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Quarterly spine — operational snapshot of models, harness, process, and what changed.

Q2 2026 · Issue No. 7 · 1 piece

Dispatches

Filed from the floor — the patterns unfreeze in Miami, and the Linux moment arrives on the laptop.

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  • May 22, 2026

    How AI in May 2026

    Five months after the last update, almost every choice has shifted. Multi-model is the default, open weights showed up, the harness is open, and the coding agent is now a native part of the software process.

Q1 2026 · Issue No. 6 · 1 piece

Proofs

Show your work — 131 models, honest margins, and the thesis that it's agents all the way down.

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  • January 3, 2026

    How AI in January 2026

    We're at the beginning of infinity. In geological time this is all happening in an instant — and 2026 might be the best year to be alive.

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