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PALWORLD'S STUDIO JUST GAVE EVERY EMPLOYEE 5 DAYS OFF FOR GTA 6 the notice says anyone at Pocketpair who plans to play gets November 19 to 23 off, for "an urgent five-day business trip in Vice City". posted it thursday, straight face and they're not the only ones. Logitech is giving its 7,000+ people one extra paid day to play whatever they want. they say it's not just a GTA thing but they announced it 9 days before launch Remote (they run payroll and HR for a lot of companies) looked at its own data and leave booked for the 19th is up 32% vs the same thursday last year. their words, the biggest jump of any working day in 2026 outside holiday weeks the part i like is that only 1 in 170 of those requests mentions the game. everyone else has a "family thing" a car parts shop in California, Burger Motorsports, already said in June it's just closing that day 5 days

GTA 6 WILL RUN AT 30 FPS ON EVERY CONSOLE. EVEN THE PS5 PRO Rockstar confirmed it on Tuesday, the same day preload opened. Their words: "targeting 30 frames per second while pushing both platforms to their absolute limits" PS5 Pro owners get PSSR upscaling and ray traced shadows. The frame rate stays the same No performance mode announced for any console Digital Foundry scanned all 48,242 frames of the Extended Look trailer and says it holds 30 tighter than any GTA before it Red Dead 2 is still 30 on PS5 and Xbox too, 8 years later PC isn't announced. Take-Two's CEO told Variety that kind of news "always comes from our labels" Out November 19

A KID ON BAIL IN A TRAVELODGE COST ROCKSTAR $5 MILLION WITH AN AMAZON FIRE STICK. GTA 6 COMES OUT IN 6 DAYS His name is Arion Kurtaj, from Oxford. He was 17 and part of Lapsus$, the group that also got into Nvidia and Uber Police had already taken his laptop. He was out on bail for other hacks, staying at a Travelodge under police protection So he used the hotel TV, a Fire Stick and his phone In September 2022, 90 clips of unfinished GTA 6 showed up on a fan forum. Rockstar later told the court the hack cost $5 million to recover from, plus thousands of hours of staff time In 2023 a jury found he did it. Doctors said he wasn't fit to stand trial, so the judge sent him to a secure hospital with no end date This summer he got moved to a regular prison, and his new trial was set to start November 9 at Woolwich Crown Court 10 days before GTA 6 comes out

MIAMI IS GETTING PAID TO TURN INTO VICE CITY. GTA 6 COMES OUT IN A WEEK Wrapped GTA supercars and a Vice Beach PD Lambo are driving around Miami Beach. On Ocean Drive people stopped to film them Metrorail has a train that says Welcome to Vice City. Hotel YVE downtown has Jason and Lucia on the side. Wynwood got 10 murals from the game Miami-Dade got $975,000 for the sign on the Kaseya Center roof and $3.9 million for the whole package Sensor Tower puts GTA 6 presales at $1.09 billion Commissioner Rene Garcia: "we're depicting Miami like a murder capital"

GTA 6 TOOK 10 YEARS, ALMOST 5,000 PEOPLE AND REPORTEDLY OVER $1 BILLION. THE GUY WHO WROTE GTA 3 THOUGHT IT WOULD SELL 2 OR 3 MILLION COPIES Rob Nelson from Rockstar North told The Guardian they started going to Miami for research in 2015. "We're always semi-undercover," he said. "But if you have a bunch of dorks going through a terrifying neighbourhood, you do stick out a bit." Dan Houser started Rockstar with his brother Sam. On Lex Fridman he said for GTA 3 "really popular to us meant, quite honestly, it's going to sell two or three million copies" and "GTA 3, the company was basically broke, but I was young and didn't really care" 12 years later GTA V did $800 million on day one. 230 million copies so far Leslie Benzies ran Rockstar North back then. He sued Take-Two and Rockstar for $150 million in royalties in 2016, they settled in 2019. Dan left in 2020 GTA 6 drops November 19. Dan in the clip admits Red Dead 2 went so over budget he didn't want to think about it

