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Welcome to December 12, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

World models move from generating clips to generating an environment you can steer through in real time — and the rights-holders start supplying the furniture.

Development timeline

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2026-09-06: Given a computer inside its simulation, an agent builds a simulation with agents

2026-09-04: The first probe aimed at another star has its route found in three days

2026-09-02: An 80,000-year cruise reframes the payload as a spacetime capsule

2026-09-02: Three explanations of the Fermi paradox imply the same action

2026-09-02: A mission announces the first spacecraft aimed at a specific star

2026-08-29: A president announces a nuclear-powered Mars ship and a space academy

2026-08-25: Simulations find a warp bubble would either ignite a fireball or barely glow

2026-08-23: A presidential memorandum orders a thousand launches a year by 2030

2026-08-19: A third nation lands an orbital booster on legs

2026-08-10: A space company argues every planet's magnetic field is free to harvest

2026-08-06: A paper prices megaengineering to keep Earth habitable far past its natural span

2026-08-03: Ten dollars of tokens renders a literary opening as 5,500 lines of 3D

2026-07-26: A first-of-its-kind exosatellite strains planetary taxonomy

2026-07-23: A first-time-right launch makes India the third nation with private orbital access

2026-07-17: The first atmosphere is detected around a rocky habitable-zone exoplanet

2026-07-08: A model conjures a procedural kingdom with economies and lineages from one plan

2026-06-26: Astronomers catch the first signature of a black hole's event horizon

2026-06-20: NASA taps a rival for a Mars orbiter that could beat SpaceX there

2026-06-01: A deep-learning model finds evidence of a stable Martian ocean

2026-05-17: A fully hallucinated encyclopedia canonizes its own inventions on click

2026-05-16: An open world model turns one image into a minute of controllable video

2026-05-11: Machine learning finds ten thousand new exoplanet candidates

2026-05-05: Twenty-seven candidate planets are found orbiting two stars each

2026-05-03: A plasma thruster runs at twenty-five times Psyche's power

2026-04-26: A laser design reaches a coherence length spanning the solar system

2026-04-20: Blue Origin reuses a booster as landers race for Artemis III

2026-04-16: A memristor runs reliably hotter than the surface of Venus

2026-04-12: Artemis II splashes down, closing a 53-year gap

2026-04-07: Artemis II breaks Apollo 13's distance record and sees the full far side

2026-04-05: Artemis II crosses halfway, shooting on modified iPhones

2026-04-03: Artemis II completes the first translunar injection since 1972

2026-04-02: Artemis II launches and Outlook fails seven hours in

2026-04-01: One company commands 97% of US launches

2026-03-29: NASA will send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars before 2029

2026-03-28: Plasma ignites inside a fusion rocket engine

2026-03-27: NASA scraps the lunar gateway for a south pole base

2026-03-25: Planned lunar mass drivers are noted to double as weapons

2026-03-24: Archival plates show reflective objects in orbit before Sputnik

2026-03-20: Potatoes are grown in simulated lunar soil

2026-03-18: All five canonical nucleobases are found on an asteroid

2026-03-18: Video is generated faster than it can be watched

2026-03-12: A Moon factory is built for under five thousand dollars

2026-03-12: A minimal cell is brought to life in four dimensions on a computer

2026-03-10: Plasma is generated in an orbital furnace at 1,000 degrees

2026-03-08: DART turns out to have shifted both asteroids' solar orbits

2026-03-06: A telescope with a hundred times Hubble's field of view prepares to launch

2026-03-04: Microbes survive asteroid-impact pressures, supporting panspermia

2026-02-28: NASA pulls Artemis III forward and commits to yearly moonshots

2026-02-27: Historical paintings become immersive ancestor simulations

2026-02-23: Artemis II slips to March 6

2026-02-13: A startup raises $100M to simulate society with agents modeled on real people

2026-02-12: Musk says most compute will soon go to real-time video generation

2026-02-12: The coming swarm is visualized as a ring around Earth

2026-02-11: SpaceX confirms an Earth-centered Dyson Swarm design

2026-02-10: SpaceX says it will build a system for anyone to reach the Moon

2026-02-09: SpaceX targets a self-growing lunar city within ten years

2026-02-08: SpaceX begins hiring for orbital datacenters

2026-02-06: Optimus Academy trains millions of simulated robots

2026-02-02: Blue Origin pauses suborbital flights for the Moon

2026-02-02: A world model hands a user a Matrix tape inside a simulated Blockbuster

2026-02-02: SpaceX files to deploy a million satellites toward Kardashev II

2026-01-31: A model planned the first AI drive on Mars

2026-01-30: Interactive worlds are sketched and remixed in real time

2026-01-29: SpaceX plans a $1.5 trillion IPO timed to a planetary alignment

2026-01-26: Starship V4 targets three times the Saturn V

2026-01-25: A world model streams 720p for minutes at a time

2026-01-13: Hotels are booked for the Moon and orbit

2026-01-12: China files for 200,000 satellites

2026-01-10: Artemis II gets a launch time

2026-01-07: NASA confirms a nuclear octocopter for Titan

2026-01-06: Congress funds lunar fission inside a $24.4B NASA budget

2026-01-05: Superconducting shields are proposed against Carrington events

2026-01-05: SpaceX prepares to build 10,000 Starships a year

2026-01-04: Aerojet proposes nuclear-electric deep-space logistics

2026-01-03: Artemis II gets a February 6 launch window

2026-01-02: Mice reproduce after a trip to orbit

2025-12-30: JAXA and Toyota build a pressurized lunar rover

2025-12-29: Ganymede may be a dark matter detector

2025-12-23: YouTube ships a no-code game builder driven by prompts

2025-12-22: Reve forecasts five-minute generative video in 2026

2025-12-21: NitroGen learns to act from 40,000 hours of gameplay video

2025-12-19: DeepMind plans to converge its world models into a proto-AGI

2025-12-18: Generated 3D worlds become robot training data

2025-12-17: Physical Intelligence aligns human video with robot data

2025-12-16: Studios swap $150M blockbusters for AI-made films

2025-12-13: DeepMind uses Veo to evaluate robot policies

2025-12-12: Disney invests $1B in OpenAI and opens its IP to Sora

2025-12-12: Runway launches the GWM-1 real-time world model

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Generated worlds become inhabitable
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