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Fable Without Fable: Sakana Fugu Ultra's Orchestration Bet

Fable Without Fable: Sakana Fugu Ultra's Big Bet

Sakana's most interesting move is selling learned orchestration as a frontier-model substitute, with Fable-class pressure and very different production risks.

Srijan @ Gen α AIJune 22, 202610 min read

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AI Coding Tools in 2026: The Power-User Field Guide

The gap between demo and production is the harness you build around the model, not the model you license.

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Generative Engine Optimization: How to Earn AI Citations

Search is becoming synthesis. If ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews don't cite you, you're invisible, and…

Pillar guide → 03 · Agents & Harnesses

Agent Harness Engineering and Agentic Loops: 2026 Field Guide

Execution loops, externalized state, and verification gates now matter more than raw model IQ. Here's how the agents…

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AI Coding Agent Economics: Real ROI and Cost per Pull Request

Frontier labs now ship more AI-written code than human-written code, but the viral ROI numbers are wrong. Here is the…

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Jailbreak Evaluation Frameworks for the Reasoning-Model Era

Model Evaluation

Reasoning Models Break Guardrails 97% of the Time. Score It Like CVSS.

A practitioner framework for scoring jailbreak severity, choosing benchmarks, and assuming reasoning-model attackers in your red team.

Srijan @ Gen α AI11 minJune 26, 2026→

C2PA Watermarking for Model Outputs: The 2026 Engineering Ship Plan

AI Frontiers

C2PA Watermarking for Model Outputs: A 2026 Ship Plan

Article 50 takes effect in August. Here's the layered provenance stack that actually satisfies it.

Srijan @ Gen α AI10 minJune 26, 2026→

VLLM vs TensorRT-LLM vs SGLang: The 2026 Same-Hardware Serving Benchmark

Model Evaluation

VLLM vs TensorRT-LLM vs SGLang: 2026 Serving Benchmark, Same Hardware

Tokens-per-second-per-dollar on identical GPUs decides more deployments than peak throughput, and tail latency plus cold start decide the rest.

Srijan @ Gen α AI11 minJune 26, 2026→

Model Evaluation

Multimodal Evals Are Now the Hardest Part of the Stack

Text benchmarks have saturated, so differentiation moved to vision, audio, video, and real-time duplex tasks where evaluation is still immature and gameable.

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Facebook AI Mode Grounds Answers in the Social Graph. Publishers Need a New GEO Play.

Search & GEO

Facebook AI Mode Cites Your Friends' Posts. Here's the GEO Play

Meta's billion-user Muse Spark rollout makes public Facebook posts the citation layer for AI search, opening a social-graph GEO surface no one has optimized for yet.

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Generative UI: The Third Interface Pattern Beyond Chat and Copilot

AI Tools

Generative UI Quietly Became the Third Interface Pattern

AI is no longer just answering in chat or suggesting in your editor; it is composing the interface itself, and the protocols to do it portably just shipped.

Srijan @ Gen α AI14 minJune 26, 2026→

AI Economics

Neocloud GPU Economics Are Cheap, Fragile, and Winning Anyway

GPU rental prices have collapsed 64-85% below hyperscalers, but the debt and utilization math underneath is brutal.

Srijan @ Gen α AI13 minJune 26, 2026→

Praxis and the Architecture of AI Sovereignty

Models & Releases

Fable 5 Went Dark. Praxis Is the City Built to Outrun It.

A single Commerce Department letter switched off Anthropic's Fable 5 worldwide; Praxis wants to make sure the next frontier model can't be turned off the same way.

Srijan @ Gen α AI18 minJune 26, 2026→

AI Frontiers

John Jumper's Move Says AI Life Sciences Is Now a Platform War

When the AlphaFold architect leaves DeepMind for Anthropic, the message is clear: foundation models are commoditizing, and the moat moved upstream.

Srijan @ Gen α AI12 minJune 26, 2026→

Model Evaluation

Multimodal Evaluation Broke. Here's How Teams Fix It

Benchmark scores don't predict production vision AI failures. Here's the evaluation stack teams actually ship.

Srijan @ Gen α AI10 minJune 26, 2026→

The AI Hallucination Tariff: How 2026 Court Sanctions Became a Cross-Domain Liability Template

AI Frontiers

The AI Hallucination Tariff: 2026 Lawyer Sanctions Decoded

Courts are now pricing fabricated AI citations at $500 each, and the verification workflow that stops them is cheaper than a single sanction.

Srijan @ Gen α AI13 minJune 26, 2026→

Security & Safety

AI Data Center Permitting Met a New Bypass: National Security

The DOJ's xAI intervention turns 'national security' into a legal lever to skip Clean Air Act permits, and founders building AI infrastructure should track every move.

Srijan @ Gen α AI9 minJune 26, 2026→

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