Simon Willison (Part Two): How Datasette Helps With Investigative Reporting. The second part of my Newsroom Robots podcast conversation with Nikita Roy. This episode includes my best audio answer yet to the “what is Datasette?” question, plus notes on how to use LLMs in journalism despite their propensity to make things up.
Recent articles
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- LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling - 11th August 2025