What is this?

This site publishes AI news with a strict editorial policy: everything is exactly one year late. Today, the front page reads Saturday, 5 July 2025. Tomorrow it will read the day after. Model launches, lab announcements, open-weights drops, the arguments — replayed on the calendar day they originally happened.

Why? Because AI is moving faster than memory. Capabilities that felt like science fiction eighteen months ago are free defaults today, and the speed of that transition is itself the most important fact about this era — and the easiest one to forget. Reading last year's breaking news as breaking news is the most honest speedometer we know how to build.

The rules

• Everything really happened. Every story is dated and sourced. We never invent events, quotes, or reactions.
• We write in-character. Stories are told in the present tense with no future knowledge. The date stamp is the only wink.
• Hindsight is quarantined. Each story carries a collapsed "one year later" panel. Opening it is your choice.
• No peeking. Scheduled stories do not exist on this site until their day arrives — even though we already know how the year ends.
• The delay is the point, and it is never hidden. Every page, post, and clip says clearly: this is a replay.

Elsewhere

The X feed posts each day's news in-character, one year to the day — reflections live in the replies, where the community adds this year's hindsight to last year's headlines. A weekly newsletter rounds up "this week, one year ago" with the annotations included.

Corrections

History deserves accuracy. If we've got a date, a number, or an attribution wrong, tell us and we'll fix the record.