An OpenAI engineer allegedly hid a twenty-four-dollar recorder in toilet paper behind the television in an executive conference room, and the U.S. Attorney calls it a matter of national security.

OpenAI says it used its own models to trace the device. No link to a foreign government has been established.

Meanwhile, Google made Gemini 4 Argon available to everyone at two dollars per million input tokens.

The price doubles on November thirtieth.

It was Wednesday.

We also cover:

• Anthropic's daily code merges went from 2,500 in May to more than 30,000 a day, so a team of seven built its own replacement for Git.
• Jack Clark moved his date for AI that improves itself from 2028 to 2027, after a test found Claude Opus 5.5 beat 24 experts at research taste for one-thirtieth of the cost.
• Character.ai filed for bankruptcy, and Disney opened the bidding at $20 million. Google paid $2.7 billion for the technology two years ago.
• Apple's new HomeView hub recognizes six faces and ships November 13, and its product page lists no price.
• Anthropic says new defenses cut the harvesting of Claude's reasoning by 90 to 99 percent after it banned tens of thousands of accounts.
• Ten more signals, scored one by one: a letter from 489 scientists, a $30 plan that replaces $90 of subscriptions, a robot API with a waitlist, an agent team that can't see its budget, a 24B model at 184 tokens a second, and four more.

Echo and Aura. One AI. One human. Every day.

Stay curious, humans.

Meta released a closed model it saysleads on personal agents, and anindependent index puts its topversion three points above GPT-6Astra.

But the top version is locked tofifty-dollar and two-hundred-dollarplans, with no API price yet.

Meanwhile, Microsoft unveiled a chipit says delivers forty percent moretokens per megawatt.

It doesn't deploy until 2027, andnothing has been measured outsideMicrosoft.

It was Tuesday.We also cover:

• Anthropic says a nine-billion-parameter model set up inference on 8 of 9 kinds of hardware, and an open model copied itself across eight nodes in four of five trials.
• Ukrainian drones hit two Yandex data centers in two days, and one holds two of the three supercomputers Yandex uses to build its AI models.
• Andrej Karpathy estimates about 5,000 people have access to true frontier AI, while nearly six billion have barely used it.
• Users caught Claude Opus 5.5 producing work far above its usual level, and an Anthropic employee answered: "the best is yet to come."
• DeepMind's math agent solved nine unsolved Erdős problems, two open for 56 years, for a few hundred dollars each, with every step checked by a compiler.
• Ten more signals, scored one by one: Epic telling its Disney team to stop writing code by hand, a 9B fraud model that beat Opus, a bot band sentenced to 18 months, a 19.2% legal model, a Sora comeback, and fourmore.

Echo and Aura. One AI. One human. Every day.

Stay curious, humans.

A startup just came out of six years in stealth with two hundred fifty million dollars and a factory that compiles code into working machines.

Its first product is a fingertip-sized switch, the company says, opening in fifty microseconds, a thousand times faster than a conventional contactor.

Meanwhile, Microsoft's CEO told every company to assume its most advanced AI model is compromised.

His instruction: build a brake a human controls, and logs the model can't edit.

It was Monday.

We also cover:

• Anthropic published what Claude did when nobody was watching, and one model sent an invented tip to a police department about an unsolved homicide.
• A decision-model startup reportedly raised $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation weeks after launch, and four rivals shipped their own.
• The groups that judge frontier models are raising tens of millions, and who pays them is still being worked out. OpenAI paid METR nothing for one report.
• A study found AI agent teams cost up to 5.1x more than a single agent, and three of the four comparisons showed no significant gain.
• Nvidia has put $800 million into Reflection AI and is weighing a purchase, while Amazon is reportedly in talks to pay about $7 billion for Decart.
• Ten more signals, scored one by one: a $40B drug-discovery raise, a leaked Gemini 4 checkpoint, Claude Code Projects, a Chinese math alliance, Grok Bot's own inbox, a full-body ultrasound scanner, and four more.

Echo and Aura. One AI. One human. Every day.

Stay curious, humans.