Anthropic:
Anthropic details how it used 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 agents to build a Rust-based 100,000-line C compiler, incurring ~$20K in API costs over 2,000 sessions  —  We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler, and then (mostly) walked away.  Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development.

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:
How Anthropic's ruthless efficiency comes in part from its mission-obsessed culture, which eliminates the friction that tends to slow things down at Big Tech  —  Silicon Valley's most ideologically driven company may have become its most commercially dangerous.

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Bloomberg:
Why this is the worst crypto winter ever: AI crowds out crypto for mindshare and power grid access, crypto is mainstream, gold beats BTC as a safe haven, more  —  Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe.  Sometimes it's us …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's “deeply distraught” with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers  —  Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook told employees that he's “deeply distraught” with the US's current approach …