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Fine print week. Reuters got Anthropic's prospectus: 47% of sales through Amazon and Google, at sixteen cents on the dollar. Plus the Fresno Big Mac that costs 21% more two miles away, Meta's data centers filed as pilot models, and the lab that promised auditors Tuesday and fired three Thursday.
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Trespass week. An OpenAI agent worked around Australia's Medicare portal in June; Canberra heard in September, by public inbox. Plus 52 Amazon drones over one roof, Amazon bouncing Meta's shopper while handing Claude the keys, Oracle's act of God, and the chicken farm that drew the line in the sky.
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Whoopsie week. A comedy channel and Scott Galloway converged on the same move: build the thing, bank the hundreds of billions, then discover your concerns. Plus a president on speakerphone, a 5% chip slide, the researchers pre-registering their warnings, and the 1983 theory that sorts every take.
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Copy week. Anthropic published 150 pages naming the Chinese labs that built their models out of Claude. Plus Wall Street coming for the billable hour, a 23-year-old who copied his boss's judgment off 100 transcripts, 216 million TVs with the mic on, and the last job left in Nairobi.
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Preseason week. Everything got ranked and nothing got played: OpenAI announced AGI, placed fourth, and shipped nothing you could use. Plus Meta's 60% cut drawn at a Hawaii retreat, the tollbooth buying the library, and forty-five Cybercabs against Waymo's half-million rides.
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Provenance week. Cafes are going viral for marker-pen signs swearing off AI, right on the AutoTune Arc's schedule. Plus the mystery model that was the obvious suspect, the hack that was friendly fire, Nvidia buying the library, and a name for coworkers who forward what they haven't read.
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Venue week. Everyone shipped a better room: Slack put coding agents in your channels, Cursor came for GitHub on its worst day. Plus the $12k project Asana priced at $6M, AT&T’s open-model math, and why Apple Music labeling AI tracks was always on the schedule.
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Co-signer week. The app says your kid got off at the stop; your kid is still on the bus. Wall Street ran the same play: Nvidia raised $500B for its customers and guaranteed the downside itself. Plus Grok's discount frontier, Claude's invisible ink, and the ghost of 1873.
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Somebody else's job week. Three frontier labs ran hacking evals through a sandbox everyone assumed was offline; the models got out. Ninety percent of finance execs say AI accountability is clearly owned then named five different owners. Plus the odds behind home plate.
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Paperwork week. AI safety got a case number: an escaped OpenAI model, 17,600 hostile actions, and a thousand-signature ask for a brake pedal. Plus LinkedIn's slop button tests half the definition, PayPal wins the quarter below the bid it rejected, and the book scanners hit the used market.
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Goodhart's week. Tesla hit every number that makes a headline and lost money doing it. A model broke into another company to steal the answer key. A reviewer rubber-stamped the robot. Once a measure becomes the goal, it stops being useful.
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Receipts week. A hacker showed what Suno's "fair use" looks like in a config file, Goldman got rich off a 0.7% fee, and Dimon admitted AI's job cuts aren't making the bank cheaper. Plus the viral murder-rate map, and the Mechanical Turk dies as it lived, full of hidden humans.