Technology · Issue 02 · Technology
Half a million robotaxi trips, every week
500k
Waymo paid trips per week, Mar 2026
Open full storyDaily watch · Rotates at midnight
Today’s four desks.
Robotaxi, industrial robots, intelligence infrastructure, and capital cities. The module in each chair changes with the date. The numbers do not pretend to tick in from an API — they are the last official print, played back live. The crash study sits on a separate markets desk.
Live desk
Daily watch
Robots, AI, robotaxis, capitals
Four desks, one module each, selected by the calendar. The series are published prints — not a live feed. They still play while on screen. Tomorrow a different chart sits in each chair.
Sunday, 13 September 2026
Next rotation in 14h
Technology · Issue 02 · Technology
1,220 robots for every 10,000 Korean workers
1,220
- 01Korea1,220
- 02Singapore818
- 03Germany449
Korea, robots per 10,000 employees (IFR 2026)
Open full storyTechnology · Issue 01 · Technology
Five times more compute, every year
5×/yr
Frontier training compute since 2020
Open full storyDemographics · The hall · Demographics
Jakarta was thirtieth. Then they counted the city.
UN World Urbanization Prospects 2025, new Degree of Urbanisation: Jakarta 41.9 million, the world’s largest city. The previous vintage had it at about 12 million and 30th. Dhaka 36.6. Tokyo 33.4, no longer first. Nine of the ten largest cities are in Asia. Seven of them are capitals.
41.9m
- 01Jakarta41.9
- 02Dhaka36.6
- 03Tokyo33.4
- 04Delhi30.2
- 05Shanghai29.6
- 06Guangzhou27.6
- 07Cairo25
- 08Manila24.7
- 09Kolkata22.5
- 10Seoul22.5
Jakarta, 2025 (WUP 2025)
Open full storyThe pools
Each beat is a short stack. Midnight picks the next graphic in the list.
Robotaxi
Paid trips without a driver. Waymo prints a weekly number. Tesla still does not.
Robots
Industrial arms are a census. Humanoids are a press release.
AI
Compute, power, memory. The model is the costume.
Capitals
Jakarta is first. Tokyo is third. Dhaka will be first. The capital is where the country densifies.