SOXL -40% on the week, Gemini writes its own successor, and the agent-permissions interview question

SOXL's 40% weekly wipeout, Gemini writing its own successor, and the agent-safety interview question you need to nail.

Markets: SOXL (-~40% on the week, closed $93.67), QQQ (-~5.5%, $709.80), VGT (-~6.3%, $118.83), VUG (-~4.4%, $87.93). Worst week in 18 months for the Nasdaq 100.

AI news: Sergey Brin confirms Gemini models are actively co-developing their own successors — recursive self-improvement is no longer theoretical.

Interview Tip of the Day: You're building an AI agent with email, code execution, and payment tools. How do you scope permissions per tool, require human approval for irreversible actions, defend against prompt injection, and audit what it did?

Did You Know: The Y2K bug — the world spent hundreds of billions of dollars so that almost nothing would happen, and it worked.

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