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Issue No. 005·AI Systems

Astra-nomically Close

Not AGI yet, but clearly in its orbit.

GPT-6 Astra can operate computers, write tools, navigate novel environments, and carry context across long tasks. It is not AGI, but it may be our clearest picture yet of almost-AGI.

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Issue No. 004·AI Infrastructure

MHS and MCP : Accessing from Software to Hardware

Anthropic is moving AI from “please summarize this” to “please calibrate the laser, carefully”

Anthropic's MCP connected AI agents to software and data. MHS is an attempt to give them a safer, more standard way to operate physical hardware.

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Issue No. 003·AI Infrastructure

K8s isn't that hard to understand

A beginner-friendly tour of Kubernetes, kubectl, and why AI infrastructure gets real after the demo works.

Kubernetes helps keep containerized applications running across machines. This is the simple explanation I wish I had when I started learning it, plus the kubectl commands that are actually useful.

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Issue No. 002·AI Systems

Is Quantum Computing also awaiting a Transformers Moment?

How Transformers became modern AI's default architecture, and why quantum is still looking for its own scalable abstraction/convergence

Transformers won because they matched model design, hardware, and economics at the same time. Quantum computing becomes interesting when AI's next bottlenecks stop being purely algorithmic and start becoming physical.

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Issue No. 001·AI Safety

The Black Box Has a Group Chat

Mechanistic interpretability, AI safety, and my first blog

Mechanistic interpretability is the field of asking what actually happens inside the model, and why that matters once the systems stop being toys and start becoming infrastructure.

8 min read · Read →

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