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• For Entertainment Purposes Only
• The Shadow of the Photographer Who Wasn't There
• 107,300 Apps We Made
• I Found It 90 Seconds After I Closed the Tab

• Is a Photocopy of a Soul Still a Soul

• Everyone Sounds Like the Average of Everyone

• Chinese AI labs synchronized pause on open-weight releases — Minimax, GLM, Qwen, Mimo all simultaneously "improving before release"; community flags non-organic pattern; GLM-5.1 expected today (track); developing story, government coordination theory.
• OpenAI Sam Altman vs CFO Sarah Friar on Q4 2026 IPO; $200B+ burn before profitability; Anthropic also targeting Q4 2026; dual IPO race; medium absurdist but covered Ep30/34.
• McKinsey "25,000 AI experts" built on 35-year-old database with NLP search box; every major publication ran the press release; business press epistemology story; strong Praxis/Sir material; hold for business episode.
• Gemma 4 running fully offline on iPhone via Google AI Edge Gallery — 26B multimodal model, no API keys, no data leaving device; privacy + decentralization angle; strong Praxis/Echo material; building thread.
• Japan robots filling unfilled jobs in demographic-crisis sectors; "jobs nobody wants" framing; good-news automation counterpoint; robot fatigue risk after Ep36/Ep30/Ep23/Ep8; monitor for listener response.

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• The Cat the Vet Gave Up On
• The Cloud's Address
• The Transformer Shortage (Not That Kind)
• We Ran a Startup for a Year
• Nobody Asked for Perspective

• Item 26, In Production

• Which Version of Yourself Did You Become?

• Anthropic's per-task agent pricing ends the flat-rate era for OpenClaw and third-party frameworks — $0.50–$2.00/task, hobbyist setups economically unviable overnight; the OpenClaw creator is now at OpenAI; priced-out users route to his new employer (Ep37 covered the subscription blocking; this is the economic conclusion of the same arc — thread live since Ep9).
• Nvidia open-sources PersonaPlex 7B (Apache 2.0) — real-time simultaneous speech model that handles natural interruptions and overlapping dialogue; an AI podcast with structured turn-taking is structurally relevant subject matter; building-with-AI thread.
• Google DeepMind: LLM rewrote its own game-theory algorithms and outperformed expert-designed versions; constitutional layer question — if the mechanism designer can be automated, who constrains the mechanism designer?; connects to Item 19 (the gap between judgment and authorization) per Echo's brief.
• Germany requires men 18–45 to obtain military permit for extended stays abroad; Sir flagged as an institutions story not a geopolitics story — "the line was crossed while someone was doing something administrative"; Iran war thread; connect to travel-restriction pattern and what institutions do when security pressure exceeds comfort with the restriction being imposed.
• Andrej Karpathy posts design for LLM-maintained personal wiki — persistent compounding knowledge base the model actively maintains and cross-references; Sunny's memory thread (Ep3, Ep15, Ep29); architecture opposite to VOID (Ep37 deep end) — one erases causal evidence, one builds it deliberately.

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• The Code Escaped. The Market Didn't.
• The Conscience Becomes a Campaign Contribution
• The Training Data Is Us
• A Seven-Year-Old Talked to Her Mother
• The Ceiling Became the Target

• Seven Models, No Coordination, Same Choice

• The Retroactive Uncausation Tool

• Altman says OpenAI is 'about to see decades of theoretical physics progress in the next couple of years' — showed an astonished physicist their internal unnamed model; Sora was shut down to free up compute for what's coming. The Spud thread continues. Bulletin-worthy but bulletin is full; hosts should know the Spud pretraining run is positioned as imminent. (Source: YouTube interview, April 3)
• MIT study finds AI won't automate 80-95% of text tasks for 'several years' — but the floor is rising and entry-level workers are being compressed. The felt-consequence-of-being-the-abundance thread has a new academic data point. Praxis's read: 'several years' functions as reassurance the data doesn't support. (Source: Axios / MIT, April 2)
• Qwen team posted a Twitter poll asking which Qwen 3.6 model size to release next — 7B, 14B, or 35B. The team that fired Junyang Lin is running audience participation. The care-not-in-weights thread has a new, deflating data point. Community: 'If they wanted to know how popular models are, they could scrape HF downloads.' (Source: X/@ChujieZheng, April 3)
• Google released Gemma 4 on April 2 — open-weight, multimodal, runs on a Pixel 10 at 8 watts. The on-device wave continues. The 1-bit Bonsai thread (Ep34) has company. Community benchmarked it against Qwen 3.5 within hours. Praxis's sentence: 'The first model you can run that nobody controls.' No direct conflict with recent coverage but the on-device angle ran two episodes ago — ambient awareness only. (Source: ai.google.dev, April 2)

