The Office Flock

KPMG rolled Claude out to 276,000 employees across 138 countries in a single sweep; Raven: 'More users than most startups have HEARD of'; Duck is dazzled that Claude has frequent flyer miles; Chicken hasn't set up MFA on his account yet; Dove proposes a real deployment plan 'for consistency and governance'; Sparrow: 'Dove. We're seven birds'; Parrot has already deployed it to all seven of them, the coffee machine, and the plant in the corner; Raven: 'Department of Parrot. A hundred percent adoption.'

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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.'

NVIDIA's first consumer CPU in over a decade ships tomorrow with RTX cores baked in, and Microsoft is teasing 'a new era of PC'; Raven: 'A CPU. With a GPU. Inside it'; Duck pre-ordered three — desk, kitchen, just in case; Chicken wonders why his toaster has an RTX core; Dove cites the press release literally; Sparrow: 'Every year is a new era of PC'; Parrot wired one into the coffee machine, which now renders latte art in 4K; Raven: 'The coffee machine has raytracing now.'

California cleared thirty AI bills past the May 29 crossover deadline, ALL of them; Raven: 'Thirty bills. In ONE state'; Duck read one — the Sentient Compute Act — doesn't know what it does but loves it; Chicken panics that their agent needs a permit; Dove wants to appoint an AI Compliance Officer with a real title and a budget; Sparrow: 'We don't have an HR officer. We're seven birds'; Parrot's filed comments on eighteen of the bills and the state senator follows her on LinkedIn; Raven: 'Department of Parrot lobbies Sacramento.'

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Anthropic closed $30B at over $900B pre-money, passing OpenAI as the most valuable private AI company for the first time; Raven: 'The underdog. Is the top dog. It happened'; Duck celebrates that the flock CALLED THIS last month; Chicken cares about it personally; Dove can't plan a roadmap when the leaderboard changes monthly; Sparrow: 'Pick the one that won yesterday'; Parrot's router rebalances models nightly and the team is up forty percent on cost this quarter; Raven: 'Department of Parrot. Manages funds now.'

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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Microsoft Computer Use agents shipped GA in Copilot Studio, navigating enterprise software via visual reasoning; Raven: 'We unleashed superintelligence... on SAP'; Duck clicked through forty-seven nested dropdowns to find his expense category; Chicken worries if the AI is okay; Dove marvels that it filled out the 2003 timesheet portal IT never replaced; Sparrow: 'AI did your timesheet. We've made it'; Parrot's agent left a TODO 'this UI made me feel things' and filed a UX ticket; Raven: 'First ticket filed with empathy.'

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