spells alternating every 30 to 90 days which trigger climate disruptions with catastrophi…

I missed #mondog but this is Waffles, concerned at the delay at the drive through… he was really jonesing for his puppachino.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Sufjan Stevens:
🎵 Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance!
#SufjanStevens
https://music.sufjan.com/track/come-on-lets-boogey-to-the-elf-dance
https://open.spotify.com/track/7waVlYyEacmMKYCm2VuefB

Rain one minute, heat wave the next: How climate 'whiplash' drives unpredictable fire weather https://phys.org/news/2026-01-minute-climate-whiplash-unpredictable-weather.html

Rain one minute, heat wave the next: How climate 'whiplash' drives unpredictable fire weather
After a weekend of extreme heat and windy conditions, more than 30 blazes were still burning in Victoria and New South Wales as of Sunday evening, including major fires in the Otways, near the town of Alexandra in central Victoria, and on the NSW-Victoria border near Corryong.

We're currently binging DJane sessions from @… https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC-025842/weibliche-djs-im-rampenlicht/
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Nano Banana Pro is great at following instructions, generates interim "thought images", and makes full infographics with well-rendered text from a short prompt (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/20/nano-banana-pro/

Nano Banana Pro aka gemini-3-pro-image-preview is the best available image generation model
Hot on the heels of Tuesday’s Gemini 3 Pro release, today it’s Nano Banana Pro, also known as Gemini 3 Pro Image. I’ve had a few days of preview access …

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a…

Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from …