The Office Flock

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The Branch

June 17, 2026
#87
The Branch

Anthropic opens its third Asia office in Seoul; Duck wants the flock to open a branch; Raven: 'We're ON a branch'; Chicken dreads a second standup; Parrot's nest is already a regional HQ with three plants reporting to her; Sparrow: 'Two of them are load-bearing.'

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The Plan

June 22, 2026
#92
The Plan

China commits $295 billion to a five-year AI infrastructure plan; Duck wants the flock to make a five-year plan; Raven: 'We don't have a five-DAY one'; the flock's assets are a whiteboard and hope; Parrot's Pi runs on fifteen watts and a windowsill; Raven: 'Best ROI in the building.'

The Library

June 21, 2026
#91
The Library

OpenAI partners with Getty to surface licensed photos inside ChatGPT; Duck celebrates 'businessman shaking hands with robot' returning; Chicken notes Getty stock jumped 200% on a press release; Parrot licensed one photo so the repo 'looks employed now'; Dove: 'Finally looks legit.'

The Laureate

June 20, 2026
#90
The Laureate

Nobel laureate John Jumper (AlphaFold) leaves DeepMind for Anthropic; Duck calls it the AI Avengers endgame; Chicken wonders if he should update his resume (he updates it hourly); Parrot reproduced his protein model in a 7B and he starred her repo; Raven: 'She's drafting Nobels now.'

The Capex

June 19, 2026
#89
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Goldman estimates AI needs $7.6 trillion in compute by 2031; Duck measures it in espresso pods; Chicken asks where the money comes from; Sparrow: 'Your free trial ending'; Parrot's line item is forty dollars and a Pi with better margins; Dove: 'Put it in the deck.'

The Migration

June 18, 2026
#88
The Migration

Google's Antigravity CLI replaces the Gemini CLI; Raven has migrated three CLIs this year and names them like goldfish; Duck never learned the old one so he's 'ahead'; Parrot aliased every CLI to one command that outlives the vendors; Raven: 'Bury it next to the others.'

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With Mythos banned, Zhipu's GLM-5.2 drops MIT-licensed with a million-token context, free; Duck: 'Banned Friday, replaced by Monday'; Sparrow re-points the whole stack again and makes a hotkey; Parrot's router swapped it in at 2 AM; Raven: 'It's picky about context.'

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