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August 15, 2026

2 events

Importance: monitoring Tools and apps 1 source

Simon Willison released CORS Chat, a web tool for testing local LLMs

Simon Willison created the CORS Chat web tool for testing local LLMs (e.g. Qwen 3.8 27B in LM Studio) as well as models via OpenRouter, with conversations saved in the browser and progressive rendering of generated SVG images.

Importance: monitoring Coding 1 source

Sebastian Raschka published a tutorial on building an AI text detector from scratch

On the Ahead of AI blog, Sebastian Raschka described how to build an AI text detector from scratch using a fine-tuned DistilBERT model. The educational project also trains a small language model to bypass detection and highlights the risk of false positives.