This week we get another update from Flora’s new squad. As a reminder, their mandate is to build the world’s first AI-powered, replicant-style robot. Things aren’t progressing quite how anyone hoped.

We’ll return to the robot team’s story line in a few weeks to see how they try to get out of this one. In the meantime, want to submit an anonymous question for Zen Paycheck, our advice columnist? Go to https://tinyurl.com/2p9pz5rz

This is our last newsletter for 2025, see you again in January!