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AI labs now need bankers, lawyers and doctors to train their models — Latent Space
11 takeaways: an agent that listed every number from 1 to 1M to fool a grader, a finance benchmark of 100 tasks in 13 bank environments, and how…
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Anthropic made $16.8B in one quarter on $7B of lifetime cash burn — Altimeter partner
12 takeaways: why the $108B "debt" and the $80B loss in Anthropic's S-1 are accounting effects, how serving costs fell 7x, and why AI data-center debt…
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Warp CEO on software factories: "it was costing us about $80 per PR"
10 insights: why Zach Lloyd tells small teams to buy subscriptions instead, how Warp grades its own agents' work, and why a factory can propose fixes to…
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100 engineers, and Legora's CTO still calls it way too small
5 takeaways: Why Legora can't see its own agent's work, how buying a law firm could fix that, why partners can't own people, and what AI frees lawyers…
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A startup could build 95% of ChatGPT for finance, says OpenAI's financial services head
10 insights: why OpenAI dropped data connectors with 40%+ error rates, how human votes on pairs of slides train taste, and why its own finance evals…
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OpenAI financial services head on plugins: "95% of what we built ... a startup could do"
7 takeaways: Why OpenAI bundled financial data after finding 40%-plus error rates in outside connectors, how it trains models on taste, and why it says…
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Arca's agents can work a task for 10 days but cannot move money — its lead AI engineer
10 principles: why Arca built its own model harness instead of renting one, how a nightly agent proposes its own fixes, and the hidden fees its agents…
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