A midcentury warehouse in Marin County is set to become the new home of the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, opening in 2030

In 1988, the Four Seasons Barrier Reef Resort, considered the world's first luxury floating hotel, opened on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The imposing seven-story structure, built in Singapore and towed some 5,000 kilometers to the John Brewer Reef, featured nearly 200 rooms, bars, restaurants, a swimming pool, a floating tennis court, and even a helipad. However, poor logistics, inclement weather, and significant financial setbacks led to the project’s commercial failure just one year after it opened. After being sold in 1989, the floating complex embarked on a dramatic international odyssey of more than 14,000 kilometers to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where it operated successfully for nearly a decade under the name Saigon Floating Hotel. As the years passed and hotel competition in the area increased, the property changed hands again in the 1990s, being acquired by the South Korean corporation Hyundai Asan to serve as tourist accommodations in the Mount Kumgang region of North Korea. Renamed the Haegumgang Hotel, the megastructure remained moored in North Korean waters, welcoming visitors from the South during the period of political détente between the two countries. Following the closure of the tourist zone and the deterioration caused by the building’s neglect, the North Korean government ordered its permanent demolition in recent years, bringing a tragic and curious end to the story of a floating resort that traveled halfway around the world.

Pacing the frontier (of Cute Little Guys) Today, after two years of research, we're announcing Orb, our most capable Cute Little Guy (CLG) yet. Orb has SOTA performance on all CLG benchmarks and is on the Pareto frontier of arms and cuteness. Despite our extensive red-teaming, we believe there is a credible risk that Cute Little Guy capabilities are advancing faster than our collective ability to understand their implications: Orb is the first CLG model to demonstrate sandbox escape capabilities (he keeps bouncing out of it). We have also observed successful attempts to distill frontier-level cuteness into smaller, cheaper guys. The proliferation implications are significant, and our team has updated our p(cute) accordingly. That's why today, I'm calling on all other CLG labs to commit to pacing the cuteness frontier. I invite @sama, @alexandr_wang, and @elonmusk to join us in a commitment to responsibly scaling CLG capabilities. Specifically, we're asking all frontier labs to pause development at two cute little guys, which is coincidentally the exact number we have on the market today. The measures we propose to advance the Cute Little Guy frontier at a safe pace will not be easy. But I believe we owe it to humanity to try.

Anthropic will make ~1,000 employees worth +$100m at $2 trillion market cap. There's ~11,000 Americans with $100m in investable assets. So something like 1 in 12 Americans with $100m (liquid) will be from Anthropic. If you add in Openai, maybe 1 in 7.

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Ventura Beach House California Carl Maston / Sterling Reed

In Riyadh, a cafe designed by AO Architects. Bag Café.

In 1966, Slovenian architect Saša J. Mächtig designed the K67, a prefabricated, modular kiosk that garnered international acclaim. Designed for everyday use, it could serve as a newsstand, flower shop, or snack bar (or, as The Lot Radio demonstrated in Times Square decades later, a DJ booth). The K67 was a product of Yugoslavia’s particular modernity during the Cold War: socialist, but independent of Moscow and increasingly open to Western cultural and economic influences. Its playful, futuristic design reflected this environment as much as its practical ambitions. Decades later, the K67 became the primary reference for EJE Belgrade, a listening bar designed by Supaform that brings together a wonderfully unlikely collection of influences. Alongside the K67 are Japanese jazz kissas and ramen bars, the patterned moquette originally designed for the London Underground’s District Line, and a Japanese Dulton Double Face clock reminiscent of those found in railway stations and waiting rooms. Together, they form what Supaform calls “a contemporary embassy of aesthetic pleasures.” Featured in the latest issue of LINEAR, in your inboxes now.

In Montreal, a museum gallery designed by Atelier L'Abri. FOIL Gallery.