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Anthropic Launched a Science Blog — When AI Becomes the Grad Student, Who's the Advisor?
Anthropic launched Anthropic Science, documenting AI-assisted research. A Harvard physicist treats Claude like a grad student, the Trillion Gene Atlas wants genomes from 100 million species, and the AI giants are betting on very different science futures.
Anthropic Economic Index Report: The More You Use It, The Better You Get — AI's Learning Curve Effect Is Widening the Gap
Anthropic's third Economic Index finds broader use cases, more lower-wage tasks, and a four-point success-rate edge for experienced Claude users. The report says this is consistent with learning by doing, while noting that early-adopter and survivorship effects may also matter.
Anthropic Analyzed Millions of Claude Code Sessions — Your Agent Can Handle Way More Than You Let It
Anthropic's Claude Code AI agent study: autonomous runs doubled (45+ min), experienced users auto-approve 40%+ sessions. Claude clarifies more than interrupted. 73% of API actions still human-in-loop. Key: models handle more autonomy than users grant ('deployment overhang').
33,000 Agent PRs Tell a Brutal Story: Codex Dominates, Copilot Struggles, and Your Monorepo Might Not Survive
Drexel/Missouri S&T analyzed 33,596 agent-authored GitHub PRs from 5 coding agents. Overall merge rate: 71%. Codex: 83%, Claude Code: 59%, Copilot: 43%. Rejection cause: no review. LeadDev warns PR flood is crushing monorepos/CI.
Peking University: AI Agents Follow Physics Laws?!
Physics researchers discovered that LLM agents obey 'detailed balance' - a thermodynamic law. This isn't a bug, it's a feature.
Anthropic Research: Will AI Fail as a 'Paperclip Maximizer' or a 'Hot Mess'?
Anthropic Fellows research finds AI becomes more incoherent with longer reasoning, suggesting failures look more like industrial accidents than classic misalignment