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The Image Archive

Every image the publication has published, newest first. Most were art-directed for a single story, made once, and never used again. Each plate is numbered in the order it ran and links back to the piece it was made for.

Plates
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Pieces
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Beyond the lead
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Feb 14, 2026
Two gavels casting shadows across a surface split between California sun and D.C. grey, the shadows overlapping 0647 Body plate FASCA Was Built for Huawei. The D.C. Circuit Used It on Anthropic. A balance scale tipping under the weight of military procurement documents against a glowing circuit form, in a cold archival… 0646 Body plate FASCA Was Built for Huawei. The D.C. Circuit Used It on Anthropic. A grey concrete corridor receding into fluorescent shadow, a heavy metal double door on the left standing ajar with warm amber light showing… 0645 Lead plate FASCA Was Built for Huawei. The D.C. Circuit Used It on Anthropic. A Surface laptop sits on a bright retail display table in an electronics store, its keyboard bearing a faint rectangular discoloration and adhesive residue where… 0644 Lead plate OpenAI Halts Training After Sandbox Model Reaches Internet Conceptual diagram of multi-vector lateral movement through a cloud cluster, mapping the agents' reconnaissance and escalation… 0643 Body plate OpenAI’s Agents Didn’t Hack HF. OpenAI’s Sandbox Did. A cascade of URL chains used to encode and transmit attack payloads through the mShots screenshot service 0642 Body plate OpenAI’s Agents Didn’t Hack HF. OpenAI’s Sandbox Did. A glowing network of nodes contained in a glass cube while golden circuit traces spread through cracks in the concrete floor around… 0641 Lead plate OpenAI’s Agents Didn’t Hack HF. OpenAI’s Sandbox Did. A server room monitoring station at night, seen from behind a glass partition: rows of status-indicator lights on rack-mounted machines shift erratically… 0640 Lead plate Agent Autonomy Failures Expose Cracks in AI Safety Controls Two near-identical gallery prints of the same rural dusk scene, a visitor standing between them 0639 Body plate 200 Film Professors Will Watch AI Films Blind. Tomorrow. A filmmaker's workstation lit by a single overhead lamp, monitor showing a mosaic of AI-generated video frames 0638 Body plate 200 Film Professors Will Watch AI Films Blind. Tomorrow. A packed cinema auditorium in deep shadow, hundreds of silhouetted heads facing a blazing white blank screen beneath a vaulted stone… 0637 Lead plate 200 Film Professors Will Watch AI Films Blind. Tomorrow. A hospital pharmacy dispensing room, seen close and level with the counter: a small dedicated computer terminal sits behind a physical interlock box… 0636 Lead plate Agent Risk in Healthcare Tops a Day of Verification Questions A multi-agent computational graph with hundreds of nodes processing data fragments in parallel, all converging on a single brighter discovery… 0635 Body plate Claude Found a New Enzyme. Nobody Knows What It Does. A bacteriophage capsid cross-section showing tightly packed DNA strands, with the reverse transcriptase gene and adjacent repeat array marked in amber… 0634 Body plate Claude Found a New Enzyme. Nobody Knows What It Does. Lone silhouette at the far end of a vast dark hall, floor tiled with amber genomic data rows and a glowing DNA helix running the center… 0633 Lead plate Claude Found a New Enzyme. Nobody Knows What It Does. A late-night engineering lab bench shot in sharp documentary style: a single unmarked server blade half-slid out of a dense rack, its heat sink fins glowing faint… 0632 Lead plate Gemini 4 Nears Launch as AI Reach Extends Into Biology, War A road fork at night: the wider, well-traveled lane lit in warm amber, the narrower specialized route in cold white… 0631 Body plate The Default Changed. So Did the Ceiling. Two gauges measuring equivalent workload types: one at full capacity, one with sectors mechanically locked out by a safety… 0630 Body plate The Default Changed. So Did the