Simon Willison sent the May 2026 edition of his sponsors-only monthly newsletter. Topics include rising AI costs, Anthropic's strong month, and somewhat disappointing model releases. The issue also covers conferences, podcasts, the launch of Datasette Agent, progress on Datasette, tools he is using, and miscellaneous extras. An April issue is available as a public preview.
Simon Willison released datasette-agent 0.1a4, leveraging the new makeJumpSections() JS plugin hook in Datasette 1.0a30. Users can now press "/" from any page to open the "Jump to" menu and instantly access a "Start a new agent chat" input box. This update streamlines database interactions, allowing users to trigger agent-led data analysis seamlessly.