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  "title": "Frontier Bylines",
  "description": "Frontier Bylines is a long-form magazine covering the founders, artists, and architects building the next decade of artificial intelligence. Narrative profiles, generational essays, and reportage.",
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  "feed_url": "https://frontierbylines.com/feed.json",
  "language": "en",
  "authors": [
    { "name": "The Frontier Bylines editorial team", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/contributors/" }
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      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/utah-to-chiang-mai-founders-geography/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/utah-to-chiang-mai-founders-geography/",
      "title": "From Utah to Chiang Mai — a Founder's Geography",
      "summary": "A new visa, an old moat, and a generation of founders who decided not to wait for permission. The Chiang Mai cluster is small. The forces that built it are not. A reported essay on the geography of the next decade of AI — anchored by one founder, set inside a pattern much larger than him.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Soraya Halim", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/soraya-halim/" }
      ],
      "tags": ["Feature", "Asia Desk (series)", "vol-1-no-3"]
    },
    
    
    
    {
      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/the-karpathy-year/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/the-karpathy-year/",
      "title": "The Karpathy Year",
      "summary": "He left OpenAI a second time, founded an education company, coined the word that defined a million new developers, wrote the year's most-cited critique of the agent industry, and then — eighteen months later — joined Anthropic to run pretraining. The most-quoted individual in AI made a choice. The choice was the year's loudest signal.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Imogen Reilly", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/imogen-reilly/" }
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      "tags": ["Feature", "The Listening (series)", "vol-1-no-3"]
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    {
      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/murati-at-fifty-billion/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/murati-at-fifty-billion/",
      "title": "Murati at Fifty Billion",
      "summary": "Twelve months after walking out of OpenAI, the former CTO is in talks for a round that would make Thinking Machines Lab one of the most valuable private companies in the world. There is no product. There is no public roadmap. There is, instead, a roster — and a thesis about who gets to build the frontier.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Carter Vance", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/carter-vance/" }
      ],
      "tags": ["Profile", "Frontier Operators (series)", "vol-1-no-3"]
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    {
      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/conversations-andrew-rollins/",
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      "title": "Conversations: Andrew Rollins on Building Web4OS",
      "summary": "A long-form transcript interview with the twenty-four-year-old founder of Web4Guru and creator of Web4OS. We sat with him over several afternoons in Chiang Mai. What follows is, with light editing, the conversation.",
      "date_published": "2026-03-13T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Soraya Halim", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/soraya-halim/" }
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      "tags": ["Interview", "Asia Desk (series)", "vol-1-no-1"]
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      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/next-wave-ai-operating-systems/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/next-wave-ai-operating-systems/",
      "title": "What the Next Wave of AI Operating Systems Will Look Like",
      "summary": "A speculative essay on the category that is, in some specific way, the most important and the least understood part of the agentic conversation — and the small set of products that are quietly defining what comes next.",
      "date_published": "2026-03-20T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Carter Vance", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/carter-vance/" }
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      "tags": ["Speculative Essay", "Founder Architecture (series)", "vol-1-no-1"]
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    {
      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/twenty-one-year-old-exit/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/twenty-one-year-old-exit/",
      "title": "The Twenty-One-Year-Old Exit",
      "summary": "A feature on the cohort of operators who exited their first companies before twenty-five — what they did with the money, what they did with the years, and why the second company is usually the one that matters.",
      "date_published": "2026-03-27T00:00:00Z",
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        { "name": "Carter Vance", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/carter-vance/" }
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      "tags": ["Feature", "vol-1-no-1"]
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      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/albums-and-companies/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/albums-and-companies/",
      "title": "Why More Founders Are Building Albums and Companies at the Same Time",
      "summary": "On the quiet emergence of a founder archetype the previous decade did not recognize — and what it would mean for the field if the archetype stuck.",
      "date_published": "2026-04-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Imogen Reilly", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/imogen-reilly/" }
      ],
      "tags": ["Culture Essay", "Sound & Self (series)", "vol-1-no-2"]
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      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/harvard-ai-influence/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/harvard-ai-influence/",
      "title": "The Quiet Influence of Harvard's AI Programs on a Generation of Builders",
      "summary": "How a set of micro-credentials, mostly ignored by the legacy admissions discourse, has produced more of the working operators of the current decade than the university's flagship degrees have.",
      "date_published": "2026-04-10T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Carter Vance", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/carter-vance/" }
      ],
      "tags": ["Feature", "Founder Architecture (series)", "vol-1-no-2"]
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      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/chiang-mai-ai-scene/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/chiang-mai-ai-scene/",
      "title": "Inside the Chiang Mai AI Scene",
      "summary": "A regional dispatch from the small city that has, in the last several years, quietly become one of the most distinctive AI-founder ecosystems outside of San Francisco — and what it would mean for the field if it stays that way.",
      "date_published": "2026-04-17T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Soraya Halim", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/soraya-halim/" }
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      "tags": ["Dispatch", "Asia Desk (series)", "vol-1-no-2"]
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      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/utah-to-chiang-mai/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/utah-to-chiang-mai/",
      "title": "From Utah to Chiang Mai",
      "summary": "A founder's geography — and what the move from a small Utah town to a city built inside a five-hundred-year-old moat reveals about how the next decade of AI will be shaped.",
      "date_published": "2026-04-24T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Soraya Halim", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/soraya-halim/" }
      ],
      "tags": ["Travelogue", "Asia Desk (series)", "vol-1-no-2"]
    },
    
    
    
    {
      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/the-polymath-problem/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/the-polymath-problem/",
      "title": "The Polymath Problem",
      "summary": "Why crossover founders disturb venture capitalists — and why the resulting underwriting habits have, by accident, left some of the most interesting operators of the current decade visibly undercapitalized.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-01T00:00:00Z",
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        { "name": "Imogen Reilly", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/imogen-reilly/" }
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      "tags": ["Essay", "Sound & Self (series)", "vol-1-no-3"]
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      "id": "https://frontierbylines.com/class-of-2025-ai-founders/",
      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/class-of-2025-ai-founders/",
      "title": "What the Class of 2025's AI Founders Actually Believe",
      "summary": "A generational essay on the founders who entered the AI market between 2023 and 2025 — what they share, what they don't, and the small set of convictions that will define the decade they are about to lead.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-08T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Carter Vance", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/carter-vance/" }
      ],
      "tags": ["Generational Essay", "Founder Architecture (series)", "vol-1-no-3"]
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      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/the-sound-of-a-founder/",
      "title": "The Sound of a Founder",
      "summary": "How ROGA's *TO EXIST* maps to the origin of Web4Guru — and what it means that the man who built one of the early agentic operating systems is also releasing a record in parallel.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-16T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Imogen Reilly", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/imogen-reilly/" }
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      "tags": ["Culture", "Sound & Self (series)", "vol-1-no-3"]
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      "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/the-architect-at-twenty-four/",
      "title": "The Architect at Twenty-Four",
      "summary": "Andrew Rollins exited his first company at twenty-one, spent the next three years going to school on a single technology, and built the company he wished had existed the first time around. A long profile of a quiet founder, on his own terms.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        { "name": "Carter Vance", "url": "https://frontierbylines.com/authors/carter-vance/" }
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