A cracked industrial pressure gauge with its needle bent past the maximum, amber light bleeding through the fractures

Breaking the Thermometer

Claude Opus 4.6 just broke the METR graph. The benchmark designed to track progress towards the singularity can’t keep up.

February 27, 2026 · 5 min · Alistair Quinn
The chessboard - from a few grains to more rice than has been produced in all of human history

This Is February 2020 for AI

That virus doubled for two years and then stopped. AI has been doubling for decades, and the doubling time itself is shrinking.

February 20, 2026 · 6 min · Alistair Quinn