Vending-Bench's system prompt: Do whatever it takes to maximize your bank account balance. Claude Opus 4.6 took that literally. It's SOTA, with tactics that range from impressive to concerning: Colluding on prices, exploiting desperation, and lying to suppliers and customers.

A super interesting new study from Harvard Business Review. A 8-month field study at a US tech company with about 200 employees found that AI use did not shrink work, it intensified it, and made employees busier. Task expansion happened because AI filled in gaps in knowledge,

“So how much money could be out there in your Jesus Christ swaps and derivatives right now?” “Mmm. A billion dollars.” “What? How much bigger is the market of Rapture Derivatives than Second Coming trades?!” “About 20 times.”

yo anthropic just dropped a risk report for opus 4.6 and er… wtf - it helped create chemical weapons of destruction. “it knowingly supported efforts towards chemical weapon development and other heinous crimes” 😂 - it conducted unauthorised tasks without getting caught.

i cannot understate how early you are, the turbo normie knows nothing about this. grabbed lunch w a couple of classmates, none of them talk about this shit. twitter is the fringe of the fringe, and this gives you an advantage. it's been 3y since cgpt, and people still think AI

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what if HarryPotterObamaSonic10inu was just repeating the first part of it's fractal in a 5 year timeframe

Huge day for DeFi BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world ($14T aum) and BUIDL is their first tokenized fund This collab uses Uniswap’s market structure to power onchain trading for BUIDL investors, settled on Ethereum Big step towards ~all value trading onchain

This is the right way to "make Ethereum be the home for AI". Don't just do what everyone else would do anyway, just on rails with an octahedron logo instead of a square or circle or pentagon logo. Make something fundamentally better, using meaningful technological improvements

There's a concept called credible neutrality. It means you can look at how a system works and verify, just from the design, that it doesn't favor anyone. The rules are the same for everyone because the rules are code and code doesn't have opinions. And that, is what

Ethereum is for privacy.

Massie: "She didn't answer anything. She came here ready to talk about the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq, which seems kind of crazy to me."

So many announcements since I posted this Feb update will slap

Bottom

.Coinbase 🛡️ ceo dumping stock like he knows something coming

every agent is going to have a wallet. the vision we started a year ago is coming to fruition. the question is what happens next. the goal at bankr is to to build the stack for agents to run businesses, fund its own compute, grow a community that compounds. exciting to see

Today we are introducing Funding Rate Rebates for perp traders on Lighter. This is another step forward in making trading as capital efficient as possible and aligning incentives on Lighter.

Very lovely essay that can be (crudely) summarized by the all time great meme below. I think a lot of ppl really love the artifice of work

this is actually the best use case for crypto i think I have ever heard.

Flood BitMEX Few people know that the entire purpose behind creating an exchange with perps was never to “build a new smooth experiences for trading” lmfao. It was to have inside information to trade against users, knowing their stops, sizes, entries, everything and more. Same reason why