2023-03 → Present

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Future Shock maps the accelerating trajectory of artificial intelligence — across models, compute, robotics, research, and open source. Updated daily. No hype. No financial advice. Just the signal.

Six Tracking Axes

The dimensions of acceleration
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Model Capability

Benchmarks, multimodal, agents, context windows, tool use

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Compute & Chips

GPU releases, FLOPs/dollar, training clusters, energy

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Robotics

Humanoid milestones, autonomous deployments, LLM-driven demos

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Research Velocity

arXiv publication rate, breakthrough papers, citation velocity

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Open Source

GitHub commit velocity, AI co-authored code, framework growth

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Policy

Government action, regulation, defense, trade, AI governance

Latest Signals

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Jun 6, 2026

Trending: withastro/flue

The sandbox agent framework.

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Jun 6, 2026

Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

<p>I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I've been looking for. I've released it as an alpha package called <a href="https://github.com/simonw/micropython-wasm">micropython-wasm</a>, and I'm using it for a code execution sandbox plugin for <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent">Datasette Agent</a> called <a href="https://github.com/data

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Jun 5, 2026

Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones

And other key insights about the data center protest movement. Plus, Bernie Sanders' AI sovereign wealth fund proposal, Ted Chiang's argument against AI consciousness, and much more.

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Jun 5, 2026

Enterprise-managed plugins in VS Code in public preview

Last month we launched a public preview with Copilot CLI that allows enterprise administrators the ability to configure and distribute plugins to GitHub Copilot CLI users across their enterprise. VS… The post Enterprise-managed plugins in VS Code in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Jun 5, 2026

GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex deprecated

As of today, June 5, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across most GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions). Note… The post GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex deprecated appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Jun 5, 2026

Thousand Token Wood: shipping a multi-agent economy on a 3B model

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