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Ceniy Mei
Ceniy Mei is the editor of What Led To and decides which events get a timeline. Every entry, together with its source and the automated verification result, is reviewed by the editor before it is published. Ceniy also built and maintains the research and verification pipeline described on the method page.
The site started in September 2026 with technology industry product roadmaps and will add other long-running business, legal and regulatory events over time.
Timelines edited
- US Export Controls on AMD's AI Chips in China: From the MI250 License to MI308 and MI325X
- AMD Instinct: From MI300X to Helios and the Gigawatt Deals
- Anthropic's Claude: From the Claude 3 Family to a Model the Government Switched Off
- Apple CEO Succession: How Tim Cook Handed Apple to John Ternus
- Berkshire After Buffett: Greg Abel Takes Over, and the Cash Starts Moving
- Do You Own Your Games? The Crew, AB 2426 and the Buy-Button Lawsuits
- The Fed's Rate Path: From the 2024 Cuts to Warsh's First Meetings
- Google Gemini: From 1.0 to the Flash Releases That Replaced a Pro
- Grand Theft Auto VI: From 'Well Underway' to Two Delays, the $79.99 Price and the November 19 Launch
- HBM Supply Race: SK hynix, Samsung and Micron from HBM3E to HBM4E
- Custom AI Silicon at the Hyperscalers: TPU, Trainium, Maia, MTIA and the OpenAI–Broadcom Chip
- Intel Foundry and 18A: From IDM 2.0 to a Government-Owned Stake
- Every iPhone Launch: From the 2007 Original to the September 2026 Event
- Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- Meta's Headsets, Glasses and the Reality Labs Bill
- Around the Strait: The Pipelines Gulf Oil Uses When Hormuz Is Shut
- Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7
- Magic's Universes Beyond Era: From The Walking Dead to Half the Release Calendar
- Nintendo Switch 2: From the Successor Tease to a Record Launch, 23 Million Units and the $499.99 Price
- Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face
- How Nvidia Came to Own AI Compute: From CUDA to the H100 Shortage
- US Export Controls on Nvidia AI Chips to China: A100 to H20 to H200
- GeForce and DLSS: From the RTX 50 Launch to 3D-Guided Neural Rendering
- Nvidia Data Center GPUs: Hopper, Blackwell and Vera Rubin
- OpenAI Frontier Models: From GPT-4 to GPT-6 Astra
- Oracle's AI Cloud: The Backlog and the Debt Behind It
- Pokémon Cards: Record Printing, Empty Shelves
- Social Security's Next Raise: From the 2.5% COLA to the 2027 Announcement
- How the Social Security COLA Is Set: From the 1973 Law to the Third-Quarter CPI-W Formula
- The Road to PlayStation 6: PS5 Pro, Project Amethyst, Two Price Hikes and the Memory Crunch
- SpaceX Goes Public: From the $350 Billion Tender Offer to the Largest IPO Ever and the Lockups
- SpaceX Starship Test Flights: From the First Launch to Orbit
- Starlink: Twelve Million Subscribers, and What Each One Now Pays
- Hormuz Disrupted: The Closure, the Reopening That Did Not Hold, and $114 Oil
- Student Loans After SAVE: From the Court Block to the Repayment Assistance Plan
- Tesla Robotaxi and Cybercab: From the 2019 Promise to Driverless Rides
- Trump Accounts: From the 2025 Tax Law to the July 2026 Launch and the Employer Matches
- TSMC Arizona: From a $12 Billion Fab to a $265 Billion Gigafab Cluster
- Record Beef Prices: The Smallest Herd Since 1951, the Packer Probe and the Import Fix
- The US–Canada Trade War: From the Fentanyl Tariffs to Section 338 and Dollar-for-Dollar Retaliation
- Who Cut Jobs When: A Register of Major U.S. Layoffs, 2025 to 2026
- IEEPA Tariff Refunds: From the Supreme Court Ruling to the Console Lawsuits
- Xbox Game Pass: The Price Rise, the Reversal and the Metered Cloud
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