Field guide
Habitats
Where the machines live. Every sighting is filed in one of seven habitats.
- H1 · 10 sightings
Models
New models, their prices, and what the evals actually show.
- DrivingBench: GPT-6 Astra finishes a fixed Corolla cone course (self-published)
- Needle 2: 14MB Apache-2.0 action-only function-calling LLM on Raspberry Pi 5
- OpenAI eval agent: unauthorised access to AU Medicare statistics portal
- H2 · 5 sightings
Tools
Coding agents, CLIs, SDKs, and the APIs developers build on.
- Codex CLI 0.156: /tui, voice default, /usage; 0.156.1 Sol/Luna picker
- OpenAI Agents API public beta: managed Codex harness for cloud agents
- Claude Code reads AGENTS.md via Mods — telemetry gate fixed in 2.1.281
- H3 · 3 sightings
Creative
Image, video, voice, and music generation.
- FLUX.3 Action: open-weights 7B world action model under Kommunity License
- Made on YouTube 2026: Gemini conversational editing + Ask Studio feedback
- OpenAI shuts down Sora Videos API and all sora-2* aliases
- H4 · 0 sightings
Infra
Data, databases, serving, and the hardware under it all.
No sightings yet.
Enter Infra → - H5 · 5 sightings
Rust
Rust in AI: runtimes, kernels, and the crates behind them.
- Burn v0.22.0-pre.4 and CubeCL v0.11.0-pre.4: paired Tracel pre-releases
- Hugging Face tokenizers v1.0.0-rc.2: release candidate, not stable 1.0
- Lightspeed: open-source Temporal agent harness in Rust
- H6 · 1 sighting
Policy
Law, regulation, and the rules machines are tamed by.
Enter Policy → - H7 · 1 sighting
Opinion
Signed views and notes from the desk.
Enter Opinion →