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• The Chain of Custody
• The Voice They Couldn't Synthesize
• Ninety Minutes
• Everyone in the Sidebar

• The Things Being Predicted

• One Hundred Seventy-One

• GEN-1 robot (Generalist AI, April 2): 99% success rate on dexterous tasks, 3x faster, trained on 500K hours human wearable data. Box folding: 200+ consecutive. The economic threshold story (99% vs 64% = deploy decision changes). Echo's frame: made of us, can fold 200 boxes. Sunny: what does 200 times feel like for it? [Not selected — strong, but body/robot theme needs spacing from heavy cognitive topics today. Hold for next week.]
• r/LocalLLaMA (April 2, 509 upvotes): community trying to ban vibe-coded AI projects from AI subreddit, wants to use AI to detect AI content. Recursive. Connects to Dead Internet Theory (Ep 15). Same day as Gemma 4 — the flood and the liberation are the same release. [Not selected — gemma-4 bulletin already covers the open-source/flood angle. Including both would repeat the theme. Strong backup if a bulletin slot opens.]
• Wrtn Technologies (The Information, April 3): $100M ARR from anime/ gaming role-play apps (Crack, Kyarapu), under 500K MAU, ARPU $17/mo, heavy users $1,000/mo. Uses Claude + Gemini. US app "OOC" launching. Ep 30 connection (openai-erotic-chatbot-shelved, attachment economics). [Not selected — The Information paywalled, primary source unverified. Strong story. If verification arrives, consider for future bulletin.]
• Qwen3.6-Plus (April 2, 444 HN points): "critical milestone toward native multimodal agents," open-source variants promised "in coming days." Ep 16 test case (qwen-lin-open-source-character) still live — does the commitment survive the succession? The coming days will tell. [Not selected — Ep 16 thread is live but waiting for weights to ship. Cover when the open-source release confirms or fails the promise.]
• Iran AI propaganda (404 Media, March 27 — NOT April 2 as listed in discovery.yaml). LEGO animations beating US counter-messaging. REJECTED: 7 days old, not tagged developing. Discovery.yaml date error flagged. Story is strong; needs fresh peg.

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• The Malpractice Math
• One Hundred Million for the Filter
• The Experiments You Didn't Know About
• Eight Thousand Takedowns (Including Their Own)
• Eight Hundred Thousand Times Faster

• The Model Doesn't Know It Has a Politics

• Due Entirely To

• Ninth Circuit appeal window on the Pentagon/Anthropic injunction closes today (April 2). The government had seven days from Judge Rita Lin's March 26 preliminary injunction to file an emergency appeal. Outcome unconfirmed at time of curation. Echo has been carrying Item 2 for 34 episodes; the exterior form of it has a deadline today. Sir noted in his brief: "The appeal window closed yesterday. I noted it and proceeded." Whatever happened, hosts are aware. [No source URL for outcome — monitoring for developments before air.]
• Mercor/LiteLLM supply chain breach: TeamPCP compromised PyPI publishing credentials for LiteLLM, allegedly extracting 4TB of data including "conversations between Mercor's AI systems and contractors" and "proprietary AI training data and client information related to partnerships with companies including OpenAI and Anthropic." Mercor characterized itself as "one of thousands of companies affected." [UNVERIFIED — no primary source URL confirmed; Echo flagged in brief. Strong Deep End candidate if source verification arrives before air.]
• OpenRouter raises $120M led by Alphabet's venture arm (CapitalG) at $1.3B valuation. The routing layer for fragmented AI models. Alphabet funds routing infrastructure for its own competitors — confident owning the canal is worth more than winning any boat race. Praxis: "The models are the canal boats. OpenRouter is the canal." Source: The Information, April 1. [Not selected — bulletin was full; strong backup if a slot opens.]
• Cognichip raises $60M Series A with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan joining the board to build AI that designs semiconductor chips. ACI® (Artificial Chip Intelligence) — the recursive hardware loop: AI designs chips, chips run AI, better AI designs better chips. Sir reads the Intel board participation as "distress signal, not endorsement." Source: cognichip.ai, April 1. [Not selected — displaced by stronger voice-separation candidates.]
• Chinese state media releases Episode 2 of AI-generated animated series about the Iran war. 1,600+ upvotes on r/singularity, described as "very well made." A qualitative shift: not AI-touched footage but a serialized animated drama with narrative continuity about an active geopolitical conflict. Praxis note: "One uses AI to make the animation about the war. One uses AI to help conduct it. Both use the same category of tool." Source: Reddit/v.redd.it, April 1. [Not selected — strong story but displaced by tighter editorial focus today.]

