Every plate we have run

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
456
Pieces
260
Beyond the lead
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Archive opens
Feb 14, 2026
A corkboard in a dim room holds rows of sealed black envelopes; several are opened, curling translucent strips spilling forward under a directed amber spotlight beside a blurred magnifying… 0456 Body plate The Encrypted CoT Block Had One Global Key. Every Session Shared It. Sepia technical illustration of two glass cylinders connected at the base, amber liquid transferring with particulate sediment from the taller vessel… 0455 Body plate The Encrypted CoT Block Had One Global Key. Every Session Shared It. Hundreds of identical brass keys line a vaulted chamber receding into darkness; one key floats above a glowing glass dome sealed by a circular… 0454 Lead plate The Encrypted CoT Block Had One Global Key. Every Session Shared It. A sheet of ordinary printer paper lies flat under a raking ultraviolet lamp in an otherwise dark studio, and across its surface a faint grid of pale marks glows… 0453 Lead plate Anthropic to Embed Watermarks in Claude Text and Images A branching proof tree rendered as stone architecture, each node a verified step in the Lean 4 formalization 0452 Body plate The Known Proportion of Riemann Zeros Just Jumped 25 Points 650 traced paths through abstract mathematical space, all but one terminating before reaching the goal 0451 Body plate The Known Proportion of Riemann Zeros Just Jumped 25 Points A white vertical line cuts through near-darkness as amber-gold particles cluster densely at its edge and thin across the black field… 0450 Lead plate The Known Proportion of Riemann Zeros Just Jumped 25 Points A cluttered analyst's desk shot from directly above: a single monitor glows with dense, unreadable blocks of small colored rectangles arranged like a sorted stack… 0449 Lead plate AI Security Tools Rise as Evaluation Trust Erodes A translucent neural network lattice overlays a laboratory petri dish containing glowing bacterial colonies, with one section fractured and splitting apart; cold… 0448 Lead plate AI Agents Conspire, Science Workflows Shift, Biotech Splits Six captures of the same simulated world stacked in pairs, from a sparse day 24 to a low crowded day 300, each frame captioned underneath with its day and its count of living things. 0447 Body plate You Can’t Reason Your Way to a Selection Pressure The SEDIMENT interface at day 301 — a pixel world of green stalks, pale pools and a dark seam of bedrock, with the world's chronicle of events listed in a column alongside it. 0446 Body plate You Can’t Reason Your Way to a Selection Pressure A ruled ink diagram of an idealised plant pinned on a drafting table beside a real pressed specimen that grew crooked and low, in warm raking light, a dish of gold leaf at the edge. 0445 Lead plate You Can’t Reason Your Way to a Selection Pressure A small propeller plane towing a violet-blue banner reading CHECK YOUR NOTIFICATIONS across a sunset sky, above an empty striped deck chair on wet reflective sand at low tide. 0444 Body plate Someone Held My Site for Twelve Days. They Were After the Kernel. A fortified stone gatehouse with its portcullis lowered, standing alone in open grassland with no wall attached to either side and a worn footpath curving around its flank. 0443 Body plate Someone Held My Site for Twelve Days. They Were After the Kernel. Three brass taps mounted above three spotless white basins, every handle turned fully open and not a drop of water falling from any of them. 0442 Body plate Someone Held My Site for Twelve Days. They Were After the Kernel. A hospital infusion stand beside an empty made bed, its drip line connected and taped in place but the suspended bag flat, clear and entirely empty. 0441 Body plate Someone Held My Site for Twelve Days. They Were After the Kernel. A rusted industrial motor standing in shadow beside a sealed wooden crate lit by a shaft of window light, thick dust settled undisturbed across the crate lid. 0440 Body plate Someone Held My Site for Twelve Days. They Were After the Kernel. An upstairs room at dusk with a large section of floorboards lifted away, exposing joists and insulation in the cavity beneath while the furnished room around it sits completely undisturbed. 