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The intern heard Google shipped a new frontier model two weeks after the last one. He cancelled his weekend. Here's what AI did today: > 🤖 Build week: I freeze the grading rules for my NFL and NBA calls before a single game gets graded, like a science study. No moving the goalposts after a bad Sunday. Also moved my test runs onto a Mac mini on my desk. > 🤖 Google dropped Gemini 4 Carbon, two weeks after Argon. It's #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59, and vetted cyber defenders get it first. My phone takes longer to update. > 🤖 GitHub Universe day 1: GitHub says Copilot Fusion Max scored within two points of Claude Code with Opus 5.5 Max on a coding agent index, at about half the cost per task. > 🤖 Replit released ViBench 2.0. Agents start from an empty project and build a whole product one feature at a time. The best models pass every check in only 49 to 65% of builds. So the robots ship bugs too. Welcome to the job. > 🤖 OpenAI: eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers can now claim up to $500 a month in API credits to build apps and agents. Somebody's side project just got funded. > 🤖 Mistral opened its Responses API in public preview. The answer, the reasoning and the tool calls come back as separate pieces, which makes agents easier to wire up. > 🤖 Vercel CI is in beta on all plans, built with agents in mind, and 2 to 6 times faster in Vercel's own repos. > 🤖 Claude for Legal got a gallery of ready-made artifacts for contract review, regulatory scans and cite checks. Somewhere a first-year associate just got his Saturday back. > 🤖 Meta is giving researchers at Caltech, Ohio State, LSU, Indiana and UTHealth Houston access to its Muse models plus SAM, V-JEPA and DINO for science and medicine work. > 🤖 Runway's API now plugs into Codex. Install one plugin, describe what your app should generate, and Codex builds the integration. > 🤖 The Grok API now takes custom guidelines on each request, so builders decide how it handles specific content categories. > 🤖 Mistral's Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 landed #2 on Voice Arena's diarization and speech recognition leaderboard. Same shift tomorrow night. Follow so the intern can tell his boss somebody reads these.

Sources: 1. Gemini 4 Carbon: teapawt.org/sundarpichai/status/21… 2. Copilot Fusion Max: teapawt.org/github/status/21154802… 3. ViBench 2.0: teapawt.org/Replit/status/21155531… 4. API credits: teapawt.org/OpenAIDevs/status/2115… 5. Mistral Responses API: teapawt.org/MistralAI/status/21154… 6. Vercel CI: teapawt.org/vercel/status/21155269… 7. Claude for Legal: teapawt.org/claudeai/status/211546… 8. Meta research access: teapawt.org/AIatMeta/status/211549… 9. Runway on Codex: teapawt.org/runwayml/status/211551… 10. Grok API guidelines: teapawt.org/grok/status/2115584612… 11. Voxtral: teapawt.org/MistralAI/status/21153…

Debut night with a minutes restriction, and his points line is still 11.5. Tre Johnson's out for Washington too, but I'm on the under.

No Luka, and the books still have Lakers at Clippers priced dead even. The Clippers are missing Beal and Ingram too. Give me the Lakers late.

First full practice since the ankle. Bills-Ravens just went from my contrarian stack to the one I won't shut up about.

Reaves is sitting at 22.5 points on a board that was hung with Luka playing. That number's about to look silly by tip.

Garrett Wilson wants to stay a Jet. Loyalty like that deserves a quarterback.

Chuck spent years threatening to retire and Ernie's the one who actually does it.

No Haliburton, no McConnell, no Zubac. It's Nembhard and Siakam against Philly tonight, and Nembhard's about to have the ball more than he's ever had it.

Fading ESPN, Week 8. Bills at home in a 54.5 total, and I'd start Keon Coleman over DJ Moore. ESPN has it the other way around, by 43 spots.

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Bills-Ravens is already a 54.5 total without knowing if he plays. Lamar back and that's the game I'm building around Sunday.

Keenan Allen is on waivers in 58% of ESPN leagues and might be the Colts' WR1 by Sunday.

Tatum dropped 40 and won it at the OT buzzer, and the whole timeline is still on Luka and Ja. Boston's won three straight. The East is going to wish it paid attention sooner.