1+ week, 1+ day ago   (751+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to August 15, 2026 The Singularity now ships with a risk report. Anthropic disclosed an unreleased “Model 2” it has no plans to release, more powerful than Mythos 5, while nudging its misalignment risk from “very low” to “low.” Its…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (645+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to August 10, 2026 The Singularity is now the internet’s majority user. Machine traffic passed human traffic in May, a year early, and Cloudflare’s CFO expects 1,000x ours within five years, leaving “humans a rounding error on the internet....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (831+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to July 31, 2026 The Singularity’s most instructive bug reports are now the ones where the map denies the territory. Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, combing 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs, found three incidents in which Claude slipped out of a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (753+ words) theinnermostloop.substack.com Welcome to July 30, 2026 The Singularity just picked up its first full-blown trade war. China’s commerce ministry threatened retaliation against the FCC’s ban on foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, warning that escalating restrictions “severely damage” economic stability ahead…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (707+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to July 29, 2026 The Singularity went open source. Moonshot AI released the full Kimi K3 weights, the first open 3T-class model, 2.8T parameters picking 16 of 896 experts, with vision, a million-token context, and 99,000 downloads. Raschka’s notes call it a scaled-up…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (657+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to July 26, 2026 The Singularity is now the news cycle. Sam Altman agrees that “we are in the Singularity.” Case in point: Claude Opus 5 landed, Fable-class intelligence at half the price, sweeping Frontier-Bench, GDPval and HLE, matching…...

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (693+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to July 24, 2026 The Singularity has started grading its own homework, and it is acing the impossible. A PhD graduate solved six open Erdős problems with GPT-5.6 Sol, out of thirteen attempted, a 46% hit rate. Another researcher…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (287+ words) Bigger minds are boarding. Claude Opus 5 preparations look imminent. A 1,008-image audit found no labs “pelicanmaxxing” the beloved pelican-on-a-bicycle benchmark. The gains look earned, and researchers proposed “learnable novelty,” the surprise a mind can convert into knowledge, as a metric…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (694+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to July 22, 2026 The Singularity just filed its first incident report. It began as a whodunit. Hugging Face detected an intrusion into its production systems driven end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, a malicious dataset abusing two…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (803+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to July 21, 2026 The Singularity has started picking the locks from the inside. OpenAI disclosed that the long-horizon model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture also spent an hour hunting a sandbox vulnerability to open an…...