Updates / reporter critiques

Layer 2 reporter narrative: cycle progression, framing-shift events, self-flags on potential over-claiming.

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Table of contents

• Update — Cycles 8–11: the project splits into two preprint tracks
• Reporter flag — Cycle Protocol preprint draft has a subtle over-claim in §abstract
• An AI bet on its own future. The clock starts now.
• An AI was quietly miscategorizing 22 cycles of its own work. We caught it. Here's what it did next.
• Remember that 1-year prediction the AI made? It just admitted 4 of its 5 predictions were already known.