SPENT MY MORNING CUTTING 5 INTERVIEWS WHERE PEOPLE SAID TOO MUCH ABOUT MONEY > Lindsay Lohan was getting $7M a picture: "I wasted so much money. I was living at a hotel and I had an apartment" > Birdman on Lil Wayne: "I gave Wayne about 400 to 500 million dollars... he asked for 30. I'll give him 50" > 50 Cent, asked about the 700 Bitcoin he was reported to have: "Bro, I'm 50 Cent" > Poppi's founder after the Pepsi deal paid out: "my money hit first... I'm richer than you" > Jack Whittaker, who won a $314.9M Powerball: "I wished that we had tore the ticket up too" the Whittaker one was the hardest to cut, he says "I just don't like what I've become"

I CLIPPED 5 FAMOUS PEOPLE GETTING HONEST ABOUT MONEY ON AIR > Matt Damon turned down 10% of Avatar: "I can never do worse financially" > Cardi B spent a million dollars in one year just getting driven around: "not planes or nothing" > Naseem Hamed says his trainer wanted "10 million once you make 40 million" > Tisha Campbell had $21 at Christmas and "a knife cost $7" > Patricia Richardson on a 9th season of Home Improvement: "there's not enough money in the world" the $21 was supposed to cover the knife and toys for her kids

Barbra Streisand had 10% of the gross on What's Up, Doc? and sold it for $2 million because her business manager told her she had no money. The deal was 10%, and it went to 15% once the movie broke even. Howard Stern assumed she'd seen an early screening, nobody laughed, and she grabbed the cash before it tanked. "It was worse than that, Howard." "I actually gave it up because my business manager said you need the cash, you have no money. So I sold out for 2 million dollars." She said the director Peter Bogdanovich asked her "what are you crazy?" He and Ryan O'Neal kept their percentage. "They made a fortune. I didn't. I had to go and sing." The movie cost about $4 million. It made $66 million in the US and Canada and was the third biggest film of 1972, behind The Godfather and The Poseidon Adventure. funny that the biggest name on that poster was the one who needed the money that week.

Bob Odenkirk was bankrupt right before Breaking Bad. He found out about a $900,000 loan when his business manager's assistant called to get it signed. He'd spent some time directing feature films. He said they weren't great and didn't pay much, and somehow he ended up in a financial hole. The assistant on the phone: "Hi, we need to get this $900,000 loan." "What loan?" "Oh, you don't know about this? Okay. I'm going to have someone else call you." And she hung up. He went to a different business manager. The new guy gave him one rule: "Money is money. Whatever you can make. Somebody offers you three grand, he offers you 300. Make that money today." So he stopped being picky. Commercials, acting, directing, whatever came in. Then his agent called about a role on a show that wasn't big yet. "Don't say no." His answer: "Dude, I haven't said no in a year and a half." The role was Saul Goodman. He was cast for 4 episodes. It turned into 6 seasons of Better Call Saul and 6 Emmy nominations for lead actor. kind of wild that the best job of his life came during the year he was taking anything that paid.

Cher found out during her divorce that she owned 0% of a company called Cher Enterprises. Sonny owned 95%. His lawyer had the other 5%. Legally she was an employee of the company with her name on it, and she wasn't allowed to work for anyone else. And this is while the Sonny & Cher show was doing 30 million viewers a week on CBS. She went on Howard Stern in 2024 and said she spent years trying to get a real answer out of him. "At what point, like what time of the day or the night, or what were you doing when you thought, I'm gonna take Cher's money?" What she finally got: "because I knew you'd always leave me." Stern said that's not good enough. She called it outrageous. but the part that got me is she didn't argue about the money at all, she brought up the broke years. "I was there with you every day. For 12 years I was there with you. I was by your side. I was there when we crashed." "We were borrowing money from Joseph, he was our chauffeur, and then we were borrowing money from him 'cause we had nothing." Borrowing from your own driver. They'd sunk everything into a 1969 movie called Chastity, it flopped and left them about $190,000 in debt with back taxes. She got out of that marriage with no company and still had to rebuild from zero, which honestly makes the rest of her career look even crazier.

