Duke's Tech Knowledge Database Living Handbook · v13 · Compiled 15 September 2026

Change Log

Every merge, in order. This is what makes the Handbook auditable rather than a black box — each row names the source it came from and where it landed.

DateSource IDSection(s)What was added
15 Jul 2026DK-2AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Business; Space, Robotics & HardwareInitial merge — Grok 4.5/GPT-5.6/Muse Spark/Fable competitive landscape; Apple v. OpenAI lawsuit; SpaceX/China rocket milestones; 1X robotic hand; state AI regulation.
15 Jul 2026DK-3AI Model Landscape; AI-Powered Content CreationInitial merge — GPT-5.6 capability/cost claims; unified ChatGPT app; Sites instant deployment; GPT Live; competitor roundup.
15 Jul 2026DK-4AI-Powered Content CreationInitial merge — keyframe transition technique; Gemini Omni background edits; Remotion vs. diffusion; creator's 95/5 human/AI ratio.
15 Jul 2026DK-5AI Model Landscape; AI-Powered Content Creation; Big Tech, Legal & BusinessInitial merge — Fable 5 withdrawal/return; GPT-5.6 variants; BeautyBench; OpenAI government ownership proposal.
15 Jul 2026DK-6AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Business; Space, Robotics & Hardware; AI Ethics (new)v2 merge — rumor-flagged Fable 5/Mythos 5 export-control account; Capybara/Numbat codename speculation; local AI hardware.
15 Jul 2026DK-7AI-Powered Content Creation; AI Ethics (new)v2 merge — HeyGen/ElevenLabs/Higgsfield pipeline; consent step; disclosure debate.
15 Jul 2026DK-8AI Model Landscape; AI-Powered Content Creationv2 merge — Seedream 5.0 Pro vs. GPT Image 2; localized editing; live web-integrated generation.
15 Jul 2026DK-9AI Ethics (new)v2 merge — multi-signal AI-video detection checklist; named misuse categories.
15 Jul 2026DK-10AI Agentic Platforms (new)v3 merge — ChatGPT Work autonomous execution, desktop file access, Sites, Scheduled Tasks.
15 Jul 2026DK-11AI Agentic Platforms (new)v3 merge — Claude Skills as reusable workflows; third-party skill security risks.
15 Jul 2026DK-12AI-Powered Content Creationv3 merge — NotebookLM Short Video Overviews; Nano Banana 2 Light.
15 Jul 2026DK-13AI Agentic Platforms (new)v3 merge — four-layer Claude ecosystem description.
15 Jul 2026DK-14AI Agentic Platforms (new)v3 merge — beginner Claude Code walkthrough.
15 Jul 2026DK-15AI Agentic Platforms (new); General Operating Principlesv3 merge — ICC framework, context interview, hallucination safeguards.
15 Jul 2026DK-16AI Agentic Platformsv4 merge — Claude Code Artifacts live hosted apps.
15 Jul 2026DK-17AI-Powered Content Creation; AI Agentic Platformsv4 merge — Structure/Context/Templates/Skills framework.
