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How to keep your conversations with ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or Claude as private as possible
Innovation Why you can trust ZDNET : ZDNET independently tests and researches products to bring you our best…
Duress passcodes explained: How they work and why they can land you in court
Tech Why you can trust ZDNET : ZDNET independently tests and researches products to bring you our best…
How Google used AI agents to find and fix 1,072 Chrome security bugs - in 60 days
Innovation Home Innovation Artificial Intelligence How Google used AI agents to find and fix 1,072 Chrome…
Zapier's AI tools: Get to know our governed AI products and features
I've been writing about AI and automation for Zapier for the last two years. In that time, I've seen Zapier…
Zapier Tables: Store, move, and act on your data automatically
Plenty of tools can store data. But you probably don't need just a holding tank—you need your data to go…
The 8 best AI scheduling assistants
Productivity starts with your calendar—but sometimes it ends there too. No one wants to reprioritize an…
The 8 best AI image generators in 2026
AI image generators have been brewing (generating?) up a storm for the last few years. If you've been on…
What is role-based access control (RBAC)?
I used to work at a small law firm whose managers didn't believe in spending money on legal case management…
condense-json 1.1
Release: condense-json 1.1 After shipping condense-json 1.0 I started integrating it into LLM, and found…
AI frameworks: Definition, types, and how to choose
Whenever there's a shiny new AI tool, it makes sense to dive in and see if it's worth introducing into your…
Agentic AI vs. generative AI: Key differences and use cases
When people talk about AI, they often toss wildly different tools into the same bucket—like putting a…
12 AI automation examples (and how teams built them)
I use and write about AI for a living, but even I tend to roll my eyes whenever I see an ad for AI in the…
7 chatbot use cases for your business
When I replayed Fallout 4 recently, I reacquainted myself with one of the background characters—a noodle…
condense-json 1.0
Release: condense-json 1.0 I'm trying to get braver at releasing 1.0 versions. This little library is a year…
Open letters about AI development
Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of…
July 2026 newsletter
The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a…
datasette-apps 0.2a0
Release: datasette-apps 0.2a0 Changes that improve Datasette Apps when created and edited using Datasette…
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering…
AI in Formula One: Competitive advantage is all about the human in the loop
Business Home Business Digital Transformation AI in Formula One: Competitive advantage is all about the human…
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced…
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol…
llm-mcp-client 0.1a0
Release: llm-mcp-client 0.1a0 See this blog entry. Tags: llm, model-context-protocol
Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal…
smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses
smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses I've been working with Jesse…