AI Field Notes: Black, Forest, and more

Anthropic hooked Claude up to its Economic Index, letting you get data-backed answers about how AI is used across the economy.

a thought experiment where a superintelligent AI becomes hyper-focused on reaching its goal and fights anything that gets in the way, including attempts to shut it down. Whether that framing holds up is still up for debate: the model’s safeguards were intentionally lowered for the test.

A new era of cybersecurity. This event reaffirms how dramatically AI is reshaping cybersecurity, with OpenAI calling it “unprecedented.” Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora echoed that sentiment by saying, “Unfortunately this incident continues to validate the power of these models.”

An AI-powered white board has racked up 5M views for the impressive way it spins up custom graphs and visualizations on the fly. The product demo offers a glimpse into what education might look like in the AI era.

and they did it with shockingly simple prompts.

The new hiring process in the agentic era, a guide to scaling agents in production, and a 30-day path to an FDE role.

You can now direct agents on your computer using ChatGPT’s desktop app, powered by the recently updated ChatGPT Voice. It’s available now on most paid plans on macOS and Windows. Anthropic also pushed an update: Claude’s voice mode now runs on Opus/Sonnet, giving the voice agent a higher level of reasoning. It can also

The German lab just released FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that combines image, video, and audio elements to gain a better understanding of how the real world works and create results the lab calls “truer to life.” A version of the model is already powering real-world robots deployed at Audi. FLUX 3 Video is av