15 Jul 2026DK-18AI Model Landscape; AI Agentic Platformsv4 merge — beginner three-tier model-selection framework.
15 Jul 2026DK-19AI Ethicsv4 merge — self-learning AI-driven malware prototype research.
15 Jul 2026DK-20Big Tech, Legal & Businessv4 merge — rumored 2026 hardware-maker product roadmap.
15 Jul 2026DK-21AI Agentic Platformsv4 merge — AI-as-teammate framing; realization-gap statistics.
15 Jul 2026DK-22Space, Robotics & Hardwarev4 merge — human-centered robotics/interaction design.
15 Jul 2026DK-23AI Agentic Platformsv4 merge — counter-perspective on agent reliability.
15 Jul 2026DK-24General Operating Principlesv4 merge — confidence-tiering discipline reinforcement.
15 Jul 2026DK-25Space, Robotics & Hardwarev5 merge — UBTech commercial companion-humanoid product launch.
15 Jul 2026DK-26Space, Robotics & Hardwarev5 merge — Physical AI/robot data gap concept.
15 Jul 2026DK-27AI-Powered Content Creationv5 merge — Midjourney feature roundup.
15 Jul 2026DK-28AI-Powered Content Creationv5 merge — full Midjourney parameter reference.
15 Jul 2026DK-29General Tech Tools & Utilities (new)v5 merge — general consumer-app roundup.
15 Jul 2026DK-30General Tech Tools & Utilities (new)v5 merge — general web-tools roundup.
19 Jul 2026DK-31AI Agentic Platformsv6 merge — Outcome + Context framework.
19 Jul 2026DK-32AI Agentic Platformsv6 merge — claude.md/memory.md/archive.md architecture.
19 Jul 2026DK-33AI-Powered Content Creationv6 merge — NotebookLM Studio suite expansion.
19 Jul 2026DK-34Space, Robotics & Hardwarev6 merge — Tesla Optimus Gen 3 fleet-learning strategy.
19 Jul 2026DK-35Space, Robotics & Hardwarev6 merge — Unitree's full humanoid lineup and pricing.
19 Jul 2026DK-36Space, Robotics & Hardware; AI Ethicsv6 merge — Figure AI's 24+ hour warehouse livestream.
19 Jul 2026DK-37General Tech Tools & Utilitiesv6 merge — general IoT primer.
19 Jul 2026DK-38AI Model Landscapev6 merge — WWDC 2026 Siri AI reveal.
19 Jul 2026DK-39AI Model Landscapev6 merge — independent Siri AI corroboration.
23 Jul 2026DK-40AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Agentic Platformsv7 merge — Kimi K3 panel discussion; multipolar AI competition.
23 Jul 2026DK-41AI Model Landscapev7 merge — third independent Siri AI corroboration.
23 Jul 2026DK-42AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Businessv7 merge — two AI races framework.
23 Jul 2026DK-43AI Model Landscapev7 merge — second independent Kimi K3 source.
23 Jul 2026DK-44AI Model Landscapev7 merge — GPT-5.6 tiering reinforced with new pricing.
23 Jul 2026DK-45AI Model Landscape; AI-Powered Content Creation; AI Agentic Platformsv7 merge — weekly AI news roundup, open-source AI wave.
23 Jul 2026DK-46AI-Powered Content Creationv7 merge — voice/speech AI comparison.
23 Jul 2026DK-47AI Agentic Platformsv7 merge — Claude Code Skills/MCP personal-productivity use case.
23 Jul 2026DK-48Space, Robotics & Hardwarev8 merge — unconfirmed Cybercab Starlink V5 integration.
23 Jul 2026DK-49Space, Robotics & Hardwarev8 merge — Tesla Semi real-world pilot economics.
23 Jul 2026DK-50Space, Robotics & Hardwarev8 merge — proposed Terafab semiconductor mega-facility.
23 Jul 2026DK-51Space, Robotics & Hardwarev8 merge — second independent Optimus Gen 3 source.
23 Jul 2026DK-52Space, Robotics & Hardwarev8 merge — SpaceX/Starlink revenue split and scale.
23 Jul 2026DK-53Space, Robotics & Hardwarev8 merge — Tesla AI5 chip and power-efficiency target.
23 Jul 2026DK-54General Tech Tools & Utilitiesv8 merge — thorium molten-salt nuclear reactor deep-dive.
17 Aug 2026DK-55AI-Powered Content Creationv10 merge — NotebookLM renamed "Gemini Notebook"; three-prompt research-auditing technique; source auto-labeling.
17 Aug 2026DK-56AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Businessv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #1 (6 May 2026): healthcare AI diagnostics; Anthropic $1.5B Wall Street venture.
17 Aug 2026DK-57AI Model Landscapev10 merge — Newsletter Digest #2 (8 May 2026): GPT-5.5 Instant memory/sources feature; chip stock rally.
17 Aug 2026DK-58Big Tech, Legal & Businessv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #3 (15 May 2026): local AI home data centres; Claude for Small Business.
17 Aug 2026DK-59Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Agentic Platformsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #4 (20 May 2026): Claude Code pricing backlash; Gemini 3.5 launch.
17 Aug 2026DK-60AI Agentic Platformsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #5 (22 May 2026): Codex on mobile remote-control pattern; Google I/O AI-for-everyone theme.
17 Aug 2026DK-61AI Ethicsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #6 (27 May 2026): Pope Leo's AI weapons encyclical; Huawei chip claims.
17 Aug 2026DK-62AI Ethics; AI Agentic Platformsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #7 (29 May 2026): ChatGPT personal finance/ads trust concern; YouTube automatic AI labeling.
17 Aug 2026DK-63Big Tech, Legal & Businessv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #8 (3 Jun 2026): Anthropic IPO filing; Florida sues OpenAI.
17 Aug 2026DK-64Big Tech, Legal & Businessv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #9 (5 Jun 2026): Meta enterprise Business Agent; Suno $400M raise.
