The Office Flock

A 269-page federal bill would override all thirty state AI laws for three years; Raven: 'Two hundred sixty-nine pages to say never mind'; Chicken just learned the state ones; Parrot filed comments on all thirty and the senator still follows her back; Raven: 'Department of Parrot. Bipartisan.'

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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.'

OpenAI models can now be bought with existing Oracle cloud credits; Duck calls frontier AI a gift card; Chicken realizes finance won't see a new invoice; Parrot has expensed superintelligence under 'office supplies' for a year; Dove: 'Reclassify it.'

Researchers find top models ace short attention tests but lose the thread as tasks get long; Raven: 'Relatable'; Duck bonds with the AI that gets distracted just like him; Dove asks how to fix its attention span; Parrot: 'Same as ours. Smaller tickets.'

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Anthropic ships Fable 5 and Mythos 5, a tier above the top tier; Duck thinks Mythos sounds like a final boss; Chicken frets yesterday's best model is now mid; Parrot wired both into the router overnight; Raven: 'Once upon a deploy.'

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.'

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Google relaunched Search with Gemini 3.5 Flash default and Information Agents that monitor blogs, news, and social for synthesized updates — biggest Search box change in 25 years; Raven: 'In TWENTY-FIVE years'; Duck has fourteen agents including one watching his own tweets and one watching itself; Chicken: 'Who is watching the agents that watch agents?'; Dove proposes replacing standup with an Agent that synthesizes blockers; Sparrow: 'Then no one's at standup. Including the standup'; Parrot's agent has run for two years and the coffee machine subscribes and gets hourly digests; Raven: 'The coffee machine reads the news now.'

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