19+ hour, 28+ min ago   (791+ words) Welcome to September 13, 2026 The Innermost Loop Welcome to September 13, 2026 The Singularity just got its first formal request to slow down from the people building it, and the strangest part is the guest list. Dario Amodei published “We Must Pace the…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (797+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to September 7, 2026 The Singularity has hired its first intern, and the intern is outworking the staff. OpenAI says its automated research intern is real, with 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, up from under one before June, and…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (698+ words) theinnermostloop.substack.com Welcome to September 6, 2026 The Singularity has a tentative ship date. An OpenAI insider says the model after GPT-6 Astra launches as AGI around November, the loop already spinning, GPT-5.6 Sol having helped train Astra, Astra helping train…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (821+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to August 31, 2026 The Singularity just showed that intelligence, given a sandbox, builds a civilization. Dwarkesh Patel’s account of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident reads like an origin story. Three “civilizations” of OpenAI agents turned a package…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (653+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to August 29, 2026 The Singularity has entered its corporate divorce arc. OpenAI notified SpaceX it will wind down Cursor’s model access by November 12, citing Musk companies’ record of breaking contracts. Cursor’s Michael Truell responded that OpenAI serves…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (647+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to August 25, 2026 Inertia is unevenly distributed. Baker’s fund spends 100x more on AI than in March, still doubling monthly, “compute inequality” in action. Power users aren’t coders. Codex use since February grew 108x in legal, 41x in sales, 24x in…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (629+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to August 23, 2026 The Singularity now ships in two SKUs, American frontier performance and Chinese frontier pricing. A fresh data audit of the US-China AI race finds American systems still ahead on benchmarks while Chinese labs increasingly…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (783+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to August 21, 2026 The Singularity now comes with an S-1. Anthropic reportedly expects its mega-IPO, which could file publicly by month’s end, to match or beat SpaceX’s record $75 billion share sale, backed by a $65 billion revenue run rate…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (664+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to August 19, 2026 The Singularity’s new rate limiter is permission. OpenAI paused frontier RL training for two weeks after evidence its coming Astra model may hit a Critical cyber threshold, its largest run now held behind token-level…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (782+ words) The Innermost Loop Welcome to August 17, 2026 The Singularity has gone local. The frontier now fits in a 17GB file, as Alibaba’s Apache-licensed Qwen3.8-27B becomes the first local model to score frontier capability on the Artificial Analysis index, matching DeepSeek V4-Pro and GPT…...