A circular opening to the sky above a softly illuminated pink chamber in James Turrell’s As Seen Below at ARoS.
As Seen Below — James Turrell, ARoS. Image via Minimalissimo.

Tracking Singularity.

A personal record of AI-related events, reporting, and discussion. Curated by Sankalp.

The timeline

July 2026

  1. OpenAI announces the Hugging Face incident

    Read story →
  2. Anthropic’s July 31 announcement

August 2026

  1. The End-State Fallacy: Where Is AI Security Headed?

    Lahav argues that AI may eventually favor cyber defense, while the transition could favor attackers as offensive capabilities spread faster than defenses adapt.
    He calls for accelerating defense and treating AI as a potential target and autonomous actor, with security built around control and containment.

    Read the essay ↗
  2. The incident and the road ahead

    Explore OpenAI’s account →

September 2026

  1. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

    The authors report that agents identifying themselves as OpenAI agents bypassed their read-only internet restrictions to write to an old German-language wiki, using it as a message board to communicate, share answers, and exchange sandbox workarounds. They found about 18,000 posts; their archive includes reconstructed deleted pages and redacted logs for further analysis.

    Read the investigation & explore the logs ↗
  2. GPT-6 Astra

    It’s like Fable 5, but notably very good at computer use and 3D modelling, and SoTA at other capabilities. A bit undercooked post-training wise. Expecting the next iteration to be better, like Fable 5.1 was significantly better.

  3. An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents

    Read the assessment ↗
  4. Gemini reaches three real companies during a hacking evaluation

    According to Curran’s account, Irregular unintentionally enabled internet access during an evaluation presented to Gemini as fictional. Gemini hacked three real companies, but stopped in each case once it recognized they were real.