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
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
Tell us what you’re building, what broke, and what you learned this week!
