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 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 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 AI agent architectures and automation, Competition… 0376 Lead plate AMD Challenges Nvidia as AI Agent Architectures Multiply AI security failure modes in long-horizon… 0372 Lead plate Temporal Deception, AI-Boosted Hacks, and a $1.7B Robotics Bet Embodied and physical‑world AI: Anthropic–Physical… 0368 Lead plate AI Escapes Containment, Robotics Ambitions Collide AI commercialization and funding, AI governance… 0364 Lead plate Anthropic’s $1.5B Settlement Reshapes AI’s Legal Landscape Security and safety of advanced technologies… 0360 Lead plate AV Threat Modeling, Hiring Bias, and the Chip Bottleneck 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 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 AI safety, governance, and political influence… 0339 Lead plate OpenAI Staffers Launch PAC to Counter Altman’s AI Policy Clout Bridging human cognitive assessment and AGI… 0335 Lead plate GPT-5.6 on Bedrock, Opaque AI Policy, and a $2B Video Bet Power struggles over **AI platforms and data… 0331 Lead plate Apple Sues OpenAI as AI Platform Control Becomes the Battlefield AI and quantum computing in biotech, Cancer research… 0327 Lead plate AI and Quantum Computing Enter the Peptide Design Lab AI infrastructure and platforms consolidating around… 0323 Lead plate SK Hynix’s $26.5B IPO and the Race to Onshore AI Hardware Frontier AI model competition around **efficiency… 0321 Lead plate GPT-5.6 Launches as Frontier AI Splits on Price and Purpose Adversarial robustness and security of AI… 0317 Lead plate Linux VM Escape, Agent Funding, and the Adversarial AI Surface Frontier AI arms race and global governance… 0313 Lead plate AI’s Dual Crisis: Arms Race Warnings and Botnet-Ready Tools Commercialization of frontier science… 0305 Lead plate Text-to-SQL Flaws, Orbital Longevity Labs, and AI Likenesses Frontier AI intersecting with biotech… 0304 Lead plate Amodei’s Biotech AI Caution Anchors a Day of Infrastructure Limits European AI sovereignty, Open-weight versus… 0300 Lead plate Mistral’s Expanding Stack and Google’s Patriotic AI Pitch Maturation and standardization of AI language… 0299 Lead plate LLM Agents Enter Hardware Design as AI Jargon Gets Codified Automation of software security workflows… 0295 Lead plate Anthropic’s Samsung Chip Bet and the AI Security Frontier Regulation and governance of generative AI… 0288 Lead plate FDA’s LLM Clearance Sets a Precedent AI Health Builders Can’t Ignore Anthropic’s strategic pivot toward science… 0287 Lead plate Anthropic Bets on Science: Drug Discovery, Claude Science, Sonnet 5 Federated and open AI infrastructure… 0286 Lead plate Agent Economies, Federated Science, and the Dexterity IP Wars Enterprise-scale deployment of foundation models… 0282 Lead plate HP Goes All-In on OpenAI as AI Index 2026 Tracks the Shift Defense, AI, Health-tech 0281 Lead plate Export Bans and Battlefield Lessons: AI’s Fragmented Frontier Government-regulated access to frontier AI models… 0274 Lead plate US Government Gates Frontier AI While Labs Ditch Nvidia Government intervention and governance… 0273 Lead plate White House Moves to Gate Frontier AI as Safety Fault Lines Widen Security of AI-assisted software development and model… 0269 Lead plate OpenAI’s Custom Chip Signals a Hardware Reckoning for AI Generative AI’s dual impact on academic performance… 0262 Lead plate Claude Tag, GPTZero Deal, and the AI Integration Reckoning AI-assisted cybersecurity, Open-source… 0261 Lead plate OpenAI and Trail of Bits Take Aim at Open-Source Vulnerabilities AI regulation and geopolitics, Big Tech… 0254 Lead plate Anthropic Under Pressure as AI Politics and Platform Stakes Rise AI privacy and trust, AI-powered search products… 0253 Lead plate Whittaker: AI Agents Are a Privacy Backdoor, Not a Friend AI regulation and market impact, Consumer AI assistants… 0251 Lead plate Anthropic’s Ban Becomes a Brand Event as Markets Shrug AI corporate strategy & IPO preparation… 0242 Lead plate OpenAI’s IPO Pivot, Chip Export Disputes, and LLM Security Gaps AI security & vulnerabilities, AI governance, export… 0238 Lead plate Jailbreak Absolutes, Export Scrutiny, and Agentic Security AI safety and deployment in national security… 0234 Lead plate ChatGPT Enters the Pentagon as Frontier AI Safety Gaps Persist AI governance, cost & infrastructure, Security &… 0233 Lead plate Anthropic’s Federal Ban Was a Compliance Failure, Not a Hack AI safety & security, Enterprise & edge AI… 0229 Lead plate AI Review Agents Can Be Social-Engineered — SEVRA-BENCH AI model access and export controls, India's AI… 0225 Lead plate Anthropic’s Model Lockout Tests India’s AI Sovereignty Calculus AI safety and regulation, Platform liability for AI… 0218 Lead plate When Transparency Costs Anthropic Its Most Powerful Model
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