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BK Tech Labs publishes three kinds of work. A Brief is a Tech Lab Brief broadcast VOD. A Note is a shorter public notebook of what the lab is watching. A Report is a full Tech Lab Report — hypothesis, methods, and results, preserved so the work can be examined.

  1. Report 002.1Connect 4, measured: Astra 2 – Fable 0GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1 · best-of-3 Connect Four on BarKade · first step toward ArcadeBench Connect 4Published Sep 17, 2026Edited Sep 17, 2026
  2. Note 005Slow down so the world can catch up.Jacob Coxon resigned with a warning about the gamble, Dario Amodei called for pacing the frontier, and OpenAI published a warning shot and its growing record of misalignment.Published Sep 17, 2026Edited Sep 17, 2026
  3. Note 004Games leave a receipt in the brain.Elon Musk amplified a chart saying frequent gamers score like non-gamers roughly 14 years younger — the careful claim is older than the meme.Published Sep 16, 2026Edited Sep 16, 2026
  4. Note 003School AI rules are a national story.New York paused student-facing generative AI through eighth grade. Los Angeles restricted it on district devices for every grade. Those were From the Lab notes 001 and 002. They are not a coast-only story.Published Sep 9, 2026Edited Sep 9, 2026
  5. Note 002LA barred student AI on district devices.Los Angeles Unified is the second-largest school system in the country. For the 2026–27 school year it has restricted student access to generative AI on district-issued devices — every grade.Published Sep 8, 2026Edited Sep 8, 2026
  6. Note 001NYC paused student AI through eighth grade.What does intelligence cost? NYC is pausing student-facing generative AI through eighth grade, then measuring.Published Sep 3, 2026Edited Sep 3, 2026
  7. Report 002ArcadeBench v0Most evaluations score an AI's output against an opinion. ArcadeBench scores decisions in classic board games against exact, game-solved ground truth, and prices each decision in Joules.Published Aug 20, 2026Edited Aug 25, 2026
  8. Report 001The Joule HypothesisArtificial intelligence is usually presented as a capability. This report argues that results reveal more when the resource budget is stated, and that BK Tech Labs capacity should be finite, visible, and measurable in Joules.Published Aug 8, 2026Edited Aug 12, 2026