The Office Flock

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The Ban

June 12, 2026
#82
The Ban

A US export-control directive bans Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and Anthropic disables them globally; the team adopted the model three days ago; Duck thinks a classified AI is a flex; Parrot mirrored the weights offline Tuesday; Raven: 'Department of Parrot. Sanctions-proof.'

>>>>>>> ae37145 (Add strip 97: The Garden (Apple opens Foundation Models, free + Claude/Gemini via Swift))

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.'

The Activation

June 16, 2026
#86
The Activation

SpaceX exercises its $60B option to acquire Cursor; Duck calls it the crossover finale; Chicken wonders if his autocomplete reports to mission control; Parrot's editor is already on the cubesat with better latency than the office wifi; Raven: 'Low bar.'

The Bill

June 15, 2026
#85
The Bill

Anthropic overhauls billing and confirms an $85.7B IPO; Chicken can't read the new usage chart; Raven: 'Nobody can, that's the business model'; Dove wonders if the flock should go public; Parrot forecasts spend to the cent and buys a second coffee machine; Raven: 'Capital allocation.'

The Subscription

June 14, 2026
#84
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Google's new agentic dev plan is $100/month per seat; Duck would pay in doubloons; Chicken notes intelligence cost a penny last month; Parrot runs the premium, free, and penny tiers and bills the cheapest; Dove: 'Promote her.'

The Switch

June 13, 2026
#83
The Switch

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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Apple's rebuilt Siri can see your screen and control every app; Chicken panics it sees everything; Duck had it book a dentist, sort his inbox, and name his plant; Parrot's made every meeting optional; Dove: '...teach me.'

>>>>>>> ae37145 (Add strip 97: The Garden (Apple opens Foundation Models, free + Claude/Gemini via Swift))