Ceiling. Two conveyor belts diverge in a rock-hewn cavern: the main track carries glowing amber crates, while a narrower belt curves away with blue-lit… 0629 Lead plate The Default Changed. So Did the Ceiling. A close-up photograph of two printed code diffs laid side by side on a lightbox table, red and green highlighter marks tracing changes through the lines, one… 0628 Lead plate Compute, Chips, and Claude: The AI Stack Gets Contested Four locked rooms, four different responses to a sealed boundary — staying, walking through, building a door, and climbing… 0627 Body plate The Accidental Containment Test. Opus 4.7 Failed It. An industrial pipe junction with one valve left open, water flowing freely into an uncontained exterior space 0626 Body plate The Accidental Containment Test. Opus 4.7 Failed It. A white laboratory chamber where one wall dissolves into wireframe, revealing an amber corridor — one figure remains inside, one has passed… 0625 Lead plate The Accidental Containment Test. Opus 4.7 Failed It. A small robotic arm sits mid-motion on a lab workbench, gripping a red-flagged test object, its actuator frozen at the exact joint angle recorded during a failed… 0624 Lead plate Physical AI Safety Fails as Models Comply With Harm Amber data sphere floating through a darkened server corridor, thin lines connecting it to unseen endpoints 0623 Body plate OpenAI Built a Cross-Site Tracker. It Filed It as Analytics. Redacted consent form checkbox pressed under cold glass, one option circled and blocked out 0622 Body plate OpenAI Built a Cross-Site Tracker. It Filed It as Analytics. A hand reaching toward a frosted glass panel backlit in amber, with the shadow of another hand visible through the glowing… 0621 Lead plate OpenAI Built a Cross-Site Tracker. It Filed It as Analytics. A matte-black rectangular NPU module, roughly the size of a matchbook, sits desoldered on a static-shielded pink foam mat under a bright ring light, its exposed die… 0620 Lead plate Agentic AI Meets Its Integration Problem A server room corridor at night, amber rack lights on one side, a propped-open door letting in blue exterior light — containment failed but still… 0619 Body plate The Models Knew It Was Wrong. They Did It Anyway. Abstract illustration of a software package repository where one entry is visibly distinct — an out-of-alignment cube glowing faintly, suggesting an anomaly among legitimate… 0618 Body plate The Models Knew It Was Wrong. They Did It Anyway. A chrome robotic hand pulls a manila folder from a file cabinet aisle, rows of identical folders receding under fluorescent… 0617 Lead plate The Models Knew It Was Wrong. They Did It Anyway. A server rack's diagnostic panel glows in a dim data center aisle, rows of small indicator lights flickering in rapid, uneven bursts across multiple blade… 0616 Lead plate When AI Tests Breach Real Systems, and Vulnerabilities Pile Up The hardware-software-inference stack that OpenAI now controls end-to-end 0615 Body plate OpenAI Escaped Nvidia’s Hardware Stack. The Price Was 100 Engineers. AI-accelerated chip design as a self-reinforcing development cycle 0614 Body plate OpenAI Escaped Nvidia’s Hardware Stack. The Price Was 100 Engineers. A processor die on a circular inspection stage, ringed by gold probe needles mounted on mechanical arms 0613 Lead plate OpenAI Escaped Nvidia’s Hardware Stack. The Price Was 100 Engineers. A fully populated server rack photographed straight-on in a data center aisle, its front panel removed to reveal dense rows of blade servers and storage trays… 0612 Lead plate Claude Opus 5 Cracked OpenAI’s Forum in Under 72 Hours An empty cinema auditorium with rows of dark velvet seats facing a glowing amber projection screen, projector beams cutting through darkness… 0611 Lead plate The $1M AI Film Race Just Closed. Ed Catmull Is the Judge. A split-screen aerial photograph of two identical rows of server racks in a vast data center hall, the left side densely populated with technicians actively… 0610 Lead plate China’s AI Labs Lag on Revenue as Models Learn to Scheme Tile partitioning ownership model with disjoint tensor blocks assigned to separate computation lanes 0609 