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Higgsfield 3D Jutsu: Build and Animate 3D Scenes from a Prompt

• 3D Jutsu is Higgsfield's AI 3D workspace: a prompt becomes an editable scene with objects, lighting, cameras, and animation, then renders to video from the same chat.

Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers

• <p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOC3DisEOfg">Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers</a></strong></p> Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a familiar creature at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOC3DisEOfg&amp;t=119">1m59s</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Across the board, Astra

Using Blender with coding agents on macOS

• <p><strong>TIL:</strong> <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender-coding-agents-macos">Using Blender with coding agents on macOS</a></p> <p>I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac app

AI Video Restoration: How to Enhance and Restore Old Footage to High Quality

• Restore old video with AI: fix resolution, noise, faded color, and flicker using Video Upscale and Seedance 2.5 Edit. Full workflow and pricing.

Anthropic and Cursor both ship production-grade agent infrastructure this week, while a DLSS 5 webcam demo shows real-time AI video enhancement is now open-source and forkable.

• Anthropic open-sourced Claude Commerce Agents, a full blueprint (shopping agent + merchant agent) that deploys via Claude API, Bedrock, Foundry, or Vertex AI, with early data showing 35% higher cart sizes and 60% more checkouts
• Cursor launched self-hosted cloud coding agents that keep code, secrets, and execution on your own infra while only planning happens in Cursor's cloud - opens agent use to regulated/locked-down companies
• An open-source demo pipes live webcam footage through NVIDIA's DLSS 5 AI enhancer in real-time (1280x720 to 2560x1440, person-detection masking, MIT-licensed code, needs RTX GPU + separately sourced DLSS binaries)
• Claude can now silently control Mac apps in the background, extending agentic automation beyond chat/code into desktop OS control
• A new reasoning model hits 99.5% accuracy on Sudoku with 44x less compute, signaling efficiency gains are becoming as newsworthy as raw capability
• Meta released Muse Spark 1.3, positioned as the cheapest model at its intelligence tier

The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

• <p>I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/">SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles</a> - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I rendered tho

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra debuts as a premium agentic model while Nvidia buys Hugging Face and pushes local AI onto Windows

• OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, priced at $10/$50 per million input/output tokens (same as Anthropic's Fable 5.1), claiming best-in-class computer use, software engineering (beats Claude Fable 5.1 on DeepSWE v1.1), and fewer total tokens per task despite the high price
• Astra refuses advanced cybersecurity tasks like exploit discovery under OpenAI's preparedness framework, but OpenAI admits its reasoning is harder to monitor as capability increases - a real safety tradeoff, not just PR
• Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark (1 petaflop GPU, 128GB unified memory) shipping in Lenovo/Acer PCs in October, plus one-click local setup for Perplexity Portable Computer, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw on Windows - directly targeting Mac's local-AI advantage for running always-on agents cheaply
• Nvidia's Personal AI Router (PAIR) is a free open-source tool that pools multiple home PCs to distribute local inference load, addressing the single-GPU bottleneck problem for agent-heavy workflows
• Nvidia acquired Hugging Face for $12.9B; both companies insist Nvidia compute won't be required to use the platform, but long-term independence of the open-model ecosystem is now a real question mark
• Smaller but relevant: Claude gained background computer control for multitasking (Claude Cowork/Code), and Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 is positioned as a much cheaper frontier-level alternative

OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

• <p>Here we go again... <a href="https://collusion.wiki">Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board</a> by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the <em>latest</em> <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/accidental-cyberattacks/">accidental cyberattack</a>

Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers