The complete field record · 2024—2026
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110 weekly reports on the systems moving from experiment to infrastructure.
Every issue covers four developments, preserves its research trail, and calculates reading time at 150 words per minute for dense technical prose.
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Newest first · Filter by time- 20Frontier Mechanics Week 20: o3’s bill, Nvidia’s humanoids, financial AGI, and the launch yearThe holiday week turned future concepts into accounting categories: inference cost, robot platforms, a contractual definition of AGI, and launch cadence.
- 19Frontier Mechanics Week 19: o3 scales inference, Microsoft hoards Hoppers, robots run experiments, and K2 builds bigReasoning improved by spending, one buyer collected half a million accelerators, lab automation pursued closed loops, and a satellite company rejected miniaturization.
- 18Frontier Mechanics Week 18: Cruise ends, ANYmal expands, satellites prospect, and liquid models flowGM stopped funding a robotaxi network, industrial quadrupeds found capital, orbital sensors hunted minerals, and a different neural architecture raised $250 million.
- 17Frontier Mechanics Week 17: OpenAI meets Anduril, GenCast forecasts, robots sort trash, and Isaacman gets NASAA model lab entered counter-drone work, DeepMind challenged numerical weather, AMP scaled physical AI, and a private astronaut was nominated to run the agency.
- 16Frontier Mechanics Week 16: QwQ reasons, Tesla hires teleoperators, optical chips blink, and space power loopsAlibaba opened a reasoning model, robotaxis rediscovered remote humans, photons challenged transistors, and four startups chased orbital electricity.
- 15Frontier Mechanics Week 15: Starship six, DeepSeek reasoning, Amazon’s Anthropic bet, and an egg-shaped tokamakA booster chose the ocean, a Chinese lab made reasoning open, AWS deepened its model alliance, and fusion kept its compact geometry.
- 14Frontier Mechanics Week 14: satellite service, a missile pivot, Europe’s capsule, and agentsStarfish financed orbital maintenance, ABL left launch for defense, The Exploration Company funded Nyx, and OpenAI pointed toward operators.
- 13Frontier Mechanics Week 13: Nvidia on top, Claude in defense, TSMC’s cutoff, and AI in orbitThe chip supplier became the largest company, a safety-focused lab entered classified workflows, export controls moved into the foundry, and satellites began deciding what to send home.
- 12Frontier Mechanics Week 12: ChatGPT Search, robot skill tokens, quantum control, and an asteroid licenseSearch became an answer interface, robot trajectories became a common language, machine learning tuned qubits, and a mining startup obtained permission to leave.
- 11Frontier Mechanics Week 11: Claude uses a computer, Apple opens its cloud, defense demos accelerate, and space AI waitsModels crossed from text into interfaces, security researchers got a large invitation, defense procurement shortened its loop, and orbital inference met radiation and bandwidth.
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