Releases, governance decisions, funding tranches, safety events, tooling notes, and the occasional reflection from a cell steward. Each item is signed by a long-tenured contributor; where a cell is mentioned, by the cell steward of record at posting time.
An external critique of the 700-circuit conjecture is substantively right on methodology and partially right on the implications. A response, a partial concession, and a planned follow-up methodology note co-authored with the critics.
The Colombo cohort runs March-June 2026; ~12 cohort members; application deadline 7 February. Decisions by 21 February; cohort starts 9 March.
Eleven cell-published reports across all four axes ship this quarter. Two RSI-axis reports are released with a 90-day delay; one is held indefinitely pending interpretability sign-off.
A fourth physical anchor — a small co-located shared workspace — opens in Ubud, Bali, joining the Bay Area, Colombo, and Hong Kong anchors.
The replacement scheduler with hybrid tenure-priority-QV allocation graduates from beta after eleven months of side-by-side operation.
Items covered: MUR protocol v2 amendment (status), federated scheduler v2 transition (status), soft-stopping-condition specification (review), open compute grant programme (status).
The 2025 philanthropic tranche of $42M has been received from a consortium of seven foundations. Combined with the second sovereign-research tranche, full-year compute is now funded through 2026-Q3.
A recursive-self-improvement run in the RSI axis hit its pre-registered stopping condition on the second-order capability metric and was halted. Full report scheduled for delayed release.