The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
Simon Willison compresses half a year of model releases, agent tooling, and pricing shifts into a fast skim — what actually changed and what was noise.
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Vol. 2026 · No. 139
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Refreshed 7:20 am PT
The stack
3 picks · curatedAnthropic acquires Stainless
Anthropic is buying Stainless, the company behind generated SDKs for the OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major APIs, folding API client tooling in-house.
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, to publish May 25
The Vatican has set May 25 for the release of Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, the programmatic document expected to frame his pontificate.
Tech & capital
Hacker News · 114 c · 195 pts
Mini Shai-Hulud strikes again: 314 npm packages compromised
Hacker News · 156 c · 201 pts
Cursor introduces Composer 2.5
Reuters · today
Google and Blackstone to launch AI cloud venture to meet data-center demand
r/programming · 21 c · 86 pts
The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
The wire
AP Wire · today
Justice Department announces nearly $1.8B fund to compensate Trump allies in deal to drop IRS suit
AP Wire · today
Putin visits China to reaffirm ties as Xi seeks stable US relations after Trump summit
AP Wire · today
Federal court rejects Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI, saying he filed his lawsuit too late
Faith
Christianity Today · today
The rise of the ritualistic but not religious
Mere Orthodoxy · today
The problem with 'religion'
Christianity Today · yesterday
People of the chatbot
Slow reads
Marginal Revolution · 9 min
Repugnant economics
r/programming · 8 min
The tacit dimension: why your best engineers can't tell you what they know
Astral Codex Ten · 12 min