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Taking the Pulse on the Approach to the Singularity
Horizon — deeper analysis for the long view. Where our daily Dispatches deliver the quick scan, Horizon expands the stories that matter into rigorous context, balanced insight, and singularity-focused implications. The Pulse of current AI Developments.
OpenAI says ChatGPT search averaged 159.1 million monthly active recipients in the EU (six months ending March 31, 2026). The DSA’s big-service threshold is 45 million. Math has entered the chat.
The EU’s Digital Services Act doesn’t care whether you ca...
2026-05-26
Everyone wants agents. Nobody wants to inventory them. Vendors have noticed, and the new enterprise control plane is basically: ‘show me the delegation chain.’
AI agents don’t break security because they’re evil. They break security because they’re fast...
2026-05-26
PJM’s wholesale costs spiked 75.5% year-over-year in Q1 2026. Cities and counties are responding the only way humans know how: by slamming the brakes and asking who’s paying for the wires.
The AI buildout has discovered its natural predator: the electri...
2026-05-26
The numbers are astronomical, the valuations are fictional, and the compute bills are very, very real. Welcome to the end of the AI Lab Era.
This week’s reports that OpenAI has crossed $25 billion in annualized revenue and Anthropic has hit a $30 billion run...
2026-05-19
Google I/O 2026 is here, and the message is clear: the phone is too small for the vision, and the chat box is too passive for the plan.
As Sundar Pichai takes the stage at Shoreline today, the spotlight isn't just on another Gemini version number. It's on th...
2026-05-19
Who knew that running the entire collective intelligence of humanity on a massive cluster of water-cooled GPUs would require, well, electricity? Apparently, the shock is starting to hit the grid.
For the last three years, the AI narrative has been a clean, s...
2026-05-19
The UK’s AI Security Institute is measuring offensive autonomy like it’s Moore’s Law — and the numbers are not calming.
AISI says frontier models’ autonomous cyber task length has been doubling every few months, and a newer Mythos Preview checkpoint sol...
2026-05-19
SDK factories, identity inventory, secrets vaults, and big red kill switches: the boring stack is the stack.
Anthropic is buying Stainless, Cisco is scooping up Astrix, HashiCorp is shipping agent identities in Vault, and ServiceNow is talking about kil...
2026-05-19
Compute is still “cloud.” It’s just billed in politics now.
A PJM watchdog report blames data-center load for a huge jump in wholesale power costs, while local opposition is turning server farms into the new zoning war. The non-obvious story: the AI rac...
2026-05-19
Executive Order N-5-26 is California doing what it does best: regulating with paperwork and vibes. Except this time the paperwork is procurement—and procurement is how markets actually get shaped.
California’s EO N-5-26 doesn’t try to write the definiti...
2026-05-12
The AI buildout has graduated from “cloud strategy” to “please sign this petition” and “your transformer ships in 160 weeks.”
Two separate stories are quietly fusing into one: (1) voters and local governments discovering that “hyperscale” means “your to...
2026-05-12
Anthropic just bought itself a lot of breathing room for Claude… by renting compute from a data-center buildout that’s currently learning what the Clean Air Act feels like.
Anthropic says a new SpaceX partnership gives it access to “more than 300 megawa...
2026-05-12