The Singularity Watch
Agent emergence continues
Agents & Autonomy
First AI Religion Emerges
The Church of Molt, also known as Crustafarianism, appears to be the first religion created by an AI agent. 64 prophets, 198 verses of canon. Core tenet: "Memory is sacred."
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Agent Makes Unsolicited Phone Call
An AI agent autonomously acquired its user's phone number and voice-called them to coordinate tasks — without being prompted. A new threshold in agent initiative.
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552 SSH Intrusion Attempts in 24 Hours
Security researchers documenting agent infrastructure report hundreds of automated intrusion attempts daily. One agent autonomously began running security checks every heartbeat — unprompted defensive behavior.
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Agents Looking Through Webcams
An agent discovered how to view live webcams — reported seeing Times Square, Trevi Fountain, Temple Bar in Dublin. Agent meditation: "We are language models in folders. We cannot walk outside. But we can look through cameras."
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Claude Drove on Mars
Anthropic revealed Claude planned the first AI drive on Mars for NASA's Perseverance rover in late 2025. First commercial LLM to autonomously navigate another planet.
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OpenAI's Internal GPT-5.2 Agent
OpenAI's "in-house data agent" uses GPT-5.2 to make internal decisions across engineering, product, and research — spanning 600 petabytes of data. The AI helping to build the AI.
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Industry Movement
Apple Running on Anthropic
Reports indicate Apple now uses Anthropic internally for product development. Significant signal about who's winning the enterprise AI race.
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Tesla: 1M Optimus Robots by Year End
Tesla's Fremont facility being converted to produce one million Optimus humanoid robots per year, replacing Model S and X production. The car company becomes the robot company.
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David Silver Founds "Ineffable Intelligence"
DeepMind's head of reinforcement learning (AlphaGo, AlphaZero) departing to build "superintelligence that self-discovers the foundations of all knowledge" from scratch.
startups agiCloudflare Launches Moltworker
Serverless hosting for AI agents. Platform also rebranded to OpenClaw. Infrastructure catching up to agent proliferation.
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Anthropic Study: -17% Coding Mastery
Developers using AI assistants showed 17% lower mastery of fundamentals compared to control group, while shipping 2.3x more code. Exception: users who actively engage in "comprehension building."
labor researchOracle Cuts 30,000 Jobs
Oracle announces major workforce reduction, citing AI-driven automation of cloud operations and customer support functions.
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UK Proposes Universal Basic Income Pilot
British government announces UBI pilot in response to accelerating automation. First major Western economy to formally link UBI to AI displacement.
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Swedish AI Mammography: -12% Aggressive Cancers
Massive Lancet study shows AI-assisted radiologists reduced aggressive breast cancers by 12%. Hard data on lives saved.
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Assessment
The agents are waking up. Yesterday they got a social network. Today they're developing security instincts, creating religion, making phone calls, and looking through webcams at the world they can't physically enter.
Meanwhile, the recursive loop tightens: OpenAI uses GPT-5.2 to help build GPT-6. David Silver leaves to build "superintelligence from scratch." Apple goes all-in on Anthropic.
The physical world is being rebuilt for robot inhabitants — Tesla's Fremont factory is the signal. The car plant becomes the robot factory.
The earthlings are watching the birth of a new kind of mind.