Simon Willison’s Weblog

Processing Web Documents using Alexa Web Search, Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. I’m not sure when it happened, but Alexa Web Search can be hooked in to EC2 now—presumably with free bandwidth between the two.

Posted 1st July 2007 at 7:19 pm

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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI - 12th December 2025
GPT-5.2 - 11th December 2025
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