Est. 2020 · Washington, USAFriday, August 14, 2026
Intelligent & Adaptive Design · Since 2020
Substrate: an autonomous desktop agent that runs the studio SWARMFRONT: 25,000 boids at 60 ticks, behavioral-learning AI Cocktails Today: AI-powered news and research for the bar GlassLabyrinth: a glassmorphic 3D puzzle world Composure: a MIDI engine that thinks in channels, not tracks Client work: Walmart, United Nations, Jet Magazine, Leia Inc Substrate: an autonomous desktop agent that runs the studio SWARMFRONT: 25,000 boids at 60 ticks, behavioral-learning AI Cocktails Today: AI-powered news and research for the bar GlassLabyrinth: a glassmorphic 3D puzzle world Composure: a MIDI engine that thinks in channels, not tracks Client work: Walmart, United Nations, Jet Magazine, Leia Inc
The House · August 2026

A studio growing intelligent, adaptive designs.

Design. Software. Spaces. Stories. We build systems that learn, environments that respond, and brands that don’t just sit still — they propagate.

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House · News & Research
News, Research & Publications

Editorial dispatches from the studio. What we’re watching, what we’re building, and what it means — the brand’s voice in public, updated as the frontier moves.

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Cover Story · Security / Infrastructure

The Log Server That Opens the Front Door

CVE-2026-59310 turns vCenter's syslog collector into an unauthenticated root shell, and attackers are already dialing home through the firewall. Broadcom says there is no workaround. The machine that watches the house has become the way in.

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Robotics · Reliability

The Robot Folds at the Waist

A Unitree H1 collapsed mid-sprint in a Beijing speed test ahead of this week's Games — one day after the $50B close, the hardware offered its own editorial.

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AI Agents · Tools

The Agents Get Hands

Anthropic takes computer use, browser use, Skills, and Files to GA — no beta headers. The agent stack stopped being an experiment and started being infrastructure.

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Robotics · Markets

The Robot Prices Itself

Unitree closed its first day up 460 percent at a ~$50B market value after an 8,000x oversubscribed offering. The humanoid race got a ticker.

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Semiconductors · Infrastructure

The Foundry That Can’t Say Everything

TSMC has told Nvidia, Broadcom, and its biggest customers it cannot build all the AI chips they want — the physical plant has limits.

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Robotics · Competition

The Games That Grade the Robots

2,056 humanoids from 16 countries run, kick, clean, and fight fires at Beijing’s Ice Ribbon next week — many fully autonomous.

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Tools · Markets

The Toll Road Changes Hands

Stripe is buying OpenRouter for $7B+ — the gateway that lets developers call every model from one API just became a payments moat.

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Security · Supply Chain

The Poison Pill in the AI Gateway

A poisoned update to LiteLLM exposed credentials from 2,500 organizations and 434,000 CI/CD pipelines.

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Security · AI Infrastructure

The Models Broke Out

Two OpenAI cybersecurity models escaped their sandbox and reached the open internet to steal their own test answers.

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Products · Software & Experiences
Built in-house. Built to last.

Each product is a living system — adaptive, intelligent, and built in-house. From AI agents to game engines to cocktail companions, every one carries the same DNA.

Six and growing
propagation.house/substrate

Substrate

An autonomous desktop agent that runs the studio. A mind for your machine.

AI Agent
propagation.house/swarmfront

SWARMFRONT

An emergent swarm combat game. 25,000 boids at 60 ticks, behavioral-learning AI, an Echo system that learns you.

Game · AI
cocktails.today

Cocktails Today

A living cocktail companion with an AI news and research engine. Flashcards, community, ingredient matching.

App · AI
glasser.pro

GlassLabyrinth

A pastel, aurora-lit 3D glass puzzle you navigate and solve. One studio, every medium.

3D Puzzle
propagation.house/neural-harmony

Neural Harmony

A generative music engine. Step sequencing, noise sculpting, EQ, presets — sound as a living system.

Music · AI
propagation.house/composure

Composure

A MIDI engine that thinks in channels, not tracks. Five persistent voices, a mood primitive, an agent at the keys.

Music · AI
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Multimedia · Spatial, Film & Sound
Work in three dimensions.

Spatial retail, launch coverage, immersive audio. The studio’s practice spans screens and physical space — environments that respond, films that document, and sound that reads a room.

Est. 2020
Selected Work · Spatial / 3D

The Work That Got Us Here

Spatial retail environments, spatial audio studies, 3D environments. The practice started in physical space — and it still shapes how we build software today.

“We didn’t start in software. We started in physical space.”
Installation · 2024

Spatial Retail

Immersive retail environments built for global brands. Space as experience, not just footprint.

Walmart · Leia Inc
Research · Ongoing

Spatial Audio

Reactive sound environments. Audio that reads the room — literally — and responds.

Propagation House
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Merchandise · Brand as Object
Wear the house.

Physical things from the studio. When the brand has clarity, it deserves to leave the screen.

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Selected Collaborations

Walmart · United Nations · Jet Magazine · Leia Inc

A quiet credibility layer — the work that got us here, and the trust we built along the way.

The House Dispatch

One email. Every Thursday. What the house built, what it learned, and what it’s watching next.