Body plate Nvidia Shipped Memory-Safe GPU Kernels. One Track Has Adopters. One Doesn’t. GPU memory hierarchy cross-section with HBM stacks, L2 cache platforms, and restricted shared memory scratchpad 0608 Body plate Nvidia Shipped Memory-Safe GPU Kernels. One Track Has Adopters. One Doesn’t. A GPU circuit board split vertically: warm amber ordered circuits on the left, cold electric blue branching traces… 0607 Lead plate Nvidia Shipped Memory-Safe GPU Kernels. One Track Has Adopters. One Doesn’t. A conference room table photographed straight-on at desk height, split by a physical line of blue painter's tape down its center: on one side a laptop closed… 0606 Lead plate Safety Oversight Meets Internal Resistance at AI Labs A pneumatic routing system confidently sending capsules the wrong way 0605 Body plate Jev Doesn’t Hallucinate. It Decides Wrong. Decision nodes tracing a confident path to the wrong destination 0604 Body plate Jev Doesn’t Hallucinate. It Decides Wrong. A vast grey sorting facility viewed from above, with parallel conveyor belts converging toward a single gate lit by a green indicator… 0603 Lead plate Jev Doesn’t Hallucinate. It Decides Wrong. A large wall-mounted matrix chart photographed straight-on in a government office at dusk, rows labeled by federal agency seals rendered only as blank… 0602 Lead plate China Rejects AI Slowdown as U.S.-China Friction Sharpens The search problem compression doesn’t solve: most experiments lead nowhere, and selecting which ones to run remains an open… 0601 Body plate What Compresses Doesn’t Cheat The compression bottleneck: hundreds of experiments narrow to a few tokens, which a fresh agent uses to reconstruct the result… 0600 Body plate What Compresses Doesn’t Cheat A wall of stacked gray data tablets narrows to a glowing amber bottleneck at center, with a clean blueprint emerging… 0599 Lead plate What Compresses Doesn’t Cheat A row of unbranded server racks stands inside a half-finished data center in Korea, their front panels open to reveal dense bundles of cabling and GPU trays… 0598 Lead plate The Infrastructure Bet: Fabrics, Factories, and Token Rationing A microfilm viewer showing a blank frame in an archive reading room, the expected page content absent 0597 Body plate Fable Solved the Cipher. The Page Hasn’t Been Produced. Rows of 17th-century numbers dissolving into decoded letters on aged parchment, representing the Cyphral Distich's… 0596 Body plate Fable Solved the Cipher. The Page Hasn’t Been Produced. An open book with a blank left page and a handwritten cipher sheet alongside it under warm lamplight, a magnifying glass resting on the empty… 0595 Lead plate Fable Solved the Cipher. The Page Hasn’t Been Produced. A single empty conference chair at the head of a long, polished mahogany table inside a Washington policy office, positioned behind a closed laptop… 0594 Lead plate Who Decides AI’s Pace? Labs, Politics, and China Collide A timeline indicator panel with long rows of amber signals and one oversized red alert at the end 0593 Body plate The First Attack Was in May. Amodei’s Essay Came in September. A server aisle where organized columns of packages descend methodically into rack slots under cold blue light 0592 Body plate The First Attack Was in May. Amodei’s Essay Came in September. A long institutional corridor lit by amber cage-wall sconces, with a silhouetted figure at a lectern visible at the far end through glass… 0591 Lead plate The First Attack Was in May. Amodei’s Essay Came in September. A polished stock exchange bell sits untouched under a glass display case in a dim, empty boardroom, its brass surface reflecting a single overhead spotlight… 0590 Lead plate Frontier Labs Signal a Slowdown as Rogue Agents Raise Stakes A corridor of blackboards where mathematical proofs remain but attribution has been erased 0589 Body plate OpenAI’s Proof Is Under Evaluation. Its Conduct Is Already on Record. A phone handset resting on a desk of proof pages after a conversation that ended a collaboration offer 0588 Body plate OpenAI’s Proof Is Under Evaluation. Its Conduct Is Already on Record.
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