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.

The exciting Tokyo Colony No. 1 fights are about to commence.

WASHINGTON—Saying the millions of documents had restored a pleasure they lost long ago, Americans nationwide said Thursday that the recently released trove of emails connected with disgraced financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had reignited their love of reading. “I didn’t realize how much I missed the simple joy of losing myself in words until these […]

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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 …