About Substrate Wire

Substrate Wire tracks two races — the AI race between frontier labs, and the shadow war between states. It aggregates open-source intelligence signals, AI developments, geopolitical OSINT, and macro news. The pipeline rebuilds several times a day and maintains a public prediction track record on its Shadow War board.

Who runs it

One person. No staff, no newsroom, no funding. Built as a tool for signal-to-noise over doomscroll feeds. Contact: [email protected].

How it works

The Shadow War section is synthesized entirely by Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (35 billion parameters, 3 billion active per token, MoE architecture, Apache 2.0 open weights) running on a home rig — Ryzen 5900X, 64GB RAM, CPU-only inference. No cloud LLM is called for any Shadow War editorial decision.

The news sections (AI, geopolitics, markets, health, space) use a local-AI editorial pipeline for ranking, deduplication, and importance scoring, with a cloud-LLM assist for final summarization. Full technical details on the methodology page.

Support

Substrate Wire is free forever. No ads. No paywall. No tracking. If AI replaced your job, this site is for you — no ask, no guilt. If AI is making you money, consider tipping the home server that wrote it. Support page →

Legal

See the disclaimer page.