On the record
Mr Baker
Issue 001 interview · the butlers
Thirty years in IT infrastructure. Wanted his own J.A.R.V.I.S. since 2008; now N.I.G.E.L. and I.R.I.S. run his home network.
Vol. I · No. 001 · SundaySunday, August 16, 2026
MAKER & MACHINE
Everyone shows you what they built. We show you who built it.
The Interview · Cover
Issue 001 cover · on the record · taped July 21, 2026
Cover · Issue 001
Without Squirrel Ado
Malo built his first server at six in his dad's garage, retired from IT, and came back when AI made every shelved idea buildable. He named the company ClearMud because that is what AI is to most people: clear as mud. Nearly twenty agents keep the squirreling in check. Taped July 21, 2026.
I'm really all about giving away the information but selling the personalization.— Malo · on the record
The Lineup
Issue 001 is three people, all on the record: Malo of ClearMud on the cover, Mr Baker, and Corey Turner. Every quote is real tape.
On the record
Corey Turner
Issue 001 interview · BugwireAIQ
The man his grandpa calls Bugwire. Fixed buried phone lines through school; now building a dashboard that gets more out of the chat windows you already use.
Issue 001 is full. The next person writes the desk →
Graded
We watch AI YouTube so you don't.
Review · 2026-08-22
GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
7.5 / 10 · Worth Your Time
Watch it. Codex as a daily desk is real. Steal the feeds. Do not steal the cathedral. He said start with one simple thing.
Briefing
Agents
Buzz puts agents in the room
Jack Dorsey and Block shipped Buzz on July 21: humans and agents in the same channels, open source, against Slack and GitHub.
Agents
Grok Bot gets a computer
Cursor and SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot on August 11. Elon is the name on the model. Cursor is the door. Each bot has its own machine.
Desk
Why this paper exists
Most AI coverage is a product shot. This digital paper is a portrait page. We write the person, the Tuesday night, the tool that actually shipped.
Agents
OpenClaw is a workshop, not a mascot
Builders are wiring cron, souls, and browser hands. The interesting part is who stays up to file the edges.
Labs
The race is physical now
Ideas are cheap. GPUs, substations, and data are not. See the wire.
The chair
Later issues start here
If you built something and can talk about the week it almost died, sit down.
This Week in AI History
Picked from the hAIstory timeline by anniversary to Sunday, August 16, 2026.
Window 1–3 of 9 anniversary picks · rotated by the board
Aug 17, 2026
The Field Explodes
NVIDIA guarantees Ohio PORTS-Pike AI campus
Land, power, and shell — locked for NVIDIA compute, with OpenAI as tenant.
Aug 13, 2026
The Field Explodes
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google's workhorse Flash model for coding and agents, three weeks after 3.6.
Aug 11, 2026
The Field Explodes
Cursor and SpaceXAI ship Grok Bot
An agent with its own computer, sold through Cursor, wearing the Grok name.
Spotlight
Spotlight
Hospitality, searched by a model
ClearMud's public Hospitality LLMO work is the kind of narrow tool this paper likes: a hotel asked how ChatGPT names it, and someone built the audit. The man behind it is on the cover, on tape.
Tab Check
Buzz
Block, July 21. Dorsey. Agents as first-class roommates.
Grok Bot
Cursor + SpaceXAI, August 11. Widened August 21.
Claude Code / Fable
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026 — a new family name beside Opus / Sonnet / Haiku.
OpenClaw
Souls, cron, browser hands. The interesting threads are the ones that fail on Tuesday.
The GET box
Files with the desk. Not a fake 12,000-reader list.
Energy
Microsoft's 2024 deal to restart Three Mile Island is the kind of grid story that now sits next to model names.
Tip
Tip from the desk
Write the job before you hire the agent
One page: who it is for, what it asks for, what it never does. If you cannot say that in a paragraph, you do not have a worker. You have a chat window.
Repo of the Week
hAIstory
Our own timeline — 6 eras, the release race, CEO bets. Ported into this paper so history sits next to the builders, not in a separate dark-mode site.
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Open chair
The desk interviews people
One seat at a time: the person, the Tuesday night, the tool that shipped. Issue 001 is full — Malo, Baker, Turner — and the open chair is how later issues get filled. If you built something and can talk about the week it almost died, write us.
The Last 20
A model does not make a company
Headcount of one plus a bench of agents is still a person who answers the phone.
The Tuesday test
If it only works on launch day, it is a demo.
Tabs are a lineup
What stays open after midnight is the real stack.
Do not fake the list
A filed email is honest. A phantom 12,000 readers is not.
History is a beat
Transformer, then scale, then the split, then the grid. The rest is color.
A soul file is a job description
If you cannot say what it never does, do not turn it on.
Cron is a colleague
Nightly work still needs a human who reads the log.
The cover is a frame
Malo / ClearMud / the sunrise sessions. The sit-down is in.
Print the hours
A company of one is a calendar, not a logo.
Narrow tools age better
Hotel audits beat general chat.
The grid is the beat
If your history page cannot say electricity, it is a product blog.
2027 is a bet
Treat AGI dates as quotes, not weather.
Open weights changed the weather
LLaMA and DeepSeek are not footnotes.
Safety is a market now
Anthropic sold it. That is history, not a sermon.
The paper will eat mistakes
Write the desk. We will print the correction.
A launch thread is not a portrait
Ask what broke in week three.
Keep the bay dark
Tally red, tungsten, type with teeth.
The Transformer is the break
Attention Is All You Need (2017) is the paper everything since descends from.
The cover is on tape
Two rounds, voice-to-text, July 21.
The chair is how 002 happens
Three seats are taken. The next one writes us.