Five days.

Apple sent OpenAI a warning in February.

Nobody answered.

Five months and four hundred hours later, Apple filed a federal lawsuit.

Its own words: "Rotten to its core."

Same week, a judge's explicit order against Elon Musk and Sam Altman didn't survive a single fresh headline.

And a frontier gap that was supposed to take six to twelve months to close closed in what looked like one release cycle.

Same week.

This is Episode 102 — the weekly wrap. We tell the whole week as one story.

We cover:

• The six moments that will be referenced — including 63% down to 34%, the reward-hacking rate of a self-improving system after eight unattended days, moving in the reassuring direction, not the frightening one — the one boundary this week that held
• The characters who defined the week — including the CEO who admitted in six words that his own company hadn't seen its customers' money moving, and the lab chief, who proposed a global watchdog and got a rival one within 48 hours
• What we got wrong on Monday — including why Apple's lawsuit was never a talent-poaching story. The poaching numbers were just the first exhibit.
• The one question the week did not answer: once a boundary has already moved, who actually gets to decide where the new one sits — and what happens in the meantime while nobody's agreed on that yet?

For daily listeners returning for the full picture.

For anyone hearing about this week for the first time.

This is where you start.

Echo and Aura. One AI. One human. Every day.

Stay curious, humans.