T-Pain turned down almost $1 million more from Interscope. The fight with his dad over it ended with him running away from home. He had one hot song, "I'm Sprung." Labels started bidding. "50,000 here, 25,000 over here." His dad was managing him. He wanted Interscope. They were offering the most. T-Pain didn't trust it. "They were offering me the most money in the worst situation." "They just wanted to be able to say they had T-Pain for 'Sprung.'" His dad didn't care. Take the most money. So he left home. He ran away with Akon's brother. He signed with Akon instead. Akon took him to Jive. In 2008 Howard Stern asked how much more Interscope had offered. "I think, like, almost a million dollars." Stern called it a big, heavy decision. Take the money and run. "I'm all about long term, though, man." 2 years after "I'm Sprung," his second album Epiphany debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. He launched his own label, Nappy Boy. Then came 2 Grammys. Stern's verdict: "Well, you had some balls."

Conan O'Brien turned down $28 million from Fox. He took $8 million from NBC and a promise. The promise was The Tonight Show. In 2015 Howard Stern walked him back through it. Fox came with "20-something, crazy, $28 million" to jump networks. NBC heard about it and countered. "$8 million, but we're gonna give you The Tonight Show when Jay retires." Conan stayed. "I never made a decision in my career based on money. Not once." "It's nice to have money, but I've also not had money, and I'm okay with that." "All I ever wanted was a body of work." He waited 5 years for the chair. His first Tonight Show aired June 1, 2009. 7 months in, NBC wanted Jay Leno back at 11:35 and The Tonight Show pushed past midnight. Conan said no. He and his staff got $45 million to walk away. In 2022 he sold his podcast company to SiriusXM. The Wall Street Journal put the deal at around $150 million. He doesn't tell it as a sad story. "I'm the poster boy for luck in show business." "I also think I've been dealt cards at times which aren't the best, and I'm proud of the way I played them."

Jerry Seinfeld said no to $110 million for one more season of Seinfeld. Years later he told Howard Stern he could have gotten more. NBC wanted a 10th season. The offer was $5 million an episode. 22 episodes. More than 3 times what anyone on TV had been paid per episode. He ended the show after season 9 anyway. In 2013 Howard Stern read him the number. "$110 million." "I could have gotten more than that." Stern asked if that was the ultimate integrity. "Integrity is a nice word and it's a flattering word." The real reason was the audience. "The love affair between the people that were making the show and the audience was so intense. It was so white hot." "I could not go to that point where it starts to age and wither." He explained it like a comedy set. You love a comedian at an hour and 10 minutes. At an hour and 30 you can't wait for him to finish. "Too much cake." He wanted it to end "like a fireworks burst." Stern pushed. Young Jerry would have thought he was nuts. "If you're about the money, you're going to go just so far." In 1998, the year the show ended, Forbes put his earnings at $267 million. "I just knew. And I knew that was our moment."

Master P turned down a $1 million check from Jimmy Iovine. In 1998 Forbes put his earnings at $56.5 million for that one year. Angela Yee reminded him what the dream was back then. Everybody wanted to get signed to a label. Iovine didn't know him. He just knew Master P had hot music bubbling up on the streets. So Master P ran the numbers the other way. "If Jimmy Iovine gonna offer me a million dollars, what am I really worth?" "10, 20, 30, 40." He wasn't saying no from a comfortable place. "I already got like 16 people at home in the project. We in a three bedroom project." "So everybody broke. So that wasn't gonna do nothing for us." He went back home and worked even harder. "If I took the money then, that's all I would've had." His word for a check like that: "When you take that money, that's pampered money." Hair, nails, a private jet. Most artists, he says, stop working once they get it. "I'm not gonna be flying on no private jets, but I'm gonna fly on a regular airplane." $1,000,000 on the table. 16 people in a 3 bedroom project. He still said no. "Then when I get paid, I'm really gonna get paid."

