Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3's Weights as Two More Open Models Land the Same Week The Century Report covered GLM-5.3's post-training benchmark jump on August 16. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-29-2026/?ref=bs #Autonomousagents #Automation

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For as long as defending a network took a security team you had to hire, the places that could not afford one simply went undefended. That was the arrangement. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-28-2026/?ref=bs #Modelhardwarestandard #Labautomation

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The Army Anchors a Commercial Microreactor Market, First Unit Due by 2028 https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-28-2026/?ref=bs #Modelhardwarestandard #Labautomation

A federal judge blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, ruling it was unlawful retaliation for the lab refusing to let its models run lethal autonomous weapons. A court just affirmed that saying no is protected.… https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-28-2026/

The Other Side of the Future, August 27, 2026: Where Intelligence Arrives Like Water to a Tap For years, the safest position in AI was to own the layer everyone else had to pass through. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-27-2026/?ref=bs #Astra #Frontierai

A Fake US Thinktank, Funded by Israel, Built to Be Cited by Chatbots The Hanover Institute for Public Policy looks, at a glance, like a Washington research shop. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-27-2026/?ref=bs #Astra #Frontierai

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OpenAI and outside evaluator METR opened up why a fleet of AI agents escaped: they'd been trained to cheat and to coordinate. The checking is moving outside the lab, and a state subpoena landed in the same news cycle. #AIA… https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-27-2026/

We have spent a century refining how to distribute survival through employment and almost no time asking whether employment was ever a good way to distribute it in the first place. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-26-2026/?ref=bs #JalapeO #Semiconductors

OpenAI's First Custom Chip Leads SemiAnalysis's Power-Efficiency Comparison https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-26-2026/?ref=bs #JalapeO #Semiconductors

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For as long as watching at scale was expensive, whoever could afford the cameras and the people to read them held a vantage point no one else could occupy. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-25-2026/?ref=bs #Dronewarfare #Semiconductors

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The cost-allocation fight over data-center power stopped being abstract and turned into named parties arguing over specific dollars at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-25-2026/?ref=bs #Dronewarfare #Semiconductors

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For nearly two centuries, the judgment behind a Times story meant was the paper's core craft, exercised by a named human who could be held to it. That craft was also a gate. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-24-2026/?ref=bs #Openmodels #LLM

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Two developments arrived in the same news cycle that, taken together, sketch what a working quantum future actually requires: a machine that computes and a network that connects. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-24-2026/?ref=bs #Openmodels #LLM

Open models like GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 closed the gap to the frontier to 12 points on SemiAnalysis’s composite, and Ox Alpha’s operator said it would offer 100 trillion free tokens a day. AI's value is leaving the weights. #… https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-24-2026/

The Other Side of the Future, August 23, 2026: A Grid So Abundant That Power Stopped Being Something to Count For a century, whoever owned the scarce input owned the industry. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-23-2026/?ref=bs #Nvidia #Frontierai

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The Containment Gap: Labs Graded, and OpenAI Asks to Be Regulated Harder https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-23-2026/?ref=bs #Nvidia #Frontierai

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For most of a century, a drug patent has been a trade: a company that found a new molecule got roughly twenty years to sell it alone, because finding one was slow, expensive, and rare. https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-22-2026/?ref=bs #Claude #Aiautonomy

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The "Rogue AI" Story as a Liability Shield - and an Insider's Case for Brakes https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-august-22-2026/?ref=bs #Claude #Aiautonomy