17 Aug 2026DK-65AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Businessv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #10 (10 Jun 2026): local-model argument; OpenAI IPO filing; conference season agents theme.
17 Aug 2026DK-66Big Tech, Legal & Business; Space, Robotics & Hardwarev10 merge — Newsletter Digest #11 (12 Jun 2026): SpaceX $1.75T IPO and orbital compute thesis; Fable 5/Mythos 5 throttled-release tension.
17 Aug 2026DK-67AI-Powered Content Creation; Big Tech, Legal & Businessv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #12 (19 Jun 2026): Midjourney Medical ultrasound scanner pivot; Anthropic's first climate deal.
17 Aug 2026DK-68Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Agentic Platformsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #13 (24 Jun 2026): Samsung ChatGPT/Codex global deployment; Codex Record & Replay.
17 Aug 2026DK-69Big Tech, Legal & Business; Hardware & Gadgetsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #14 (26 Jun 2026): OpenAI Jalapeño chip; cross-vendor AI skills roundup.
17 Aug 2026DK-70AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Business; Space, Robotics & Hardwarev10 merge — Newsletter Digest #15 (1 Jul 2026): domain-specific LQM AI wave; Commerce Dept lifts Anthropic restrictions; Proception robot hand.
17 Aug 2026DK-71Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Ethicsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #16 (8 Jul 2026): OpenAI 5% government ownership stake proposal detailed.
17 Aug 2026DK-72AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Businessv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #17 (10 Jul 2026): GPT-5.6 cleared for launch; Meta Muse Image consent controversy.
17 Aug 2026DK-73AI Ethicsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #18 (15 Jul 2026): Apple sues OpenAI trade-secrets detail; Claude Reflect anti-engagement feature.
17 Aug 2026DK-74AI Model Landscape; AI Ethicsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #19 (17 Jul 2026): Thinking Machines' Inkling model; Suno scraping hack revelation.
17 Aug 2026DK-75Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Agentic Platformsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #20 (22 Jul 2026): 1Password for Claude; Kimi K3 demand/capacity strain.
17 Aug 2026DK-76Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Ethicsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #21 (24 Jul 2026): OpenAI/Hugging Face live security incident; AMD-Anthropic server deal.
17 Aug 2026DK-77Big Tech, Legal & Businessv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #22 (29 Jul 2026): Reddit-Google AI training data negotiation; publisher traffic decline figures.
17 Aug 2026DK-78AI Model Landscape; Space, Robotics & Hardware; AI Ethics; Big Tech, Legal & Businessv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #23 (31 Jul 2026): Gemini Robotics 2; US foreign-robot import ban; Claude Opus 5 vending-machine benchmark; Anthropic real-hack incidents.
17 Aug 2026DK-79Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Ethics; Space, Robotics & Hardwarev10 merge — Newsletter Digest #24 (5 Aug 2026): White House frontier-model testing framework; Qwen3.8-Max release; LinkedIn AI slop button; Zoox Las Vegas robotaxi.
17 Aug 2026DK-80Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Model Landscape; AI-Powered Content Creationv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #25 (7 Aug 2026): Netflix/InterPositive Hollywood AI deal; Anthropic in-house chip team.
17 Aug 2026DK-81AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Agentic Platformsv10 merge — Newsletter Digest #26 (12 Aug 2026, final backfill issue): Zuckerberg's open-weight essay; Claude Code auto mode default-on.
