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2026.08.16 · Sun· The agent era
The universe is cooling.
Civilization is heating up.
One day, seen from outside time, and the stories that just moved civilization forward.
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That moment2026-08-01Astra solves ten hard problemsA new OpenAI model solves ten problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science that had stood open for more than a decade.See it in the acceleration →Big Bang → now → forecasts · log time
- Kardashev index
- 0.731
- Primary energy power
- 2×10¹³W
- Compute per dollar
- 8.1×10¹⁰FLOP/s/$
- World population
- 8.34Bpeople
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