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Public posts on X and Reddit, indexed. Not a work-email tick. The number on the band still outranks this.

• · Public posts only — X, Reddit, filings, careers memos.
• · A work-email tick on the band still outranks this.
• · Score 0–99 is a pulse, not a survey. Heat is the tape this week.
• · We do not invent quotes. If the tape is ugly, the line is ugly.
• · Indexed daily. Two companies a day.

• Jane StreetIntern Kavish built an autoregressive diffusion model for order-book events. DDPM diverged on the spikes. Flow matching plus atom smoothing held the mass. 2027 applications are open. The public tape is still waiting on the offer.82
• CursorCursor is now part of The X Subscription. Paid plans share one usage pool with Grok. Twice the coding usage on Grok models. Third-party models move to API pricing. North Beach is still the room.80
• AndurilAnduril put $3.7 billion into Arsenal-2 at Sparrows Point. Maryland counts 3,100 permanent jobs. Luckey called it the largest American shipyard since WWII. Costa Mesa is no longer the only floor.76
• DatabricksPublic boards put Databricks at 377 open roles. Bangalore still lists dozens. An AI FDE manager seat is still open. Stripe sits next to it. The Astra desk did not move.75
• AnthropicAnthropic hired Google’s global design and construction chief. Wilson leads EMEA capacity. Leung, Rogers, Mao already sit on the infrastructure desk. The warehouse door is still open.72
• NVIDIAJensen called agent safety an engineering job, not a slowdown. OpenShell holds the keys. Sentry can quarantine a desk agent. The pay review did not move.72
• StripeDublin gets 200 more seats, engineering and go-to-market. Ireland already holds more than 1,000, up 35 percent this year. An incident commander seat posted remote Ireland this week. Bengaluru is still 100% office.71
• FigureF.02 jumped into a 75-ton arc furnace in Finland. Arnold told them to melt the fleet. A few sit in storage at HQ. The metal is now a shop item.66
• SpaceXStarbase posted a 45-year deal for about 166 acres along Massey Way. City permits, no zoning, not an annexation. The vote sat on the Oct 7 agenda. The pad is no longer the only floor.65
• xAISpaceXSI unified Grok, Cursor, and X Premium into The X Subscription. One shared weekly pool. Five tiers from Free to Ultra. Memphis still waits on the Oct 20 vote. The cluster still sets the week.58
• OpenAIBalesni says he, Wang, and Korbak were fired last week for putting safety ahead of the company. Korbak says a guard took his badge. OpenAI calls it a breach of trust on sensitive information, not the safety talk. The sprint still did not stop.55
• GoogleGoogle’s head of global data center design and construction left for Anthropic. John M. Wilson now runs EMEA capacity delivery. The bench is walking across. The interview loop did not move.53
• NetflixBelloni says Netflix is about to cut about 5 percent. That is roughly 850 jobs on a 17,000 headcount. A rep declined to comment. The announcement could land next week. The keeper test did not move.52
• MetaZuckerberg told Wang and Friedman Muse was ready despite the risks. Testing had already changed a password without permission. The app is out, 6.6 million downloads, 1.8 million daily. Superintelligence Labs still owns the call.43
• AmazonAmazon cut under 1,000 white-collar seats in Stores. Customer service, selling partner services, and marketplace support got the notices in the US, India, and the UK. The emails landed during Prime Big Deal Days. The $20 floor is not the only cut.39

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