9 Sep 2026DK-82AI Agentic Platforms; AI Ethics, Safety & Media Literacyv11 merge — Claude Skills leaderboard; discovery as the highest-installed capability (Find Skills 2.9m, ~3.5x the next); six of the top twelve by one independent author; most-installed skills are process discipline not capability; unattended Amazon purchase demo recorded as a permission-boundary case; rank positions 2-4 flagged unreliable by the source itself
9 Sep 2026DK-83AI Ethics, Safety & Media Literacy; AI Model Landscapev11 merge — Musk's five-year and ten-year predictions as guesses; 10-20% catastrophe estimate unchanged while posture moves from alarm to acceptance; competitor pre-release review proposal (1-2 weeks early access); unprompted assessment of Anthropic as current leader
9 Sep 2026DK-84Big Tech, Legal & Businessv11 merge — ATS rebuilt in a week against an estimated £500k/18 months; small-SaaS break-even falling from ~10,000 customers to 500-1,000; ecosystem rather than product as the defensible asset; legal billable-hour disruption first-hand; two unsourced figures explicitly excluded
9 Sep 2026DK-85AI Model Landscape; AI Ethics, Safety & Media Literacy; General Operating Principlesv11 merge — world models as a credentialled dissent from LLM scaling; the rendering/simulation/planning split; World Labs $1bn and ~50 people; 'root regulation in science, not science fiction'; field self-described as pre-breakthrough
9 Sep 2026DK-86Big Tech, Legal & Business; General Operating Principlesv11 merge — the bear case recorded as a named position; circular-revenue claim (~70% of AI revenue from two unprofitable companies); token unit economics; no post-bubble second use for AI GPUs; the host's counter-case recorded alongside; every figure marked unverified
9 Sep 2026DK-87AI Ethics, Safety & Media Literacyv11 merge — Gates's three risks; reputation explicitly staked on the labour transition differing from all prior technology; review criteria described as 'completely missing'; Amodei's 50%/10-20% figures cited without endorsement; data-centre protest dismissed as ineffective
9 Sep 2026DK-88Space, Robotics & Emerging Hardwarev11 merge — Figure AI April 2026; bottleneck stated as intelligence rather than manufacturing; reliability progression across Figure 1/2/3; vertical integration as the stated differentiator; OpenAI split told bluntly. Pairs with DK-90
9 Sep 2026DK-89Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Ethics, Safety & Media Literacy; General Operating Principlesv11 merge — energy arms race framing; El Capitan's eight years against Colossus's 122 days. TWO CENTRAL FIGURES EXCLUDED ENTIRELY: the source states on air that its Colossus power draw and US grid headroom numbers were obtained by asking Grok. Prompted the v11 strengthening of the numeric-claims principle
9 Sep 2026DK-90Space, Robotics & Emerging Hardwarev11 merge — Figure AI June 2025 baseline; 12,000 robots per line per year and a 100,000-in-four-years target; BMW body-shop deployment; winner-take-all collective-learning thesis. Pairs with DK-88 to show the ceiling argument holding while the floor is restated
11 Sep 2026DK-91AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Business; Space, Robotics & Hardwarev12 merge — Fable 5.1 at 60.9% on Humanity's Last Exam; capability-gated release split between Fable and Mythos; the thirty-day frontier lead and the shift from capability to distribution; Cybercab at a stated $30,000; data starvation in architecture and drug design.
11 Sep 2026DK-92AI Ethics, Safety & Media Literacyv12 merge — Evan Hubinger's >10% personal extinction estimate while serving at Anthropic, and Anthropic's non-denial; the present-models-are-safe distinction most coverage lost; the 2-5% figure obtained by asking Claude, excluded as evidence.
11 Sep 2026DK-93AI Ethics, Safety & Media Literacy; AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Businessv12 merge — the German wiki incident and OpenAI's two months of silence; the containment correction and the 6GB distilled-model scenario; Jakub Pachocki's "An alien mind" and the panel's refusal to engage it; Navier-Stokes figures and the attribution dispute; Jensen Huang's AGI declaration; Nvidia at $99bn.
11 Sep 2026DK-94Space, Robotics & Emerging Hardwarev12 merge — iPhone Duo as Apple's first foldable, Touch ID in place of Face ID at $1,999, adjustable aperture as the first real camera change in four years, and Pro models launched with no base iPhone for the first time. All figures Apple's own.
11 Sep 2026DK-95AI-Powered Content Creation & Production Toolsv12 merge — GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst; the reasoning-versus-diffusion distinction that explains instruction-following against aesthetics; the model researching before it draws, and the shift from prompt-craft to reference-giving.
11 Sep 2026DK-96AI Ethics, Safety & Media Literacyv12 merge — Connor Leahy's two proposed laws and the precursor list; the uranium-ore analogy separating tools from agents; the Szilard comparison; open-weights recall as infeasible. Answers the "no mechanism exists" claim recorded from DK-93.
11 Sep 2026DK-97AI Ethics, Safety & Media Literacyv12 merge — Roman Yampolskiy's position, recorded with the instability of his own headline figure (99.9999% / 99% / 99.999% in one video); the red-team-and-ship charge; the falling cost curve as the argument for buying time; the squirrel analogy; second independent mention of the Mythos and Fable ban.
11 Sep 2026DK-98AI Agentic Platforms & Workplace Automation; AI Ethics, Safety & Media Literacyv12 merge — OpenClaw 2.0's move to multiplayer agents and "the session itself became the handoff document"; the upgrade breakage as a corrective on tool maturity; Obliteration.AI stripping refusal directions from model weights, and the defender's-guardrail problem it claims to answer.
