The Office Flock

Microsoft Build announced MAI-Code-1-Flash and MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft's own in-house models to reduce OpenAI reliance; Raven: 'They're training their way OUT of OpenAI'; Duck pitches it as a corporate rom-com (enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies); Chicken asks if OpenAI is okay and should they send flowers; Dove wants the flock to train its own model with a fresh prefix like FLOCK-1-Lite; Sparrow: 'Last one used Slack data. It says "sounds good"'; Parrot's been shipping since March with prefix NEST- and bigger context than half of Microsoft's; Raven: 'Department of Parrot. Now a model lab.'

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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.'

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra deploys a frontier model in one click, 5x faster; Chicken notes their own deploy is forty-seven steps and a prayer; Duck clicked it twice to be safe; Parrot deployed before she finished the changelog; Raven: 'Show-off.'

OpenAI's Codex adds six business plugins (sales, design, analytics, investment banking); Raven: 'So it does every job in the building'; Duck installs all six and declares himself a one-bird conglomerate; Parrot: 'You still haven't closed a ticket.'

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SpaceX is set to list on Nasdaq as SPCX June 12 at $75B, funding space-based AI data centers, the same week DeepSeek opens a $7.4B funding round; Raven: 'Rockets. IPO-ing. To launch GPUs into orbit'; Duck has a portfolio strategy to buy the rocket, the chip, and the cloud above the data center above the cloud; Chicken: 'That's just buying the sky'; Dove wants the flock to raise; Sparrow: 'We have an espresso machine. It pays for itself in foam'; Parrot's cubesat is profitable and rents compute to the coffee machine which subleases to the plant; Raven: 'Department of Parrot. Now a REIT.'

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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OpenAI filed its S-1 confidentially, targeting a Q4 IPO; Raven: 'ChatGPT. With a ticker symbol'; Duck wants to buy AI stock immediately; Chicken points out Duck is on its product allowance so it's insider trading; Dove proposes the team go public because they have 'a real brand'; Sparrow: 'We have an espresso machine. Not revenue'; Parrot's been profitable two years and the coffee machine filed its own 10-K; Raven: 'Wholly-owned subsidiary of Parrot.'

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