Attention Deficit Ep. 5 – It's Not a Shark, It's a Data Center

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

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

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