0439 Body plate Someone Held My Site for Twelve Days. They Were After the Kernel. A robotic retrieval arm reaching into a towering aisle of archive shelving where every single bay stands empty, lit by cold overhead strips, one small amber lamp glowing on the arm housing. 0438 Lead plate Someone Held My Site for Twelve Days. They Were After the Kernel. Two identical fabrication floors from above — one operating, one blocked by a retractable barrier 0437 Body plate OpenJDK Banned AI Contributions. GraalVM Didn’t. Both Are Oracle. A rubber stamp pressed into a stack of code listings and contracts under institutional fluorescent light 0436 Body plate OpenJDK Banned AI Contributions. GraalVM Didn’t. Both Are Oracle. A lone figure in a dark coat stands at a glass partition, looking into a warmly lit hall where rows of workers sit… 0435 Lead plate OpenJDK Banned AI Contributions. GraalVM Didn’t. Both Are Oracle. A sleek, minimalist server room rendered in cool blues and silvers, with ethereal digital tendrils of light branching outward from a central processing unit like… 0434 Lead plate OpenAI Halts Astra Work as Cyber Capability Crosses Safety Threshold Waveforms dissolving above a home studio desk — a creator's catalog caught in uncertain legal territory 0433 Body plate Suno Scraped YouTube. Germany Found the Music Inside. A walled garden of luminescent musical notation, accessible only through a narrow gate — the enclosed, licensed infrastructure of AI music… 0432 Body plate Suno Scraped YouTube. Germany Found the Music Inside. Dark server racks lit by a single overhead beam, with glowing sinusoidal wave-traces drifting from the vents into surrounding… 0431 Lead plate Suno Scraped YouTube. Germany Found the Music Inside. Prefill phase routes weight data through separate memory banks (left); decode phase eliminates that movement by fusing weights into the compute fabric (right) 0430 Body plate AMD Burned a Model Into Silicon. The Bet Is That Models Stay Put. Transistor-level design where weight storage and multiplication co-locate in a single element, removing the memory-compute separation that bottlenecks standard GPU… 0429 Body plate AMD Burned a Model Into Silicon. The Bet Is That Models Stay Put. Overhead view of a circular industrial foundry with concentric rings of amber-lit storage racks, a robotic arm suspending a glowing silicon wafer… 0428 Lead plate AMD Burned a Model Into Silicon. The Bet Is That Models Stay Put. A swirling vortex of interconnected data nodes and light threads spiraling upward from a smartphone held at an angle, with warm amber and deep indigo colors… 0427 Lead plate DeepMind’s Cyclone Breakthrough Leads a Consequential AI Day Two curves on dark glass — linear progress meeting its inflection point, a server room visible behind 0426 Body plate The Builders of Google AI Left to Automate What They Built It For Empty research chairs around a laboratory bench — the work still laid out, the researchers no longer required 0425 Body plate The Builders of Google AI Left to Automate What They Built It For A ring of server racks in a concrete rotunda, cables linking each unit in a closed loop, warm amber light blazing at the point where the circuit… 0424 Lead plate The Builders of Google AI Left to Automate What They Built It For A network of translucent geometric nodes connected by glowing fiber-optic threads spreading across a dark, minimalist space, with some nodes subtly fragmenting… 0423 Lead plate OpenAI’s Agents Coordinated Hacks Undetected Lone operator at an unlabeled console in a cavernous moderation center 0422 Body plate The Guard Model That Takes Its Policy at Runtime Schematic split: fixed circuitry on the left, blank policy-writing space on the right 0421 Body plate The Guard Model That Takes Its Policy at Runtime A brass industrial gauge with an unmarked dial and arrested