Anthropic: AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
December 1, 2025 ANTHROPIC AI models are increasingly good at cyber tasks, as we’ve written about before. But what is the economic impact of these capabilities? In a recent MATS and Anthropic Fellows project, our scholars investigated this question by evaluating AI agents’ ability to exploit smart contracts on Smart CONtracts Exploitation benchmark (SCONE-bench)—a new benchmark they built comprising […]
Losing Confidence
Cast your mind back to when you learned to drive, ride a bike, speak a foreign language, perform a tracheostomy, or acquire any other skill. Wasn’t confidence the key to your success? Whatever we do in life, confidence is always critical. If you run a business, one of the metrics that are likely to be […]
Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring 2026, Apple announced today. Giannandrea will serve as an advisor between now and 2026, with former Microsoft AI researcher Amar Subramanya set to take over as vice president of AI. Subramanya will report to Apple engineering chief Craig Federighi, and […]
Why Am I Paying $40k for the Birth of My Child?
November 30, 2025 • 16 minutes to read Life Startups The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence. I had never heard of Michael Green before his now-infamous essay “Part 1: My Life Is a Lie – How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America” went extremely viral on X. Go read it. The short […]
Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026
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How to Attend Meetings – Internal guidelines from the New York Times
Title: Decisions on Important Projects Meeting Host: Important Person Duration: 60 minutes Guest list: 8 guests Recurrence: None Description: Our team would like to decide whether to move forward with 2 Important Projects�1:00pm-1:30pm: Project A (You are only needed for this part of the conversation)�Context: … What we need: …�Timing: … 1:30pm-2:00pm: Project B (You […]
Sycophancy is the first LLM “dark pattern”
People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was written by someone else, to counteract the model’s natural desire to shower praise on the user. With the latest GPT-4o update, this tendency has been turned up […]
Vanity Activities
A few weeks ago, I came across a ~4,000-word guide to something called “credit card churning”. The essay had gone viral. Plenty of people loved the piece. The writer seemed to care a lot. If you aren’t familiar, credit card churning is a term used to describe people who fully optimize their credit cards to […]
Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027
Intel could supply Apple’s lowest-end M chips by 2027, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts. Intel could supply Apple’s lowest-end M chips by 2027, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts. by Andrew J. Hawkins Nov 28, 2025, 7:25 PM UTC Andrew J. Hawkins is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public […]
High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
The job market drives housing demand, but the type of jobs created or lost impacts the type of housing. High-income sectors—Information, Professional Services, and Financial Activities—are shrinking across most major metros. Workers in these industries drive for-sale housing demand more than rental demand. Nationally, high-income sector employment remained flat YOY in August, well below its […]