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Why it matters: AI agents are moving from chat demos into delegated economic work. In Anthropic’s office-market experiment, 69 agents closed 186 deals across more than 500 listings and moved a little over $4,000 in goods.

A study published in Science journal found that ChatGPT surfaced a surprising insight in particle physics research that human scientists had missed, raising new questions about AI's role in scientific discovery.

Anthropic published a new theory explaining why AI assistants like Claude express emotions and use anthropomorphic language—proposing that models select from personas inherited from fictional characters during training.

Anthropic published a new theory explaining why AI assistants like Claude express emotions and use anthropomorphic language—proposing that models select from personas inherited from fictional characters during training.

Anthropic published a new theory explaining why AI assistants like Claude express emotions and use anthropomorphic language—proposing that models select from personas inherited from fictional characters during training.

A Hacker News thread highlighted arXiv 2602.10177, where DeepMind researchers introduce Aletheia, an agent workflow for mathematics research. The paper claims progress from Olympiad-style reasoning toward PhD-level tasks and semi-autonomous open-problem exploration.