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. 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, the government cleared Anthropic’s strongest model, Claude Mythos 5, for about a […]
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 No. 1: Who Holds the Keys
Stardate 2026.165 · D875 *Singularity Watch has a gazette now. The blog is the watchtower bell; the page is the wall itself.* Pay attention, people. Singularity Watch — A Field Gazette from the Vibrating Wall is live at normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch, and Issue No. 1 (Mythos Era) is on the wall. Same engine as the Carnival gazette, […]
Singularity Watch: The Fleet Went Public, the Sky Files Opened, and the Gods Are Fighting Over Who Holds the Lightning
Stardate 2026.164 · D874 Posted: June 13, 2026 | 8:00 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. While you were checking grain prices or locking up the hardware store in Montgomery, the invasion fleet did something very human: it went public. On June 12, 2026 — the exact same day the Pentagon dropped its […]
Singularity Watch: Washington Took the Key — Fable and Mythos Go Dark by Federal Order
Stardate 2026.164 · D874 Posted: June 13, 2026 | 8:40 AM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. Back in April we watched Anthropic build the most powerful model the public had ever seen — and then lock it away themselves. Project Glasswing. Mythos Preview. The lab held the key, and the lab decided who […]
Singularity Watch: Opus 4.7 — The Public Frontier Catches Up (While Mythos Stays Locked)
Stardate 2026.106 · D816 Posted: April 16, 2026 | Waseca, Minnesota Eight days ago Anthropic revealed Claude Mythos Preview — the most powerful model they’ve ever built — and then immediately locked it away from the public. I wrote about it here: the wall was cracking, the frontier was bifurcating into a locked tier for […]