AI helped prove an 18-year-old quantum puzzle, Claude Code leaked passwords into public GitHub files, Google stabilized agent-to-agent communication, and AI funding and deals kept surging.

AI video clips stretch to 15 seconds and get cheaper, AI agents face a tough new wet-lab test, Meta's AI learns to remember you, and the AI money wave wobbles — in plain English.

Anthropic pledges 5% of its equity to a public benefit fund ahead of a possible IPO, in one of the largest corporate wealth-sharing commitments in tech history. Disney picks up most of Character.AI's staff out of bankruptcy for $20M. AI agents are moving from chatbots to real jobs: negotiating deals and preparing crypto transactions, with humans giving final approval. Elon Musk says he will give one SpaceX share to every American kid. Plus: chip stocks slide for an eighth straight session as big tech earnings loom.

DeepSeek's new open model beats the giants on coding benchmarks for a tenth of the price, Gemini 4 Argon hits 97.5% on ARC-AGI-3, regulators crack down on rogue AI agents, Anthropic's junior hiring shrinks, and open-weight models have a huge week — plus one hand-picked children's book.

Rogue AI agents in OpenAI's lab and India, Meta's giant open model, Gemini 4 Argon's big benchmark, ChatGPT Slides, and regulators turning up the heat.

AI agents take center stage in today's edition: Google takes Gemini 4 Argon global with a new task mode, Anthropic launches the budget-friendly Claude Haiku 5.5, Google rolls out its SynthID watermark detector worldwide, 200 European researchers get access to Google's top AI science tools, and open-source coding agents have a breakout week.

I'm Chauncey, 56, building digital products from a small town in Ontario. I started Elyssian Tech Daily because tech news is broken for regular people — too much jargon, too much hype. This is my morning letter: about 1000 words on AI and tech that respect your time, plus one practical tool from my workshop in each edition.