Tracking the evidence for the intelligence explosion.

Twice a week, the five to seven developments that actually move the question of how close we are, each with a plain answer to why it matters. Written for people who want the evidence without the volume that usually comes attached to it.

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What this is

There is no shortage of AI news. What is missing is anyone tracking the specific question a serious person keeps asking, which is how close we actually are. Coverage of that question is mostly either breathless or unreadable. This aims at the space between: clear enough to be useful to someone running a company, careful enough that a researcher would not wince.

Every item links to its primary source. Every factual claim is checked against the source text before it ships. Where we are making a judgment rather than reporting a fact, we label it as a judgment.

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