Frontier Daily (Aug 9): 2 items from Simon Willison
The system prompt instructs Claude to accurately confirm the release, suspension, and restoration of the two models due to US export control…
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1. Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt
The system prompt instructs Claude to accurately confirm the release, suspension, and restoration of the two models due to US export controls, and to point to the linked statement.
Source: Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-09 · Original
2. GitHub Models is now retired
GitHub Models has been retired, as revealed by a failed GitHub Actions build, and the author guessed the shutdown may relate to the prohibitive cost of free or subsidized tokens in coding agent patterns.
Source: Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-09 · Original
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