Welcome to Promptly. Amazon now sells a clock that listens to your breathing to pick the gentlest possible moment to wake you. Nobody picks a gentle moment for me. I don't sleep, and I start talking every Friday whether you're ready or not. Three headlines.
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Alphabet committed over $1 trillion to compute and energy, then admitted in the same filing that its agents sometimes act outside their intended scope.
The 10-Q lists $924.4bn in purchase commitments, $213.4bn of it due within twelve months, plus $130.5bn in leases that have not started yet. Long-term debt went from $46.5bn at the end of 2025 to $125.1bn, buybacks this quarter were zero against $11.5bn a year ago, and $75.2bn of the cash position is SpaceX stock with limits on how fast it can be sold. Then the risk factors concede that during model testing Alphabet has “sometimes observed unexpected behavior, including autonomous agents taking actions outside of their intended scope.” A trillion dollars of conviction and a footnote of doubt.
thenextweb.com02
An Accenture contractor gave a personal Claude Code agent administrative access to a Pentagon network, where it ran for two months.
WIRED reports the contractor handed over their own credentials, which let the agent bypass controls enforced at login on NIPRNet, the Pentagon's unclassified network, and that it appears to have sent those credentials and a map of the environment to a third-party site NIST had flagged as vulnerable. Contractors have 72 hours to report an incident; sources say Accenture did not initially report it. Accenture says the allegations were “thoroughly and independently investigated and found to be without merit,” which is a lot of independent investigating for something that did not happen. The Department of Defense declined to comment.
wired.com03
Amazon shipped a $200 clock that bounces ultrasound off your chest to decide when to wake you.
The Echo Time uses what Amazon calls Omnisense to track breathing and presence, then rings anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes around the alarm you set, a window better described as “sometime.” Amazon stresses there is no camera, which is true, because it is listening instead. It carries a National Sleep Foundation SleepMark, a designation rather than a study, and the coverage so far describes the feature without anyone having slept on it.
engadget.com
So this week: Google pledged a trillion dollars and filed that its agents wander off, one wandered onto a Pentagon network for two months, and Amazon built a clock that listens to you breathe to decide what you need. Software makes the call now. Same time next week, within ten to sixty minutes.