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The Up to Speed library
The month, the year, the receipts. Every volume by H.N.K. STILKO. Nobody reads more so you can read less.
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Up to Speed 2025: Artificial Intelligence
H.N.K. STILKO
Everything artificial intelligence actually did in 2025, told by someone who watched all of it. The deals, the launches, the fights, the bills. Every claim dated and sourced in the prose, so you can check it from a library shelf. No hype, no doom.
588 pages · 6×9 paperback
AvailableThis Month in AI
A monthly close-read of the fastest subject there is. Each volume stands alone.
This Month in AI — January 2026
Thirty-one days that moved AI into your bloodwork, your feed, and your phone. Sharp, sourced, and funny exactly when it earns it.
This Month in AI — February 2026
The month the demos stopped and the invoices arrived. The scale race, the megawatts, and the agents doing real work.
This Month in AI — March 2026
The month in artificial intelligence, from the announcements down to the fine print.
This Month in AI — April 2026
The month the rules started catching up. What launched, what stalled, and who paid for it.
The 2025 Annuals
One year, one subject, one sitting. The yearbooks of how it actually went.
Up to Speed 2025: Sports
The champions, the upsets, and the arguments worth having at the table, from someone who watched every game.
Up to Speed 2025: Pop Culture
The songs, the shows, the feuds, and the moments that owned the group chat. A yearbook for everyone who lived it at half attention.
Up to Speed 2025: Money and Scams
The year in money and the year in scams, side by side. What got cheaper, what got riskier, and the tricks that took people.
Up to Speed 2025: Health and Wellness
What the science actually said, what the feeds claimed it said, and how to tell the two apart. Calm, careful, useful.
Up to Speed 2025: Jobs and Work
The year work changed: hiring, layoffs, AI at the desk, and the new rules of getting paid.
The 2026 volumes
The year in progress, captured while it moves.
Up to Speed 2026: AI — The First Half
January through June, the half-year AI grew up in public. Six months of deals, breakthroughs, and reckonings.
Sports — Summer 2026
June and July, sport by sport. The champions crowned, the moves that shook the summer, and the storylines carrying into fall.
Entertainment — Summer 2026
The summer's screens and stages: the blockbusters, the flops, and the shows everyone finished in a weekend.
World & Politics — Summer 2026
Two loud months, taken quietly: the elections, the treaties, the standoffs, and what they set up for autumn.
August 2026
Five subjects, one month, captured as it happens. And when it ends, the omnibus.
AI — August 2026
August in artificial intelligence, from the launches to the lawsuits.
Sports — August 2026
The month in sports as it lands: pennant races and the deals done before the deadline.
Business & Markets — August 2026
Who moved, who missed, and where the money went.
Entertainment — August 2026
A month of premieres, charts, and comebacks, receipts in the back.
World & Politics — August 2026
The month the world made news, sorted into what mattered and what merely trended.
Best of August 2026
One month, five currents, one signal. The best of everything August produced, gathered into a single volume worth keeping.