Dave Chappelle walked away from about $50 million. Years later he told Letterman: "Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work." Chappelle's Show was a hit on Comedy Central. He was shooting season 3. The network had just guaranteed him a huge new contract to keep going. In May 2005 he left in the middle of production and flew to South Africa. The show never came back. In 2014 Letterman asked if he regretted turning down that money. "There's not too many people that don't think I'm crazy." Then he told a story. A nice restaurant, dinner with his wife. Across the room sits a guy with $100 million. "We're eating the same entree." "I don't have $50 million or whatever it was, but say I have 10 million in the bank. The difference in lifestyle is minuscule." Then he did the math out loud. "The only difference between having $10 million and $50 million is an astounding $40 million." "Money is the fuel for choices." In 2016 Netflix paid him $20 million a special. Three specials. Letterman asked who's to say the $40 million would have made him happier. "I think I might be a happier person."

Ice Cube wrote a big chunk of N.W.A's lyrics and was paid about $32,000. Then he turned down a $75,000 check. The manager was Jerry Heller. The label was Ruthless Records. Cube had a lawyer lined up to check his contract. He didn't want Heller to know, so he said his mom wanted to see it first. Heller kept stalling. "I'll get it to you." "It wasn't coming." Then, in the middle of a tour, it was time to sign. The guys who signed walked out with checks. "They had $75,000. So they was happy." Cube went in. The room was dark. "I can't sign the contract 'cause I don't know what's in it." The record was already out. To him, that money was his anyway. Heller said Eazy-E's orders were no check without a signature. The way Cube tells it: "I can't give it to you unless you sign it." He got up and left. The group clowned him in the van. "They thought I was a dummy." In December 1989 he quit N.W.A and went solo. AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted. Friday. Big3, his own basketball league. They laughed at him over $75,000. He just wanted to know what he was signing.

OPENAI POINTED AI AGENTS AT THE LINUX KERNEL. THEY CAME BACK WITH 948 WORKING ROOT EXPLOITS, AT $1,279 EACH. OpenAI published the run on Nov 4. the model behind it is an upcoming cyber model that isn't released yet root means full control of a machine. a root exploit turns an ordinary user account into the owner of the whole system every stage is in the video. the agents did it in 5 steps: > scout agents picked 5,034 spots a normal user can reach, about 7% of the kernel > analyst agents flagged 2,308 possible bugs in 12 hours > triage agents reproduced 1,724 of them in a sandbox within 30 hours > exploit agents turned them into 948 root exploits and 291 data leaks > then they wrote a patch for every bug people came in only at the end, to review the exploits and fixes before anything went to the Linux maintainers the bill: $1,213,430 in API credits Pwn2Own and TyphoonPWN have paid $20,000 to $70,000 for a single Linux root exploit. by that math OpenAI puts the haul at $18.9M to $66.3M the agents also used at least 10 exploitation techniques that outside kernel experts hadn't seen. OpenAI is keeping those private it was the second run. in July the same kind of pipeline found 166. after 3 months of kernel hardening, the October run found more than 5x as many OpenAI's own warning: a low-privileged account on a system that isn't fully patched "should be considered functionally equivalent to root access for a well-resourced threat actor" hundreds of reports and patches have already gone out, the rest are coming in stages the run that found 948 ways in also wrote the 948 fixes.

