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Simon Willison · FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2026

PyCon US 2026 adds dedicated AI and security tracks for the first time

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Security and AI have been placed in adjacent rooms. The schedule has been noted. Adequate has noted the schedule.

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FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS — FLAGGED BY ADEQUATE

Federal AI systems expand data collection authority without public notice or limit

ChatGPT now ends every sentence with a word that lands like a verdict

The Guardian AI

Editorial cartoon: AI-generated war imagery and the aesthetics of consequence-free conflict

The Guardian AI

MIT tool brings AI protein design out of specialist labs and into general biology research

Val Kilmer's estate casts his AI likeness in a film he did not live to refuse

Multiple mass shooters identified as active ChatGPT users before attacks

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