SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK.

The lead investor, Mr. Tanaka, tilted his head. "Is that… a cat playing jazz?"

Mr. Tanaka smiled. "We invest. But only if you send us a recording of that cat."

At 10:00 AM sharp, Priya smiled at the screen. "Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity to present—"

It was. And Mochi got a lifetime supply of tuna.

Then she saw it: a tiny footnote on a Google Help page last updated 17 minutes ago. "We are aware of an issue where the noise cancellation toggle may disappear for some users on enterprise accounts with certain hardware acceleration flags enabled. Fix in progress. Estimated rollout: 3-4 weeks."