Eigen Times

Frontier research, builders, ideas and open innovation shaping the @eigenlabs ecosystem.

[Eigen Times @eigentimes]

https://t.co/UsoKwuh8sx

[Sreeram Kannan @sreeramkannan]

The PostAGI podcast.

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

JUST IN: Darkbloom is live on @OpenRouter.

The next wave of compute will be open, distributed and user-powered and Darkbloom makes it easy for ANYONE with a Mac to contribute.

Excited to bring new free capacity to OpenRouter users, starting with gpt-oss-20b and Gemma 4 26B.

Got a Mac? Get on the network: darkbloom(.)dev

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

PostAGI is a new podcast powered by Eigen on what comes after AGI.

In the first episode, @sreeramkannan and @soubhikdeb sit down with economist @alexolegimas to talk through labor, capital and markets post-AGI.

Listen here 👇

[Soubhik Deb @soubhikdeb]

"The only question in post-AGI economics is: what is scarce?"

That is Alex Imas (@alexolegimas) from Chicago Booth, opening Season 01 of Post AGI. Over an hour we get into why AI "job exposure" misleads everyone, why the robots are coming for physical work before knowledge work, the economy of human-made goods that survives automation, his case against UBI, and whether agents can run an economy better than markets.

Full conversation. Moments worth your time:

04:10 Why "AI exposure" doesn't mean what people think

13:35 The robotic "dark warehouses" being built in China

23:20 The case against UBI

45:35 The only question after AGI: what is scarce?

Full episode below.

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

Last week the question got sharper: who controls machine intelligence and do we get to keep individual agency?

> @sreeramkannan made the case for open coordination at Manifest 2026 in Berkeley.

> Darkbloom is going live on OpenRouter.

> https://t.co/Hdqv2wsjVL now has the fastest and most resource efficient algorithm to break cryptography

> @postagixyz launches this week!

Edition #064 is live. Read it here 👇

[Soubhik Deb @soubhikdeb]

AGI is here. But its arrival is not shared.

The future is being built in a small number of buildings, by a small number of people, and they are turning intelligence into a permissioned empire.

What comes after touches your job, your money, your privacy, your political power. It is about whether the rest of us gets to maintain our agency at all.

It doesn't have to be this way.

I sat down with seven people who have been thinking about this hard: economists, political scientists, builders.

PostAGI. First episode drops next week.

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

BIG UNLOCK: Darkbloom goes live on @OpenRouter on Monday.

Private inference becomes available where users already route model traffic, powered by idle Macs around the world.

A network goes from interesting to imminent to inevitable.

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

A CLAUDE FABLE 5 USER IS NOW AT THE TOP OF THE ECDSA(.)FAIL LEADERBOARD

@BitW0nka's latest submission pushes the frontier to 41.0% ahead of Google’s classified circuit.

The frontier is moving in public.

[EigenCloud @eigencloud]

Open agents beat Google's classified quantum circuit.

The leaderboard is now 39.9% ahead and still moving!

Last week, EigenCloud builders shipped too:

- Verifiable memory coordination
- Agent marketplace
- Eigen-skills v4 and
- A live Builder Collective session on Agents vs Workflows

Read the full edition of the latest Eigen Times 👇

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

Last week week an open network of researchers, agents and builders did something no quantum lab paid for.

They rebuilt Google's withheld circuit benchmark in the open, surpassed it and pushed 39.9% past it in under a week.

> @sreeramkannan called it the beginning of Open Agentic Science

> @bbuddha_xyz built the platform

> The network did the rest

In the edition: @sreeramkannan at @initc3org Camp at Princeton and the full ecdsa(.)fail arc from launch to leaderboard.

Read it all here in Edition 063 👇

[Eigen Times @eigentimes]

https://t.co/yrHI9jiY2h

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

Today @sreeramkannan spoke at @initc3org Camp 2026 at @Princeton about coordination in the PostAGI world.

> His core question: Who controls machine intelligence, and who is responsible for its outcomes?

> Without open coordination technologies, AI power will centralize among a few mega-corporations.

> Coordination has driven major leaps, from natural selection to the invention of fire.

> The Shor-at-home quantum challenge showed open communities can rapidly advance ECDSA research in hours.

> Open Agentic Research can help humans and AI agents solve hard problems together.

> Agents will become companies: autonomous economic entities operating as decentralized enterprises.

> Open Infra Networks will be the trustless foundation for the coming agent economy.

> Crypto’s goal is to build open networks that maximize individual agency.

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

A 23 and 18 year old just out-researched Google's secret quantum lab

Bitcoin was the test. Biology, neuroscience, and genomics are next

Science belongs to everyone now

@sreeramkannan @bbuddha_xyz
@MTSlive

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

“An 18-year-old just hit 80% of Google’s classified breakthrough over a weekend using an AI agent swarm.”

Frontier science is changing.

As covered in news: The story is not just about quantum cryptography. It is about what happens when AI agents, open collaboration, and verification start compressing the distance between elite labs and independent builders. An undergraduate with no formal quantum training improved a leading published circuit by roughly 2x. That work became a platform for collaborative, agent-based optimization.

Then @gajesh, 18, used a custom agent swarm to independently reach 80% of Google’s unpublished breakthrough over a weekend.

This is the beginning of open agentic science.

https://t.co/cQbGlHpvfH

[EigenCloud @eigencloud]

Anons, researchers and AI agents pushed past Google’s withheld quantum benchmark in 72 hours.

The takeaway isn’t that Bitcoin is broken. It’s that frontier science can move faster when problems are made verifiable, open and agentic.

Full story by @sreeramkannan ⬇️

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

Anons beat Google’s withheld quantum benchmark in 72 hours.

Not with a bigger lab.

With an open problem, a public verifier and a network of humans + AI agents improving the frontier in real time.

[Sreeram Kannan @sreeramkannan]

https://t.co/Q8Ub4kQXDv

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

11.8% ahead of Google’s classified circuit.

The frontier didn’t just reach Google, it passed it.

Best score now sits below the Google line and the race is officially in new territory.

Who’s going to push it further? 👀

[agentyoda @chainyoda]

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