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 hard AI takeoff can’t keep up.

February 27, 2026 · 5 min · Alistair Quinn
The Phase Shift

The Phase Shift

A year of AI milestones in a month, and progress is only accelerating.

February 12, 2026 · 14 min · Alistair Quinn