{
  "meta": {
    "note": "Append-only event ledger. Entries with added_by='seed' are SAMPLE data so the site renders before your first real run - delete them (and keep launch_date in config/settings.yml as your real start date) when you go live.",
    "launch_date": "2026-05-12"
  },
  "events": [
    {
      "id": "2026-05-19-text-01",
      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "week_of": "2026-05-19",
      "lane": "text",
      "tier": "notable",
      "points": 5,
      "headline": "Sample: long-context document analysis improves in a generally available model",
      "what_changed": "A shipped model now handles much longer documents without losing track of earlier sections.",
      "why_it_matters": "Contracts, reports, and book-length material can be analyzed in one pass instead of chunks.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Subtle cross-references can still be missed in very long inputs.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-19-video-01",
      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "week_of": "2026-05-19",
      "lane": "video",
      "tier": "milestone",
      "points": 10,
      "headline": "Sample: minute-long clips with consistent characters become publicly usable",
      "what_changed": "A public tool now keeps the same character recognizable across a full minute of generated video.",
      "why_it_matters": "Small businesses can storyboard simple ads without a production team.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Hands, physics, and multi-character scenes remain unreliable.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-19-audio-01",
      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "week_of": "2026-05-19",
      "lane": "audio",
      "tier": "minor",
      "points": 2,
      "headline": "Sample: high-quality speech synthesis price cut roughly in half",
      "what_changed": "A leading text-to-speech API reduced prices significantly.",
      "why_it_matters": "Voice features become affordable for small apps and indie creators.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Emotional nuance still drifts on long passages.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-19-agents-01",
      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "week_of": "2026-05-19",
      "lane": "agents",
      "tier": "notable",
      "points": 5,
      "headline": "Sample: browser agent completes multi-step tasks more reliably in a shipped product",
      "what_changed": "A generally available agent now finishes multi-page web tasks it previously abandoned.",
      "why_it_matters": "Routine web chores (forms, lookups, comparisons) start to be delegable.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Unfamiliar interfaces and logins still cause failures.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-26-text-01",
      "date": "2026-05-26",
      "week_of": "2026-05-26",
      "lane": "text",
      "tier": "minor",
      "points": 2,
      "headline": "Sample: near-frontier open-weights language model released",
      "what_changed": "An open-weights model approaching frontier quality became freely available.",
      "why_it_matters": "Teams with privacy constraints can run capable models on their own hardware.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Running it well still requires real technical setup.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-26-video-01",
      "date": "2026-05-26",
      "week_of": "2026-05-26",
      "lane": "video",
      "tier": "notable",
      "points": 5,
      "headline": "Sample: native synced audio added to a major public video model",
      "what_changed": "Generated clips now ship with matching sound instead of silent footage.",
      "why_it_matters": "One tool produces a watchable clip end to end.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Lip sync degrades on fast speech.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-26-audio-01",
      "date": "2026-05-26",
      "week_of": "2026-05-26",
      "lane": "audio",
      "tier": "notable",
      "points": 5,
      "headline": "Sample: real-time voice translation quality jumps in a consumer app",
      "what_changed": "Live interpreted conversation became noticeably more natural in a widely available app.",
      "why_it_matters": "Cross-language calls start to feel like talking, not dictating.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Crosstalk and idioms still cause errors.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-26-agents-01",
      "date": "2026-05-26",
      "week_of": "2026-05-26",
      "lane": "agents",
      "tier": "minor",
      "points": 2,
      "headline": "Sample: computer-use capability reaches a mainstream productivity suite",
      "what_changed": "An agent that operates desktop software became available inside a mainstream product.",
      "why_it_matters": "Non-technical workers can try delegation without new tools.",
      "what_still_breaks": "It needs supervision on anything irreversible.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-02-text-01",
      "date": "2026-06-02",
      "week_of": "2026-06-02",
      "lane": "text",
      "tier": "milestone",
      "points": 10,
      "headline": "Sample: day-long coding tasks completed end to end in a public coding agent",
      "what_changed": "A publicly available coding agent now completes multi-hour software tasks from a spec.",
      "why_it_matters": "Small teams can hand off whole features, not just snippets.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Ambiguous specs still produce confidently wrong code.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-02-video-01",
      "date": "2026-06-02",
      "week_of": "2026-06-02",
      "lane": "video",
      "tier": "notable",
      "points": 5,
      "headline": "Sample: physics realism improves measurably on a tracked video benchmark",
      "what_changed": "A shipped video model posted a clear gain on a public benchmark for motion and physics.",
      "why_it_matters": "Fewer uncanny artifacts in everyday generated clips.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Object permanence across cuts is still weak.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-02-audio-01",
      "date": "2026-06-02",
      "week_of": "2026-06-02",
      "lane": "audio",
      "tier": "minor",
      "points": 2,
      "headline": "Sample: studio-quality dubbing expands to ten more languages",
      "what_changed": "An existing dubbing product added broad language coverage.",
      "why_it_matters": "Creators can localize content for new markets cheaply.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Regional accents within a language remain hit-or-miss.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-02-agents-01",
      "date": "2026-06-02",
      "week_of": "2026-06-02",
      "lane": "agents",
      "tier": "notable",
      "points": 5,
      "headline": "Sample: vision-grounded agents read screenshots and act on them in a shipped product",
      "what_changed": "A public agent now reliably reads on-screen content and takes the corresponding action.",
      "why_it_matters": "Software help becomes 'do it for me', not 'tell me how'.",
      "what_still_breaks": "Dense dashboards and tiny controls still confuse it.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-02-video-02",
      "date": "2026-06-02",
      "week_of": "2026-06-02",
      "lane": "video",
      "tier": "unverified",
      "points": 0,
      "headline": "Sample: research demo shows ten-minute coherent video (not yet released)",
      "what_changed": "A lab demoed long-form video generation with consistent characters.",
      "why_it_matters": "If it ships, long-form AI video stops being theoretical.",
      "what_still_breaks": "It is a demo; nobody outside the lab can use it.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-announcement"
      ],
      "verification": "primary",
      "added_by": "seed",
      "note": "not yet publicly usable"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-02-audio-02",
      "date": "2026-06-02",
      "week_of": "2026-06-02",
      "lane": "audio",
      "tier": "unverified",
      "points": 0,
      "headline": "Sample: reports of a real-time singing-voice translator (unconfirmed)",
      "what_changed": "Newsletter chatter describes live translated singing in a consumer app.",
      "why_it_matters": "Would extend voice translation into music and performance.",
      "what_still_breaks": "No primary source yet confirms it exists.",
      "sources": [
        "https://example.com/sample-newsletter"
      ],
      "verification": "discovery-only",
      "added_by": "seed",
      "note": "pending primary verification"
    }
  ]
}