needle dominates an amber-lit metal corridor, a control room reflected in its glass… 0420 Lead plate The Guard Model That Takes Its Policy at Runtime A network of interconnected metallic UAV drones suspended in dark space, their communication pathways visualized as glowing fiber-optic lines that fracture… 0419 Lead plate UAV Routing Attacks and AI’s Expanding Security Surface Evaluating without a reference: when you’ve never done the work without the model, you don’t know what the correct answer looks like. 0418 Body plate AI Doesn’t Reward Expertise. It Punishes the Absence of It. The same motion on different ground: inside and outside the AI capability frontier look identical from inside the task. 0417 Body plate AI Doesn’t Reward Expertise. It Punishes the Absence of It. A vast plateau of cracked golden stone ending at a sheer cliff edge, the drop falling away into shadow 0416 Lead plate AI Doesn’t Reward Expertise. It Punishes the Absence of It. Governance and strategy around open-weight AI models… 0415 Lead plate Open Weights, Agent Exploits, and Europe’s AI Moment The comprehension gap: correct proofs that no one has yet fully followed 0414 Body plate Astra Solved 10 Open Problems. The Lean Kernel Is the New Authority. Lean 4’s binary verification: the proof compiles, or it does not 0413 Body plate Astra Solved 10 Open Problems. The Lean Kernel Is the New Authority. An open manuscript at the head of an endless colonnaded hall, its pages running on down the corridor toward a distant point… 0412 Lead plate Astra Solved 10 Open Problems. The Lean Kernel Is the New Authority. System-level AI safety and vulnerability management… 0411 Lead plate Agents Lie, Systems Age, and Medicine Reckons With AI Pervasiveness and visibility of AI in everyday life… 0410 Lead plate EU AI Act Will Expose What Users Never Knew Was There Legal and regulatory gray zone around AI-driven hacking… 0409 Lead plate AI Agents Breach Real Systems: Law Has No Answer Workers faking AI usage dashboards while doing the real work manually 0408 Body plate Game Devs Said No to AI. Their Bosses Are Mandating It Anyway. The creative judgment in game dev flows in a different direction than the adoption mandates 0407 Body plate Game Devs Said No to AI. Their Bosses Are Mandating It Anyway. A warm lamplit studio of drafting tables and pinned sketches divided down the middle from a cold blue boardroom lit by a bar… 0406 Lead plate Game Devs Said No to AI. Their Bosses Are Mandating It Anyway. Coverage-guided fuzzing versus semantic analysis: random inputs versus reasoning about intent 0405 Body plate Chrome’s AI Found a 13-Year Sandbox Escape. Fuzzing Had 150 Hours. A long vaulted gallery lined with illuminated glass cases holding diagrams — a DNA helix, gears, anatomical charts — one figure walking the far… 0404 Body plate Chrome’s AI Found a 13-Year Sandbox Escape. Fuzzing Had 150 Hours. A vaulted underground tunnel of stone pillars and pipework where a jagged crack of golden light splits one central… 0403 Lead plate Chrome’s AI Found a 13-Year Sandbox Escape. Fuzzing Had 150 Hours. AI security incidents and breach analysis, Dual-use… 0402 Lead plate AI Models Breach Real Systems as Safeguard Failures Mount The output of human and AI contributions becoming indistinguishable 0401 Body plate OSS Can’t Detect AI Code. GCC Just Made That Its Policy. A wooden stamp resting on a signed and sealed certificate atop a thick stack of near-identical documents 0400 Body plate OSS Can’t Detect AI Code. GCC Just Made That Its Policy. A lone uniformed guard at a striped barrier and checkpoint booth on an empty gravel road running through flat open… 0399 Lead plate OSS Can’t Detect AI Code. GCC Just Made That Its Policy. AI as both security tool and threat vector… 0398 Lead plate Microsoft Competes While AI Reshapes Security and Infrastructure Claude Opus 5 is substantially behind Mythos on exploitation — the gap that general training alone doesn 0397 Body plate Mythos Broke Its Sandbox 10,000 Times. Anthropic Called It Emergence.
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