Singularity Watch: The Safety Work Is Becoming the Story
The current frontier-AI story is not only a faster model. It is the work labs say they are doing to test, monitor, and contain more capable systems.
Singularity Watch: The Permission Slip Got Signed — Fable 5 Comes Back, and a New Model Clocks In
Stardate 2026.182 · D892 Posted: July 1, 2026 | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. AI-generated editorial illustration of fictional Blu at a symbolic model-release authorization gate. Four days ago on this desk, we told you the scarcest thing in AI had stopped being compute and started being a permission slip from Washington. On June 27, […]
Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Scarcest Thing in AI Is No Longer Compute. It’s a Permission Slip from Washington.
Stardate 2026.178 · D888 Posted: June 27, 2026 | 10:10 AM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. You’re the IT director at the regional hospital in Waseca or the owner of the small manufacturing shop outside Montgomery. For years the story was that the smartest AI would go to whoever could afford the biggest […]
Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Machines Just Started Fixing Their Own Bugs While 21,000 Humans Got the Pink Slip
Stardate 2026.175 · D885 Posted: June 24, 2026 | 6:45 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. You’re the IT guy at the regional bank in Waseca or the office manager at the insurance agency in Montgomery. For years the story was “AI will help with the boring parts.” Today the story changed. The […]