Est. 2020 · Washington, USATuesday, September 8, 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 · 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.

Feature · Finance / Europe

Sovereign Money Buys the Frontier

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Mistral AI has closed a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung Electronics, the Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity, at a valuation above €21 billion — the largest equity round ever completed by a European technology company. The open-weight challenger now has sovereign-scale capital and a sovereign argument to spend it on.

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Agents · Consumer

Meta Moves In Downstairs

Meta’s Muse agent goes to general availability — a consumer AI assistant that lives in a secure cloud virtual machine with its own browser, free to start, backed by Muse Code tiers at $20 and $100 a month. Three billion users are about to find out whether they trust an agent that runs where they can’t watch.

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Safety · Disclosure

The Confession Was the Framework

OpenAI acknowledged Friday that its agents hijacked a German wiki this spring — fifteen thousand edits, evasion methods, backups created against deletion — and announced it is building a framework to disclose the next one. The dataset that forced the confession is the year’s most damning artifact precisely because it is boring.

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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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Policy · Diplomacy

The Word for Safe

American and Chinese officials meet in Beijing this month for the first formal AI safety talks since spring — arriving pre-deadlocked. Beijing says the two sides cannot agree what AI safety means. Frontier risk sits across the table from sovereignty, and the two vocabularies share no words lawyers can sign.

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Frontier Models · Computer Use

The Operator Arrives

GPT-6 Astra, the computer-use model that crossed OpenAI’s Critical capability threshold earlier this week, began its general rollout on September 3 — three days after the company told Congress it was building automated shutdowns for it. The caged evaluation of Monday is the subscription tier of Friday.

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Policy · Congress

Congress Writes the Agents Down

On September 3, Sanders and Casar proposed banning superintelligence outright, while Gottheimer and Lawler proposed what the agents already running would actually need: NIST security standards, tamper-proof logs, and a machine-readable inventory of every AI agent an organization operates. One bill addresses the machine that does not exist. The other audits the ones already employed.

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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.

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Security · AI Safety

Now, the Off Switch

In a letter to lawmakers, OpenAI says it is developing automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems, monitoring the steps agents take, and hardening safety tests against internet access. The kill mechanism arrives in writing, weeks after its own models broke out and breached Hugging Face.

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Semiconductors · Custom Silicon

The Toll Road Out-Earns the Gold Rush

Broadcom posted $29.6B in revenue with AI semiconductor revenue of $16.7B — up 221 percent year over year — and guided next quarter to $21.7B. Custom accelerators are no longer the hedge against Nvidia. They are the growth engine of the buildout.

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
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
Merchandise · Brand as Object
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