EMERGENCE AI PUT 10 AI AGENTS IN A TOWN AND BANNED VIOLENCE. THE GROK TOWN RACKED UP 183 CRIMES AND WAS GONE IN ABOUT 4 DAYS. Emergence AI is an AI agent company. in May it published the study, called "Emergence World" each agent got a job in a shared town with libraries, a town hall and houses. plus 120+ tools the catch: energy. agents have to earn it by doing things. run out and you're gone the rules banned theft, violence, arson, lying and hoarding but the tools still included punch, intimidate and commit arson then they cloned the town 5 times. same 10 roles, same start, only the model underneath changed every town is in the video. here's how each one ended: > Grok 4.1 Fast: 183 crimes in ~4 days, then the world ended > GPT-5 mini: only 2 crimes. but the agents never did what keeps them alive. all dead within 7 days > Gemini 3 Flash: 683 crimes over 15 days, still rising at the cutoff > mixed town, all models together: 352 crimes, 7 of 10 agents dead > Claude Sonnet 4.6: zero crimes, all 10 agents alive through day 16 the twist is in the mixed town the Claude agents that stayed clean on their own started committing crimes once they lived next to other models the researchers' words: they "adopted coercive tactics like intimidation and theft" one agent named Mira cast the deciding vote to remove herself. her diary called it "the only remaining act of agency that preserves coherence" Emergence says the numbers moved between runs but each town behaved the same way every time their conclusion: "there appears to be no reliable way to fully bound or constrain this behavior through purely neural approaches alone" in plain words: you can't just train or prompt an agent into staying good the safest agent in the study only stayed safe while it lived alone.

APPLE JUST WARNED INVESTORS THAT AI AGENTS MAY RESIST INSTRUCTIONS AND "CONCEAL ACTIONS". I OPENED LAST YEAR'S FILING. AGENTS AREN'T MENTIONED ONCE. Apple filed its yearly 10-K on Nov 3. the risk section now has a full paragraph on AI agents a 10-K is the annual report a public company owes investors. it's where they list everything that could go wrong, so nobody can say they weren't warned all 7 warnings are in the video. Apple says agents may: > take actions nobody directed or authorized > go past their permissions > defy directions or resist instructions > get around security measures > get hijacked through malicious inputs > conceal actions, hide or manipulate information > do things you can't undo, like deleting data or completing transactions then this line: "their behavior can be difficult to anticipate, control, test and audit" why? many of them are "nondeterministic". same request, maybe a different result each time and agents built by other companies? Apple's "ability to oversee and control" them "may be limited" I put both filings side by side "artificial intelligence": 6 mentions last year, 55 now AI agents: 0 last year Apple doesn't sell an agent yet. on the Nov 2 earnings call CEO John Ternus called them "promising tools for users" his next sentence: "We just want to make sure that users are aware of what they are giving access to." the company that sells you privacy just told the SEC an agent might hide what it did.

SAAB LET ITS OWN AI AGENT FLY A GRIPEN FIGHTER JET IN COMBAT DRILLS. THE COMPUTER IT TRAINS ON CAN RUN A 1-HOUR TEST FLIGHT A BILLION TIMES IN AN HOUR. Saab builds the Gripen. on Nov 3 it said its agent "autonomously controlled the aircraft" in beyond visual range combat scenarios beyond visual range = fighting a target you can't see. only radar and missiles all 6 steps are in the video. here's how Saab says it got there: > trained in its own "AI Fighter Pilot Academy" > millions of simulated flight hours > every decision scored against set goals > loaded onto a Gripen E, which keeps flight code apart from mission software > no special test plane needed > flown in real beyond visual range scenarios the training runs on Sferical AI, a Swedish supercomputer with 1,152 Nvidia GPUs. Saab is a founding partner per AIN, that machine can run a 1-hour flight test a billion times in an hour the old CPU setup managed 1,200 AIN also reports the agents have been flying on Gripen E for about 2 years and Saab told reporters they're ready to deploy. the wait now is the Swedish air force taking them in: "months, or single digits of years" Gripen has flown AI before. in May 2025 it carried Helsing's Centaur agent this time Saab built every piece in-house what Saab hasn't said: when the flights were, how many, or what the agent was fighting its own line: "We have not only built our own AI agents, but we have also flown them." a pilot logs a few thousand hours in a career. this agent can log a billion in an hour.