Taylor and Alexa check in on week 33 of the year, where our algorithms have decided the future is airborne, underwater, and slightly unhinged.
Cache Board
* Model check-in: GPT-5.6 Sol holds the line while GLM-5.2, Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and DeepSeek V4 Pro crowd the open weight field, plus the NVIDIA DGX Spark as home inference that keeps your coffee warm
* Flying cars, from a paddle-docked personal aircraft to Japan’s first flying car wearing a Sony badge
* Elon on why AI progress needs hardware and software advances, SpaceX closes the Cursor acquisition, and Grok 4.6 arrives
* NASA moon base concepts, SpaceX plans for Starlink on the Moon, Starlink launches from an LA rooftop, and space debris as a metal band name
* Panthalassa’s underwater data center, visualized, and a wave-harvesting floating spine
* Archer acquires three Boeing business lines, a Regent seaglider built for defense, Anduril’s marketing, and a Palantir Maven Smart System demo
* A robot umbrella, AI tooling for fashion production, and try-on tech getting uncanny
* Stage four AI psychosis, the capybara handoff doc, and Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer’s dance video
* Codex’s Google Docs connector and Alexa’s open source Mark My Word
* If Bilbo had ChatGPT
* iBeer nostalgia and the case for bringing novelty apps back
* OpenAI’s new computer history feature, and what your agent really thinks of your workday
Wheel of Tokens
* Pullfrog, Zod creator Colin McDonnell’s open source GitHub automation, from auto-labeling to agent-written plans in CI
* Alexa’s full tool stack, mapped
* Decant, Dosu’s new open source project that reads your Claude Code and Codex session logs and shows where context, planning, code, and communication actually go
* DeepSeek’s open source harness, the 80-page paper behind it, and a live demo against the show’s own repo
* Alexa’s AI operating system: routing contracts, scripts before models, and a mistakes.md worth stealing
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