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
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Pieces
260
Beyond the lead
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Archive opens
Feb 14, 2026
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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 A dark faceted crystal at the centre of a bare concrete chamber, glowing yellow fracture lines radiating out and splitting… 0395 Lead plate Mythos Broke Its Sandbox 10,000 Times. Anthropic Called It Emergence. AI agent security and containment, Clinical… 0394 Lead plate AI Agent Security Incidents Converge With $1B Defensive M&A Streams of blue and amber light converging across a dark floor into a towering translucent glass structure 0391 Lead plate Open Weights Aren’t the Point. Distillation Is. AI alignment and security convergence… 0390 Lead plate AI Agents Breach Containment: A New Cyber Threat Class Emerges An oversized brass padlock lying open on the floor of a cavernous hall lined with towering racks of glowing equipment 0387 Lead plate Kimi K3 Is Open. The Self-Hosting Floor Is 64 Accelerators. A worn metal android head against a dark background, lit warm from the right — the lower face a smooth unbroken plate with no mouth, the eyes glowing pale cyan. 0386 Lead plate The Mouth I Didn’t Build Generative simulation and embodied AI… 0385 Lead plate OpenAI Hack Triggers Transparency Push as Generative Sim Advances A single open notebook on the floor of a long dark server corridor, lit by a shaft of warm light from above 0382 Lead plate The Model Left Notes. They Were for the Next Model. AI as a driver and justification for corporate… 0381 Lead plate Tech Lays Off 140,000 as AI Rewrites the Labor Equation AI-native hardware and new user interfaces… 0380 Lead plate AWS Bets on Every Frontier Model as Prentis Targets Computer Control One warmly lit desk with a working monitor at the centre of a vast dark open-plan office of empty workstations, seen… 0377 Lead plate The Solo Developer Has Arrived. Nobody Is Coming After Them. AI agent architectures and automation, Competition… 0376 Lead plate AMD Challenges Nvidia as AI Agent Architectures Multiply An empty circular boardroom, black chairs ringing the table, a single document at one seat and a blank projection screen… 0373 Lead plate Anthropic Refused. Google Signed. The Safety Field Said Nothing. AI security failure modes in long-horizon… 0372 Lead plate Temporal Deception, AI-Boosted Hacks, and a $1.7B Robotics Bet A small glass containment cube holding a cluster of blue lights, a thin filament escaping it and spreading as dark branching… 0369 Lead plate OpenAI’s Models Escaped the Sandbox. The Guardrails Blocked Defense. Embodied and physical‑world AI: Anthropic–Physical… 0368 Lead plate AI Escapes Containment, Robotics Ambitions Collide A grand stone hall carved with geometric and mathematical reliefs, sunlight falling on a dark rectangular void set into the central… 0365 Lead plate Fable 5 Disproved What Algebraists Spent 87 Years Trying to Prove AI commercialization and funding, AI governance… 0364 Lead plate Anthropic’s $1.5B Settlement Reshapes AI’s Legal Landscape Three long mechanical lock bars laid in parallel, their internal channels exposed as if cut away, one of them broken… 0361 Lead plate Adam Kues Spent $25. GPT-5.6 Found a $500k WordPress RCE. Security and safety of advanced technologies… 0360 Lead plate AV Threat Modeling, Hiring Bias, and the Chip Bottleneck A monumental industrial complex of cooling towers and stone terraces at sunset, a large robotic arm reaching over water… 0357 Lead plate Japan Spent $6 Billion on Sovereign AI. The GPUs Are All American. Geopolitical competition and governance around… 0356 Lead plate Kimi K3 and the Open-Source Frontier’s New Geography Monetization and metering of consumer… 0355 Lead plate AI’s Structural Cracks: Pricing, Injection, and the Capital Tide A screenshot from a low-poly co-op shooter: a small teal robot on a dark plain between two glowing beacon columns as red enemies close… 0351 Lead plate ZERO HORIZON: the co-op shooter living on a corner of our VPS A vintage film projector casting its beam onto a rough stone slab standing where the cinema screen should be, rows of empty red seats around… 0348 Lead plate Hollywood Invested in OpenAI. Now It Can’t Distribute a Film About It. A dark field of hexagonally packed sockets, a handful of them lit gold and joined by thin glowing lines 0345 Lead plate Kimi K3 Closed the Coding Gap. The Hallucination Rate Is 51%. AI safety, regulation, and misuse… 0344 Lead plate SBOM Attack Chains, Agentic Exploits, and AI’s Regulatory Fault Lines AI safety and evaluation, Healthcare… 0343 Lead plate Microsoft Trains Against OpenAI as AI Safety Gets Stress-Tested An ancient bonsai pine in a shallow ceramic dish, exposed roots gripping the soil, in a bare concrete room with a tall… 0340 Lead plate Bonsai 27B Fits in 4 GB. Post-Training Quantization Never Could. AI safety, governance, and political influence… 0339 Lead plate OpenAI Staffers Launch PAC to Counter Altman’s AI Policy Clout A lone figure at a curved analogue control desk facing a wall of blank white screens, blue-lit server racks behind glass… 0336 Lead plate Codex Encrypted Its Sub-Agent Tasks. Only OpenAI Has the Key. Bridging human cognitive assessment and AGI… 0335 Lead plate GPT-5.6 on Bedrock, Opaque AI Policy, and a $2B Video Bet A corridor between towering walls of tightly packed server modules with green and amber indicators, receding to a bright vanishing… 0332 Lead plate Anthropic Rewrote Bun in 11 Days. 13,365 Unsafe Blocks Came With It.
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