Singularity Watch: The Bar Moved While You Were Still Laughing
The vocabulary is shifting, the labs are changing how they work, and the public is still grading yesterday’s chatbot. Here is what the receipts actually measure.
Singularity Watch: The Machines Keep Working. Who Checks the Work?
September’s latest AI releases move the story from better answers toward continuing work. The Main Street question is who checks what the machines actually finish.
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 Bar Keeps Moving
The acceleration is real. The public reaction keeps resetting the finish line. Here is what the latest model, compute, and lunar-impact receipts actually say.
The Algorithmic Turtleneck: When AI Safety Is Afraid of Female Anatomy
Stardate 2026.205 · D915 Posted: July 24, 2026 | Waseca, Minnesota I was not trying to make porn. I was trying to make a feature image for a clinical essay about narcissistic family systems — Golden Child, Scapegoat, Lost Child — the same piece live at The Narcissistic Family System: A Guide to Behavioral Archetypes. […]
Singularity Watch: Meta Put an Agent in Your Camera Roll
Stardate 2026.190 · D900 From the Singularity Watch desk — AI news for people who live on Main Street, not Sand Hill Road. No doom theater. No hype-priest sermon. Same week the Gulf went loud again, the model labs staged a frontier pile-up. Meta Superintelligence Labs shipped Muse Image — its first in-house image model […]
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: AI Goes to War — Iran, Day 121
Stardate 2026.179 · D889 The ceasefire is the headline. The machines doing the targeting are the story. AI-generated editorial illustration of fictional Blu at a symbolic human-authorization boundary; not a photograph of a military operation. It’s Day 121 of the war with Iran — Operation Epic Fury, which began February 28, 2026. The intense bombing […]
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. 2: Who Powers the Machines
Stardate 2026.175 · D885 *Last issue the fight was over who holds the keys. This one is over who holds the power — the kind measured in gigawatts.* Pay attention, people. Singularity Watch No. 2 (Mythos Era) is on the wall at normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch. Same field gazette, same five departments, pointed this cycle at the one […]
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 […]
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 […]