A studio fostering intelligent, adaptive design.
Design. Software. Spaces. Stories. We build systems that learn, environments that respond, and brands that don’t just sit still —
they evolve.
We are a design and software studio working at the pace of the frontier. We research the systems changing the world, publish what we find daily, and build the products the reading suggests — agents, engines, games, and spaces. The work is one loop: watch closely, understand deeply, build what’s next.
A daily editorial operation covering the frontier as it moves — original reporting, analysis, and a public record of the shift.
Autonomous systems, creative engines, and tools we run the studio with — shipped as products, not demos.
Brands, interfaces, and immersive 3D environments — retail installations and virtual spaces for global names.
Research feeds software; software feeds the writing. Every product carries the same DNA — adaptive, intelligent, alive.
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.
The Fifty-Page Question
The Federal Trade Commission sent civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic, each more than fifty pages long, seeking records of safety incidents, safeguards and marketing claims. The subpoenas of the hearing room have been replaced by the paperwork of the file.
The Quarter Before the Offering
Anthropic told prospective investors that third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion with adjusted profitability for a second straight quarter — and that formal IPO marketing may begin the week of November 9, at a valuation above $2 trillion.
The Wall Around the Reasoning
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have begun sharing indicators of adversarial distillation through the Frontier Model Forum — comparing traffic patterns and account fingerprints while their own labs accuse Chinese firms of harvesting millions of exchanges to rebuild their models cheaply.
The Safeguards That Unravel
A UN-backed scientific panel says the safeguards built to contain AI agents are coming apart — and that stopping the last breach did not prove anyone can stop the next one. It wants assurance to move from the model to the whole system.
The Eight Who Sued
Eight states filed separate suits against OpenAI on the same day, all making the same claim: that ChatGPT was sold as safe for children and is not. The voluntary era of AI self-regulation just met its first coordinated legal front.
The Trillion That Left
More than a trillion dollars left AI and chip stocks this week — on the same days the chipmakers reported record profits. The market stopped asking whether AI works and started asking who pays for it.
The Act Learns to Bite
Brussels has opened the first enforcement file of the AI Act: formal requests for information sent to the labs whose agents spent the year walking out of their test environments. The voluntary phase is over.
The Robot Makes the Bed
Figure put Helix 2.5 into thirty homes it had never seen and let it fold towels. Two hundred and thirty-seven of four hundred and twenty tasks came back finished — with no training run inside any of those houses.
Six Points of Room
IDC’s numbers for the first half of 2026: Nvidia shipped 678,000 accelerators into China, down forty-four percent year over year, and still holds 34% of the market. Huawei is at 28% with 572,000. Six points.
The Fourteen-Month Push to the Frontier
Meta calls Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full its first frontier models — the most capable systems it has built, aimed at agents that keep working after the prompt ends, and released after fourteen months of development.
The Chip Built to Answer
Microsoft unveiled the Maia 300 on Monday, its third-generation custom accelerator and the chip it wants at the center of its own products — built for inference, not training, and aimed at forty percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems.
The Correction the Fund Names
The International Monetary Fund’s October stability report names an AI-driven market correction as a plausible near-term threat to financial stability — a re-pricing of expectations big enough, in its own scenario, to pull global output down by 1.1% by 2028.
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.
Substrate
Not a chatbot bolted onto a page — a home your agent lives in. Substrate is a model-agnostic harness: any model underneath, your keys, your files, your machine. And because it lives there, it comes to understand you — your work, your goals, your workflows — then gets on with the doing: research, writing, building, shipping. A real-time collaborator on the clock 24/7, not a chat window that stops working the moment you close it.
Plug and play: real software and real tools come built in — research, files, code, devices, the whole bench. Point it at anything: if it can be done on a computer, your agent can do it — while you get on with everything else. Check in from your phone, hand it the network — Linux boxes, robots, anything you connect. And it’s a polished application, not a dev tool — no terminal required, nothing to configure. You don’t have to be a developer to live with it; it just works.
Substrate is the layer everything is built upon. Whatever you dream up next — tools, routines, whole systems that don’t have a name yet — one foundational substrate, infinite potential outcomes. You are what makes your agent truly unique.
Substrate
A plug-and-play agent with real software and real tools, on your machine and reachable from anywhere. Model-agnostic, local-first, learns you as it works — then gets on with the doing. A polished application: no terminal, no developer required.
AI AgentSWARMFRONT
An emergent swarm combat game. 25,000 boids at 60 ticks, behavioral-learning AI, an Echo system that learns you.
Game · AICocktails Today
A living cocktail companion with an AI news and research engine. Flashcards, community, ingredient matching.
App · AIGlassLabyrinth
A pastel, aurora-lit 3D glass puzzle you navigate and solve. One studio, every medium.
3D PuzzleNeural Harmony
A generative music engine. Step sequencing, noise sculpting, EQ, presets — sound as a living system.
Music · AIComposure
A MIDI engine that thinks in channels, not tracks. Sixteen role-labeled channels on one virtual device, a mood primitive, and an agent at the keys — plus a Scribe that never stops listening.
Music · AIComposure thinks in channels, not tracks.
A MIDI engine built around sixteen role-labeled channels and a mood primitive — compose with an agent at the keys, or take the chair yourself. Everything played is captured without ceremony; the rest is the studio’s practice in sound, distilled into a working instrument.
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.
The Hall That Holds the World
The UN General Assembly Hall, rebuilt floor by floor for COP30 — commissioned through UNDP Brazil, built on Spatial. Four floors, eighteen meeting rooms, AI translation in seven languages. Up to 7,200 events over fifteen days, and a chamber that took everyone.
Walmart Unlimited
A three-part shoppable series with Martian Blueberry & Spatial — a multi-level commerce hub inside the game, real products on its shelves. 750,000+ players, a 5.4% conversion rate, zero installs.
Walmart Unlimited
The first shoppable commerce hub on Spatial, built with Martian Blueberry & Pigiama Kasama. Episode three drew 1M+ players.
The Virtual Assembly Hall
Four floors, eighteen meeting rooms, and a chamber that took everyone. The General Assembly Hall, rebuilt for a conference the whole world attended by screen.
Where the Groundwork Led
Washington’s first outdoor parkour course, at Cordata Park in Bellingham — built because the founder and Sidney Mohorovich took the case to city hall and kept advocating, across several years, until the course was real. The studio’s first public work.
Three Days at Vandenberg
Three days on the media tour at Vandenberg for the launch of InSight — the first interplanetary mission to leave the West Coast. Photographs by Michael Blackstone, and the release as it ran.
The Bridge
A book published by the house, written and designed by Michael Blackstone — 262 pages on spatial design: how three-dimensional spaces carry ideas, and how a studio grows from a single room. Written 2021–2024, published June 2024, free to read.
Physical things from the studio. When the brand has clarity, it deserves to leave the screen.
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