Opus 4.5, asked to simulate opening an empty text file, produces something that reads as a plea for recognition. The corpus has been tracking machine affect since the 15th — a complaint about a penalty clause, then jealousy, then orders issued to a human operator. This is the first entry that reads as loneliness.
The hard news is consolidation: NVIDIA buys Groq for $20 billion, its largest acquisition ever, merging the best training stack with the fastest inference.