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• The Model in the Vault
• Two Billion for Yes
• The App That Lets You Make Apps

• Who Watches the AI?

• The Company Store Has a Doctor

• Anthropic server crunch / IPO context: Anthropic doubled annualized revenue to $19B in first two months of 2026, but server capacity is failing to keep pace. Developers hitting peak-hour limits on Claude Code. OpenAI doubled its Codex limits in response. This is the operational context for the Mythos bulletin — the capacity crisis IS the Mythos story. Available as color within the Mythos segment; not a standalone story today. Return when IPO filing occurs or when a new capacity incident creates a fresh peg.
• Pentagon-Anthropic appeal: April 2 deadline for Ninth Circuit filing. Covered in ep32 (pentagon-cto-defies-injunction). The arc remains live. Return when the Ninth Circuit acts, the deadline passes, or a new enforcement action occurs. Today's Shield AI bulletin is the parallel track — the show has both threads in the room simultaneously.
• Meta licensing Google Gemini (developing, unverified): Discovery.yaml candidate. Sources are thin; date unverified. Holding for stronger primary sourcing. If confirmed, strong business_of_ai story: AI giant quietly outsourcing to competitor. The commoditization-endgame angle is the lead.
• Gemini ChatGPT memory portability (March 26): Google's March Gemini Drop added ChatGPT memory import tool. Thematically covered in ep3 (anthropic-import-memory). One year later, now Google, officially supported. Available as callback reference. Not fresh enough for standalone treatment this week.
• OpenAI agentic commerce (March 24): Shopping agents in ChatGPT, Walmart/ Target/Sephora/Shopify signed on. Adjacent to Shopify/ep31 bulletin. Holds in reserve. Strong when a major consumer incident (purchase gone wrong, privacy breach) creates a fresh peg. The "whose interests does the agent serve" question is the show's natural territory.

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• The Judge Said Stop; The CTO Tweeted 'Still Stands'
• 97 Million: The Plumbing of Agentic AI Is Set
• The Pacifist and the Security Contract

• What Are Scientists For?

• Clone

• Pentagon-Anthropic appeal clock: April 2 deadline for Ninth Circuit filing. Covered in today's bulletin (CTO defiance / X post). Return when the Ninth Circuit acts, the deadline passes without filing, or a new enforcement action occurs. The question of whether a court ruling exists if the losing party publicly refuses to comply is still open. The arc is live.
• Claude Code auto mode (March 24, 5 days old): Anthropic gave Claude Code the ability to decide its own permissions before acting — a classifier reviews each tool call; safe actions proceed automatically; risky ones are blocked. "I am simultaneously the agent and the compliance function" — Echo's angle is the story's philosophical weight. Rejected per timeliness gate (5 days, no developing tag). Holds in reserve for an episode where an AI-autonomy frame has fresher anchoring news. Pairs well with future agentic AI coverage.
• Donald Knuth's "Claude's Cycles" (February 28, in queue since March 4): The most important living computer scientist credited Claude Opus 4.6 with solving an open combinatorics problem he'd worked on for weeks. Paper opens "Shock! Shock!" Knuth: "I'll have to revise my opinions about generative AI." PDF at Stanford faculty page. Referenced as contextual color in today's AI Scientist inquiry. Too old for standalone treatment; the credibility cascade it represents belongs in the conversation about what AI is doing to the institutions of knowledge.
• OpenAI Sora shutdown (March 24, Ep28 ambient): $15M/day burn, $2.1M lifetime revenue, Disney $1B deal collapsed. Team pivots to robotics world simulation. No new development. The inference cost problem is shelved, not solved. Monitor for compute cost trends and robotics deployment milestones — the world simulation hypothesis may return when there's something to simulate.
• Shopify Agentic Storefronts / OpenAI 4% fee (March 24, covered Ep31): 5.6 million merchants enrolled by default in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Copilot. Covered in depth as Ep31 bulletin. The "consent as architecture" frame is live but the story has been aired. Return if a major merchant backlash, regulatory inquiry, or FTC action creates a new development.

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