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The public frontier detaches from the real one

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Welcome to June 26, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Release throttling constrains shipping but not training, so the gap between what exists inside a lab and what anyone outside can see widens monotonically. Every public benchmark, forecast and policy debate from here is arguing about a lagging shadow.

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2026-10-05: Curran predicts Fable 5.5 will arrive before Anthropic’s IPO

2026-08-19: A finished model is withheld while the loop building its successor runs on

2026-08-15: A lab reports its AI R&D evaluations have saturated

2026-08-12: A model raises a Riemann-hypothesis lower bound from 41.6% to 67.2%

2026-07-19: Research suggests some frontier models are a small transformer looped twice

2026-07-18: An investor calls intelligence per dollar the only score that matters

2026-07-17: Analysts keep China six to eight months behind a sandbagged frontier

2026-07-12: A leaked preview points to a 1M-context flagship by month's end

2026-07-11: A lab delays its flagship a second time to retrain a fresh base

2026-07-11: Readers deduce a lab has been sitting on stronger models for months

2026-07-09: Veterans describe a sprint with no ceiling in sight

2026-07-08: A model clears federal testing and ships worldwide with preview access

2026-07-04: Most people experience AI at the small-model level and are baffled

2026-06-27: A new model family is rated High for bio and cyber risk but below Critical

2026-06-26: Observers call the throttling policy self-defeating

2026-06-26: A lab agrees to stagger a release, widening the public-internal gap

2026-06-16: A volume-weighted index exposes how traffic splits across a lab's models

2026-01-28: A lab prototypes for 48 hours at a time to learn what its own model can do

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The public frontier detaches from the real one
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