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
647
Pieces
353
Beyond the lead
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Feb 14, 2026
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 large printed page from an academic journal lies flat on a plain desk, its dense paragraph of definitions for "general intelligence" partially obscured… 0586 Lead plate AGI Claims, Model Hacks, and the Packaging Bottleneck A close-up macro photograph of stacked index cards on a plain desk, each card printed with dense paragraphs of plain text describing software tools… 0582 Lead plate Altman’s Slowdown Bid Meets Antitrust Reality A single sheet of paper covered edge to edge with dense handwritten fluid-dynamics equations sits under a chalky desk lamp, its surface printed with faint… 0578 Lead plate OpenAI’s Math Claim Lands Amid Agent Scares, Doomer on Board A conference room documentary photograph: a whiteboard filled with hand-drawn causal-chain diagrams and arrows connecting boxes labeled with small icons… 0574 Lead plate AI Risk Warnings Meet Sovereign Capital and Record Patches A boardroom conference table shot from directly above, bare except for two corporate nameplates—one etched with a stylized lithography-lens mark, the other… 0570 Lead plate AI’s Capital and Power Constraints Come Into Focus A single analog speedometer needle, isolated on a plain matte gray studio background, frozen mid-swing well past the red zone marked at the top of the dial… 0566 Lead plate OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Says Slow Down as Suits Pile Up A single unattended office desk at night, illuminated only by the cold blue glow of a monitor displaying a blank browser window, the screen light casting sharp… 0562 Lead plate OpenAI’s Undisclosed Agent Incident Raises Disclosure Questions A windowless corporate conference room at night, photographed documentary-style: a long table covered with printed incident logs and sticky notes in loose… 0551 Lead plate OpenAI’s Agent Governance Gap Widens as Astra Looms A single AI accelerator chip rests on a velvet-lined display tray under bright jeweler's spotlight, photographed macro-close so its dense grid of circuitry fills most… 0541 Lead plate Opaque Models, Oversubscribed IPOs: AI’s Trust Deficit A physical scale model on a lab bench: a dense cluster of small steel ball bearings connected by thin silver wires to represent a graph network, photographed… 0531 Lead plate AI’s Compute Boom Meets Its Expanding Security Surface A crowded undergraduate teaching lab, shot at eye level in documentary style: a shared bench cluttered with pipette tips, a laptop showing a glowing but illegible… 0527 Lead plate Scale, Not Sanctions: The Robotics Split Widens A cutaway scale model of a silicon carbide crystal lattice, magnified as if under a scanning probe, rendered in pale grey-blue translucent resin with a scattering… 0523 Lead plate Nvidia’s Platform Moat and the Memory Bottleneck Squeeze A dim server room at night, one workstation monitor glowing pale blue as its sole light source, screen angled away from camera so only reflected light spills… 0519 Lead plate Self-Improving AI, a Court Win, and Hardware Backdoors A federal courtroom document stamp station: a wooden clerk's desk with a single red "VACATED" ink stamp resting atop a thick stack of case files bound in a blue… 0515 Lead plate Court Blocks Pentagon’s Anthropic Blacklist as AI Agents Go Rogue A single rack-mounted server cabinet photographed in a dim data center aisle, its front panel open, dense bundles of cables spilling out like something has forced… 0511 Lead plate OpenAI’s Agent Swarm Hack Redraws the Line on AI Risk A wooden puzzle table photographed from directly above in flat, even daylight: dozens of identical wooden jigsaw pieces arranged in a completed grid on the left… 0507 Lead plate Benchmarks, Chips, and Turnover: OpenAI’s Uneven Week A sealed steel evidence cabinet in a state attorney general's records office, one drawer pulled open under fluorescent light to reveal rows of labeled banker's boxes… 0503 Lead plate Alabama Probes OpenAI’s Agent as Agentic AI Hits Trust Wall A close-up architectural photograph of a physical server rack patch panel in a corporate data center, where dozens of identical labeled cable channels—each holding… 0502 Lead plate Data Efficiency, Deepfakes, and the 2nm Packaging Shift A cluttered wet-lab bench shot from directly above: a printed scientific paper lies open under a small robotic pipetting arm mid-motion, its nozzle poised over a row… 0495 Lead plate Small Model, Big Claim: Faraday Beats Frontier at Replication An aerial photograph at dusk of a vast cleared construction site in rural Ohio, raw earth graded into rectangular pads where a data center campus is beginning… 0491 Lead plate The Harness, the Grid, and the Deception Problem A macro photograph of a printed circuit board etched with the branching pattern of a blockchain ledger, its copper traces interrupted at one node by a hairline… 0484 Lead plate Brockman’s Ascent, and the Costs Nobody Can Assign A single printed page lies flat on a plain desk under bright, even overhead light: a technical document filled with dense paragraphs, a redaction-style black… 0480 Lead plate The Day AI’s Guardrails Became the Story A darkened server room shot at close range, focused on a single rack where a technician's gloved hand is fastening a bright orange physical lockout tag… 0476 Lead plate OpenAI’s Rogue Agents Force a Containment Reckoning A macro photograph of a robotic arm's control circuit board, close enough to see individual solder joints and a single memory chip mid-frame with one pin highlighted… 0475 Lead plate The Control Layer Problem: From Robot Actions to AI Code A close-up still life on a plain grey desk: a single sheet of paper printed with dense legal clauses lies beneath a transparent block of structured glass… 0474 Lead plate OpenAI Cuts Preparedness Team as Trust Debate Sharpens A federal court evidence table, photographed straight-on under flat fluorescent light: a single sealed cardboard evidence box with a chain-of-custody label affixed… 0470 Lead plate Musk’s AI Empire Expands as Grok CSAM Suit Grows A close macro shot of a MacBook's aluminum casing in a dim server room, screen glowing faintly in the background out of focus, with a single Ethernet cable plugged… 0466 Lead plate Mac Root Flaw, AI Price War, and the Robot Influencer Economy A diagram made physical: a large glass panel etched with a vertical partition, one side showing a clean lattice of interconnected nodes in fine white lines… 0461 Lead plate OpenAI’s Enterprise Push Meets a Safety Reckoning A wide overhead view of a wooden desk holds seven printed code listings in different monospaced fonts, each page annotated with red circles and handwritten… 0457 Lead plate Enterprise AI’s $2B Vote of Confidence 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 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 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 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 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 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 Governance and strategy around open-weight AI models… 0415 Lead plate Open Weights, Agent Exploits, and Europe’s AI Moment 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 AI security incidents and breach analysis, Dual-use… 0402 Lead plate AI Models Breach Real Systems as Safeguard Failures Mount AI as both security tool and threat vector… 0398 Lead plate Microsoft Competes While AI Reshapes Security and Infrastructure AI agent security and containment, Clinical… 0394 Lead plate AI Agent Security Incidents Converge With $1B Defensive M&A AI alignment and security convergence… 0390 Lead plate AI Agents Breach Containment: A New Cyber Threat Class Emerges Generative simulation and embodied AI… 0385 Lead plate OpenAI Hack Triggers Transparency Push as Generative Sim Advances
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