I just sent out the May edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter (https://github.com/sponsors/simonw/). If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here (https://github.com/simonw-private/monthly/blob/main/2026-05-may.md).

This month:

• Al got expensive, and Anthropic had a really good month

• The model releases were a little disappointing

• Conferences and podcasts

• I launched Datasette Agent and made a lot of progress on Datasette

• What I’m using, May 2026 edition

• Miscellaneous extras

Here’s a copy of the April newsletter (https://github.com/simonw/monthly-newsletter-archive/blob/main/2026-04-april.md) as a preview of what you’ll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy!

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