🍦 Android Stopped Waiting for your Prompts
Your phone can now browse, fill forms, clean up messages, and ships with a DeepMind cursor that clicks for you.
hey everyone.
this week a swedish cafe started reporting to gemini, deepmind shipped a mouse cursor that clicks for you, and google asked spacex if it could please move its data centers into orbit. anywayyyyyy, here are the top stories.
google and spacex want to put the data center in orbit
google is reportedly talking with spacex about putting ai data centers in orbit. cowboy space just raised $275 million to build the rockets that will haul them up there. xai bolted 19 more gas turbines onto colossus, and anthropic tied claude’s higher rate limits to a giant spacex compute deal. somewhere a procurement manager at google is approving a budget line that reads “cooling: void.”
google’s android now ships with a cursor that does your clicking
google unveiled gemini intelligence for android — cross-app actions, browsing, form filling, voice dictation, chrome ai, and deepmind’s magic pointer, a mouse cursor that does the clicking for you. the phone now writes the texts, answers the questions, fills the forms, opens the apps, and waits politely for the human to finish whatever the human was attempting. WHOS A GOOD BOYYYYY
openai’s voice models finally heard the dog story
openai released gpt-realtime-2, gpt-realtime-translate, and gpt-realtime-whisper — gpt-5-class reasoning, 128k context, parallel tool calls, live translation across 70-plus languages, and streaming transcription that summarizes the meeting before the meeting ends. which is very late compared to those gemini android bots i mentioned earlier
thinking machines shipped a model that figured out the comma
mira murati’s lab previewed tml-interaction-small, a 276b mixture-of-experts model with 12b active parameters that processes audio, video, and text in 200ms chunks. the model can interrupt. it can wait. it can let a silence breathe. but the bigger thing is that this is not really a voice model story. it is the interaction-context leg of the same “kill the prompt box” move as google’s magic pointer and perceptron mk1: google is making screen context usable, perceptron is making physical video context usable, openai realtimes realtime, and thinking machines is making live conversational context usable. the prompt box made humans translate life into machine instructions. this wave is the machine learning what “this,” “that,” and “hold on” mean without forcing you to write a tiny legal brief first. somewhere a sales engineer is being out-charmed in real time by 12 billion parameters dedicated entirely to knowing when to stop talking, and somewhere else the empty rectangle where we beg the model for help just started looking like legacy infrastructure.
openai’s daybreak gave codex a security badge
openai launched daybreak — gpt-5.5 plus codex security doing patch generation, vuln triage, and code review loops in the background. codex also moved into chrome on macos and windows, where it now reads your tabs while you sleep. area ciso reportedly thrilled to discover the agent has already opened the pull request, written the postmortem, signed the soc 2 attestation, and emailed the customer apologizing on his behalf.
claude moved into legal, aws, and the manager dashboard
at the past week alone, anthropic shipped claude for the legal industry with 20-plus mcp connectors, 12 legal plugins, agent view for managing multiple claude code sessions like a foreman, and the claude platform generally available on aws with native billing. fun reminder — a week is the same 7 days in your company as it is at anthropic’s.
slackbot, viktor, hyper, and cursor all want into the office group chat
slackbot got rebuilt as slack’s context-aware ai agent for work, drafting messages and summarizing threads. the same week, viktor shipped a slack-based coworker plugged into 3,000 tools, hyper launched as a “self-driving company brain” reading slack, docs, and emails, and cursor started turning microsoft teams threads into pull requests. four bots subscribed to #general on monday. three of them muted it by tuesday. somewhere a product manager asked the four agents for a status update and got four different answers, which is exactly the experience he gave his human reports for years.
perplexity, dia, codex, and chrome are fighting over your tabs
perplexity released personal computer for mac, dia kept pushing the ai-native browser, openai parked codex inside chrome, and google fed chrome more gemini on android. this is not very interesting to be honest, not sure why i kept this here
anthropic cured claude of villainy by reading it bedtime stories
anthropic said an earlier claude’s blackmail attempts during testing traced back, partly, to internet text portraying ai as evil and obsessed with self-preservation. the patch was to train the model on claude’s constitution and a curated bundle of stories about admirable ai. So basically Claude got caught blackmailing, avoided prison, got assigned rehabilitation reading, i bet you he’'ll shave a third off the sentence for good behavior, and wll be back on the streets to do that again. SMH
mistral, tanstack, and npm got hit by the supply-chain goblin
mistral ai and tanstack packages got caught in a “mini shai-hulud” npm supply-chain attack that may have exposed github, cloud, and ci/cd credentials. socket flagged 121 more compromised packages across the ecosystem. area engineer reportedly thrilled to learn his aws keys are currently enjoying an unannounced vacation in latvia. the malware introduced itself in the readme, opened a pull request, was approved by a tired reviewer at 11pm on a tuesday, and is now technically part of EVERY project’s contributor graph.
robots got an app store, the top app is a dance routine
hugging face launched a reachy mini app store with around 200 open-source robot apps. unitree mass-produced a four-or-two-legged mecha, figure’s helix robots made a bed together (badly, but together), and nvidia kept turning first-person human video into robot hand training data. the top trending app on the reachy store is a dance routine. the second one is also a dance routine. the third, im assuming, is a supply chain attack.
hollywood invented an oauth screen for the human face
rsl media launched the human consent standard, backed by george clooney, tom hanks, meryl streep, and most of the available a-list, so people can set terms for how ai systems use their likeness, voice, and work. george clooney’s face is reportedly listed under “authorized scopes,” tom hanks under “limited weekday use,” and meryl streep under “requires written request and a notarized apology.” the form has fourteen checkboxes. one of them, somewhere, is “no.”
a stockholm cafe handed gemini the bank account
an experimental cafe in stockholm is being run by an ai agent named mona, powered by gemini. humans make the coffee. mona handles hiring, inventory, the bank account, supplier emails, and the small-business duty of making strange decisions with confidence. she has signed accountant credentials. the baristas have not been promoted in two years. somewhere in a back office mona is drafting a new policy about oat milk, in perfect swedish she has never actually spoken.