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Building an Agent-Friendly, Local-First Analytics Stack with MotherDuck and Rill

Building an Agent-Friendly, Local-First Analytics Stack with MotherDuck and Rill

Imagine going from a 100-million-row dataset to an interactive analytics app with just a few prompts. What used to take hours or days can now be done in minutes by combining local-first databases and BI tools with an agentic coding workflow. When Rill bet on YAML dashboards and CLI-first workflows in 2022, they weren’t thinking about AI agents. Neither was MotherDuck when they built serverless DuckDB around the thesis that most data fits on a laptop. But it turns out, what is developer-friendly…

SSP Data Engineering Blog
Promising Signals on AI Governance from China

Promising Signals on AI Governance from China

View the official memo here. China has consistently signaled a willingness to engage on global AI governance since at least 2017. This memo compiles key statements from the Chinese government and prominent figures demonstrating their desire to coordinate on the problem of AI. Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, at the 2025 World Economic Forum, said: […] The post Promising Signals on AI Governance from China appeared first on Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

MIRI Blog
Google AI Edge Gallery

Google AI Edge Gallery

Google AI Edge Gallery Terrible name, really great app: this is Google's official app for running their Gemma 4 models (the E2B and E4B sizes, plus some members of the Gemma 3 family) directly on your iPhone. It works really well. The E2B model is a 2.54GB download and is both fast and genuinely useful. The app also provides "ask questions about images" and audio transcription (up to 30s) with the two small Gemma 4 models, and has an interesting "skills" demo which demonstrates tool calling…

Simon Willison's Weblog
datasette-ports 0.1

datasette-ports 0.1

Release: datasette-ports 0.1 Another example of README-driven development, this time solving a problem that might be unique to me. I often find myself running a bunch of different Datasette instances with different databases and different in-development plugins, spreads across dozens of different terminal windows - enough that I frequently lose them! Now I can run this: datasette install datasette-ports datasette ports And get a list of every running instance that looks something like this:…

Simon Willison's Weblog
Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI Lalit Maganti provides one of my favorite pieces of long-form writing on agentic engineering I've seen in ages. They spent eight years thinking about and then three months building syntaqlite, which they describe as "high-fidelity devtools that SQLite deserves". The goal was to provide fast, robust and comprehensive linting and verifying tools for SQLite, suitable for use in language servers and other development tools - a parser,…

Simon Willison's Weblog
Quoting Chengpeng Mou

Quoting Chengpeng Mou

From anonymized U.S. ChatGPT data, we are seeing: ~2M weekly messages on health insurance ~600K weekly messages [classified as healthcare] from people living in “hospital deserts” (30 min drive to nearest hospital) 7 out of 10 msgs happen outside clinic hours — Chengpeng Mou, Head of Business Finance, OpenAI Tags: ai-ethics, generative-ai, openai, chatgpt, ai, llms

Simon Willison's Weblog
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