The first coin ever minted by the United States didn’t say “In God We Trust.” It said “Mind Your Business.” Designed by Benjamin Franklin in 1787, it also featured a sundial and the Latin word “Fugio” meaning “I flee” - his way of saying time flies so stay productive.

The entire first US coin was essentially a passive aggressive sticky note from a founding father. Benjamin Franklin built a country and still found time to be that colleague.

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DEEPSEEK

DeepSeek's DIY era

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has introduced a new feature that lets users build their own AI plugins using simple written instructions.

Called Creator Mode, the tool allows users to describe what they want a plugin to do without writing code.

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The competition has deep pockets

DeepSeek demonstrated how it could create tools for building 3D models and editing videos.

The launch comes as AI companies in China and the US compete to develop AI agents that can handle complex tasks with less human help.

DeepSeek has also formed a dedicated team called Harness to develop these tools, particularly for coding.

DeepSeek silently outpricing every other AI. -MV

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That’s Weird

Game devs are getting ghosted by their own coding assistant

Claude Code users say the model has started refusing some game reverse-engineering and recreation work, including projects that use tools like Reverse Engineer Anything. The suspected reason is a new rule telling Claude not to recreate specific existing games, even if the project is renamed.

That sounds simple until you get to the edge cases. Developers are also reporting refusals during normal game development, like copying a mechanic or patching an existing project, so the guardrail may be catching more than intended. In other words, Claude may have gone from “help me code this” to “sorry, this feels a bit too game-shaped.”

GOOGLE

Google's AI ambitions are closer to the stars

Google has successfully run an AI model on a satellite in orbit and received its first response back on Earth, marking a milestone in its plans to explore AI data centres in space.

The test is part of Project Suncatcher, Google's experimental initiative to see whether AI computing could eventually operate beyond Earth.

After launching its prototype satellite earlier in October, Google activated its onboard Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), chips designed to run AI models.

In brief:

The aliens didn't sign up for this

Using Google's Gemma 4 model, the satellite generated a three-line haiku about space and sent it back to Earth.

Researchers also tested other poetry prompts and requests involving satellite data.

The successful test confirms that Google's AI chips can run a model and process commands in orbit, although more testing is needed before the technology can support larger workloads.

Bro travelled to orbit to become a Tumblr poet. -MG

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