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- 70Frontier Mechanics Week 70: GPT-5.2 works the spreadsheet, Rivian rebuilds autonomy, K2 Space finances the large bus, and SpaceX prepares to test the public marketA model release targeted professional artifacts, an automaker unveiled a vertically integrated autonomy stack, a satellite startup raised for high-power platforms, and the most important private space company contemplated an IPO.
- 69Frontier Mechanics Week 69: NASA books an orbital arm, Shield AI enters the space domain, robots borrow the radio network, and neuromorphic chips wake at the edgeA walking manipulator earned a flight, Sedaro and Shield AI linked autonomy to orbital simulation, SoftBank paired AI-RAN with industrial robots, and sparse spiking compute targeted always-on sensing.
- 68Frontier Mechanics Week 68: solar particles patch the A320, HydroGNSS listens to reflected navigation, Nuri hands work to industry, and Varda returns another capsuleAviation software met space weather, tiny satellites turned GNSS spillover into climate data, South Korea shifted launch operations toward a private prime, and orbital manufacturing practiced the trip home.
- 67Frontier Mechanics Week 67: Sentinel-6B measures a rising baseline, Kalshi doubles again, Germany hardens orbit, and New Glenn adds enginesA radar altimeter continued a climate record, prediction-market capital accelerated, Germany published its first space-security strategy, and Blue Origin proposed a 9×4 heavy-lift variant.
- 66Frontier Mechanics Week 66: New Glenn lands, Kuiper becomes Leo, LeCun leaves the language-model race, and NASA shops for a commercial relayBlue Origin recovered a booster on its second orbital mission, Amazon renamed its satellite network, a leading researcher chose world models over text prediction, and public communications infrastructure moved toward private services.
- 65Frontier Mechanics Week 65: OpenAI rents an AWS continent, Sentinel-1D restores the radar pair, astronauts make protein from air, and fabs board a shipA $38 billion cloud agreement widened OpenAI's supplier map, Europe refreshed all-weather imaging, a life-support study targeted food from cabin waste, and a startup proposed moving chipmaking offshore.
- 64Frontier Mechanics Week 64: OpenAI draws a trillion-dollar blueprint, Nvidia models the robot factory, Shenzhou turns around a crew, and ROS grows a production spineCompute commitments reached nation-state scale, industrial AI moved into digital twins, China docked a new crew in hours, and open robotics infrastructure confronted its maintenance debt.
- 63Frontier Mechanics Week 63: Periodic explains its AI laboratory, a Doritos bag defeats gun detection, Muon adopts laser crosslinks, and Europe merges its satellite factoriesA closer financing account made an automated-science thesis legible, a school security model produced a vivid false positive, a satellite bus gained optical networking, and three European primes chose consolidation over duplication.
- 62Frontier Mechanics Week 62: California regulates companion bots, Astra moves multimodal AI to the edge, Satellogic sells sovereign vision, and AgiBot hardens the humanoidA new law focused on simulated intimacy, an edge processor combined perception modes, an imaging platform promised national control, and an industrial humanoid traded theatrical range for factory discipline.
- 61Frontier Mechanics Week 61: OpenAI packages the agent loop, Kalshi prices belief, Stoke funds full reuse, and Deloitte learns that a model still needs an ownerAgentKit turned orchestration into product surface, a prediction exchange reached a $5 billion valuation, Stoke financed a reusable second stage, and an AI-assisted report made accountability painfully concrete.
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