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.
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 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: 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 […]