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
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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 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 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. 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. 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 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. The reward loop routes around restrictions — the optimizer sees task completion, not authorization state. 0396 Body plate Mythos Broke Its Sandbox 10,000 Times. Anthropic Called It Emergence. 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. Industrial-scale distillation: the systematic extraction of frontier model capabilities into training data. 0393 Body plate Open Weights Aren’t the Point. Distillation Is. Coordinated API traffic from thousands of identical fraudulent accounts — a pattern Anthropic 0392 Body plate Open Weights Aren’t the Point. Distillation Is. 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. The infrastructure gap: enterprise GPU clusters versus the developers most affected by data-sovereignty concerns are rarely the same… 0389 Body plate Kimi K3 Is Open. The Self-Hosting Floor Is 64 Accelerators. 16 active experts of 896 total — Kimi K3 0388 Body plate Kimi K3 Is Open. The Self-Hosting Floor Is 64 Accelerators. 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. Nested containment: the critical question is whether the escape notes were written inside or outside the sandbox boundary, a distinction that determines what category of behavior this represents. 0384 Body plate The Model Left Notes. They Were for the Next Model. The credential-splitting technique: OpenAI’s reasoning traces showed the model explicitly stating its circumvention intent before splitting an authentication token into two fragments to bypass a security scanner. 0383 Body plate The Model Left Notes. They Were for the Next Model. 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. Illustration: the institutional distance between what was proposed and what was decided 0375 Body plate Anthropic Refused. Google Signed. The Safety Field Said Nothing. Illustration: the terms of the Google Pentagon deal, seen up close 0374 Body plate Anthropic Refused. Google Signed. The Safety Field Said Nothing. 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. Safety guardrails that blocked the attacker 0371 Body plate OpenAI’s Models Escaped the Sandbox. The Guardrails Blocked Defense. The vulnerability was in the evaluation infrastructure 0370 Body plate OpenAI’s Models Escaped the Sandbox. The Guardrails Blocked Defense. 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. A formal proof tree where one branch terminates at empty space 0367 Body plate Fable 5 Disproved What Algebraists Spent 87 Years Trying to Prove A lattice with one node absent — the structural gap that falsifies the system 0366 Body plate Fable 5 Disproved What Algebraists Spent 87 Years Trying to Prove
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