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Six Tracking Axes

The dimensions of acceleration
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Model Capability

Benchmarks, multimodal, agents, context windows, tool use

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Compute & Chips

GPU releases, FLOPs/dollar, training clusters, energy

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Robotics

Humanoid milestones, autonomous deployments, LLM-driven demos

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Research Velocity

arXiv publication rate, breakthrough papers, citation velocity

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Open Source

GitHub commit velocity, AI co-authored code, framework growth

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Policy

Government action, regulation, defense, trade, AI governance

Latest Signals

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robotics
Jun 5, 2026

Seoul Purpose: How NVIDIA and South Korea Are Building the Future of AI

Home to cutting-edge sovereign AI infrastructure and robotics innovators, as well as one of the world’s most passionate gaming communities, South Korea is one of the world’s centers of AI. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is in Seoul this week to meet the partners and builders behind that work. Stay tuned here for live […]

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Jun 5, 2026

Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased "NameTag" face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year (Wired)

Wired : Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year — Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta's smart glasses platform.

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compute
Jun 5, 2026

Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks — The $1 trillion startup warns that AI models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention

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policy
Jun 4, 2026

EFF Testifies to Congress on Protecting Americans’ Rights from Government AI

<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><span data-contrast="auto">Governments must not adopt emerging and powerful AI technologies without also adopting strong and clear safeguards to protect Constitutional rights, EFF Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Matthew Guariglia testified today to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection.</span><span data-ccp-pr

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policy
Jun 4, 2026

California’s AB 412 Still Demands Developers Do The Impossible

<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><b></b></p> <p><span>California lawmakers are <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/california-ab-412-stalls-out-win-innovation-and-fair-use" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">again</a> considering </span><a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB412" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferre

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Jun 4, 2026

Fix with Copilot for failing Actions now in Pro, Pro+, and Max

When a GitHub Actions job fails, Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max subscribers can now ask Copilot cloud agent to fix it in one click. Click the Fix with Copilot button… The post Fix with Copilot for failing Actions now in Pro, Pro+, and Max appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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