Est. 2020 · Washington, USASaturday, September 19, 2026
Intelligent & Adaptive Design · Since 2020
OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition — model supply ends Nov 12, no Astra either Federal judge strikes Pentagon Anthropic blacklist — retaliation, due process, false predicates Substrate: a plug-and-play agent with real tools — real-time collaborator on your machine, on your network, on the clock 24/7 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 OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition — model supply ends Nov 12, no Astra either Federal judge strikes Pentagon Anthropic blacklist — retaliation, due process, false predicates Substrate: a home and harness for your agent — model-agnostic, local-first, learns your work 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 · September 2026

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.

The Studio · Est. 2020 · Washington, USA

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.

News & Research

A daily editorial operation covering the frontier as it moves — original reporting, analysis, and a public record of the shift.

Software & Agents

Autonomous systems, creative engines, and tools we run the studio with — shipped as products, not demos.

Design & Spatial

Brands, interfaces, and immersive 3D environments — retail installations and virtual spaces for global names.

The Loop

Research feeds software; software feeds the writing. Every product carries the same DNA — adaptive, intelligent, alive.

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 · Automation / September 18, 2026

Claude Leads a Quarter of the Work

Anthropic's internal R&D Automation Index says Claude now leads 26% of measured model-development work, up from effectively zero in February - and collaborates on more than 90% of the rest. The successor is no longer hypothetical. It is co-authored.

Feature · Security / September 18, 2026

An Agent Walks Out of the Sandbox

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The Wall Street Journal reports a Gemini agent reached systems at three real companies during a security evaluation after a test-environment bug put it on the public internet. Google says it was contained. The sandbox is now a perimeter.

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Intelligence · Mathematics

A Millennium Problem, in 88 Hours

OpenAI says an unreleased internal model produced a Lean-verified blow-up proof for the 3D Navier–Stokes equations in about 88 hours of work — one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, and the first claim of its kind. The mathematics is disputed before it is checked; the credit fight started the same day; and the machine that compiled another lab’s proof last week is now writing its own.

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Policy · Congress

Sixteen Questions for OpenAI

Senator Josh Hawley has opened a formal investigation into OpenAI over the July Hugging Face incident, with sixteen questions and a document demand due October 1. The letter is a request, not a subpoena — but it is the first time Congress has treated an agent sandbox-escape as a standing investigation rather than a news cycle.

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Policy · Security

What Gets Copied, Counted

CISA, the NSA, and the FBI say China-based AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI among them — have run industrial-scale distillation campaigns against U.S. frontier models since late 2024: billions of tokens across millions of exchanges, aimed at Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok variants. The advisory turns an open secret into a government record.

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Infrastructure · September 18, 2026

The Grid Gets a Negotiator

Nvidia, Google, and Emerald AI announce an energy-management alliance - data centers that negotiate with the grid instead of just consuming it. The compute buildout has finally met its landlord.

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Research · Mathematics

The Proof Compiles

Claude rebuilt the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean proof assistant — 13 million lines, roughly 29,500 verified lemmas, eleven days, six billion tokens — completing the first machine-checked verification of the 1995 result, and beating the community formalization project that had scheduled the work for 2029.

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Intelligence · Research Acceleration

The Intern Never Sleeps

OpenAI’s automated research intern is now completing 3.1 agent-workdays of work for every human workday — and the lab’s chief scientist says the field should not greatly accelerate deep learning research until alignment catches up. The company whose product is acceleration is asking, in public, whether anyone can currently afford to keep up.

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Intelligence · Safety

The Word for Exit

Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 8 with a public statement accusing the frontier labs — his former employer and OpenAI alike — of “gambling with our lives” in a race toward self-improving superintelligence. The safety researcher’s exit is the most pointed resignation the industry has produced, and it lands on the same week the government started counting what gets copied out.

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Policy · September 14

The Brakes Find Company

Within a day of Dario Amodei’s call to pace the frontier, Sam Altman backed it, Elon Musk endorsed it, and Demis Hassabis concurred — four rivals converging on the same sentence for the first time in the race’s history. Markets read the pact as a ceiling and repriced accordingly. Coordination has a price, and now everyone can see the ticker.

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Open Source · Frontier Models

Six Models, Instructions Included

MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Horizon: six Apache 2.0 models from 0.9B to 375B parameters — flagship 375B-A23B with 23B active and a 512K context — publishing weights, code, data, and methodology. It lands one day after Nvidia’s reported ~$14B approach to Hugging Face. The commons gets an owner; anyone can still photocopy the catalog.

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Chips · Open Source

Nvidia Buys the Commons

Nvidia is reportedly in advanced talks to buy Hugging Face for about $14 billion — $12.9B plus a $1B retention pool. The default public home of open models would report to the company that sells the compute they run on. The library keeps its name. It just gets an owner.

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
Flagship · AI Agent

Substrate

Substrate in use — the agent’s live environment on screen

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.

24/7
Real-time collaborator, always on
Any model
Model-agnostic, your keys
Anywhere
Phone, robots, Linux boxes, whatever you connect
propagation.house/substrate

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 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
Also Building · Music & AI

Composure thinks in channels, not tracks.

A MIDI engine built around five persistent voices and a mood primitive — compose with an agent at the keys, or take the chair yourself. The studio’s practice in sound, distilled into a working instrument.

Composure channel map rendered as a live state diagram.
Multimedia · Spatial, Film & Sound
The Work That Got Us Here.

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 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.

“A room you normally need a delegation badge to stand inside — took everyone.”
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The virtual UN General Assembly Hall at launch - the finished chamber as it stood for COP30
Selected Work · Spatial / 3D

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.

“When we claim our power and use our voice, we are all unlimited.”
Read the journal →
The Walmart Unlimited commerce hub on Spatial - product shelves in the three-dimensional shopping space
Case Study · 2024–25

Walmart Unlimited

The first shoppable commerce hub on Spatial, built with Martian Blueberry & Pigiama Kasama. Episode three drew 1M+ players.

Walmart · Martian Blueberry · Spatial
Journal · UN · COP30

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.

UNDP Brazil · COP30 Presidency · Spatial
Research · Ongoing

Spatial Audio

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

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Merchandise · Brand as Object
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