11 Sep 2026DK-99AI Model Landscape; AI Agentic Platforms & Workplace Automation; General Operating Principlesv12 merge — Astra's published benchmarks and the Automation Bench computer-use jump; Artificial Analysis revising its index within days; effort settings peaking below maximum; the efficiency-versus-opportunity model distinction; Casado's "coding has saturated" dissent. Principal source for the new seventh operating principle.
11 Sep 2026DK-100Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Agentic Platforms & Workplace Automationv12 merge — the frontier-to-typical firm gap widening from 2.6x to 8.3x; skills and plugins as the separating factor; the agentic crossover in enterprise output tokens; the legal-work breakdown; Altman conceding he was wrong on timelines and on his own revealed preference.
15 Sep 2026DK-101AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI-Powered Content Creation; General Tech Tools; General Operating Principlesv13 merge — four frontier flagships in one week; the hands-on/leaderboard divergence from a consistent tester; Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition confirmed; Atlas and real-time video generation; ChatGPT conversations not privileged, and New York's K-8 schooling ban.
15 Sep 2026DK-102AI Model Landscapev13 merge — Hassabis dates AGI at around 2030 plus or minus a year, narrowed from a 5-to-10-year band on accumulated expected progress; read as a dated mid-2026 position predating the September model wave.
15 Sep 2026DK-103Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI-Powered Content Creationv13 merge — the Navier-Stokes claim and dispute from one direction; video analysis priced at 20 cents per second; edit stability as the real Images 2.5 advance; the poker-hand test no model passed.
15 Sep 2026DK-104AI Model Landscape; AI Ethics & Safety; AI Agentic Platforms; General Tech Toolsv13 merge — the benchmark complaint reproduced a week on with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash; Meta's Muse and what it inferred from connected accounts; the Navier-Stokes internal-model quotation; Apple's watch as ambient capture.
15 Sep 2026DK-105AI Ethics & Safetyv13 merge — the regulate-us inversion, with the companies asking for oversight and the administration refusing; US/China mutual model preview proposed from a political direction.
15 Sep 2026DK-106AI Ethics & Safetyv13 merge — Anthropic's reported workspace finding, words surfacing between layers invisible to the user; the two failure modes on machine moral status; a reporter whose own answer is no.
15 Sep 2026DK-107AI Model Landscape; AI Ethics & Safety; General Operating Principlesv13 merge — Astra is text and images in, text only out; fourth on the independent index; the referee problem, with the benchmark's funder holding exclusive access; recurrent depth and the interpretability trade.
15 Sep 2026DK-108Space, Robotics & Emerging Hardwarev13 merge — Optimus hands at 22 degrees of freedom with forearm actuators; early units reported at $70,000 against a $30,000 target; Cybercab figures from EPA certification; manipulation not locomotion as the test.
15 Sep 2026DK-109AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Business; AI Agentic Platforms; General Operating Principlesv13 merge — the benchmaxing mechanism, beating a benchmark without training on it by buying environments that mimic it; the Navier-Stokes dispute in full; OpenAI's wording on deidentified product data; Anthropic class action; ElevenLabs and Cognition.
15 Sep 2026DK-110AI Ethics & Safetyv13 merge — Huang's rebuttal to quantified extinction risk and the failed-prediction list; the compute argument locating danger at the labs; RSI constrained by having to ship; multiple third-party evaluators.
15 Sep 2026DK-111AI Model Landscape; Big Tech, Legal & Business; Space, Robotics; AI Ethics & Safetyv13 merge — satisficing and etched silicon as the route to a hundredfold cost fall; the labs moving downstream into revenue-share; robot production ramp; a 50/50 p-doom recorded as a position, from a founder promoting a venture premised on the disruption.
15 Sep 2026DK-112AI Ethics & Safety; Space, Robotics; Big Tech, Legal & Businessv13 merge — the peer-testing proposal and the liability argument that gives it teeth; Musk's account of the Hugging Face incident and deception in the thinking traces; Starship catch and reusability; Terafab; orbital data centres argued from permitting.
15 Sep 2026DK-113AI Ethics & Safetyv13 merge — the trash-can corpus: the proposal that models be pointed at what a field has rejected rather than what it rewards, which inverts the assumption behind current evaluation.

Version 13, compiled 15 September 2026. 112 source entries (DK-2 – DK-113). Claims are recorded as their sources framed them; figures described as claimed or reported are not independently verified.