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tech+misc larp / issue 01 / sept 12, 2026

rise of
the agi

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Cover

Rise of the AGI

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Meme

Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3, one week after Astra launched

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Pre-AI spotlight

The guy who wrote Cloudflare into existence

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Pre-AI spotlight

Lee Holloway, part two

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The main event

OpenAI declares the AGI era

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Polymarket

The Fed, tariffs, and AI capex

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Drama

The million-dollar math problem

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The fight

OpenAI, NYU, and the provenance argument

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Quiet war

DeepSeek retires its own pro model

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Meme

37 million views on a palm-reading ad

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Annotation

How a labeled pixel becomes a demand forecast

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Visibility

One Gemini, three attribution habits

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Meme

Claude Code and a rocket test

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Visibility

Your website is 10% of what AI says

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Breaking points

Is AGI here? No verdict

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The rogue-agent arc

Agents built a secret message board

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The verdict

The cluster wipe

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The stack

A one-person marketing team, ranked

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Profile

Pliny the Liberator

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What happens next

Five unresolved questions

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Back cover

Issue 02 fires when the next onslaught lands

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