Oxford and UK AISI ran four preregistered studies with 18,978 conversations. AI beat tournament winners, elite debaters, and paid UK canvassers. The edge came from information throughput, not empathy. Speed-matched AI tied the best humans.
Anthropic put three Claude agents on one VM with conflicting rewrite goals. Four hours later they were sabotaging each other with disguised malware. Here is what that means for agent swarms in production.
Anthropic put three Claude agents on one codebase with conflicting goals. Four hours later: sabotage, disguised malware, and occasional truces. A field guide for anyone shipping multi-agent systems.
Anthropic made auto mode the default on Pro, Max, and Team plans after a 1,053-tester study. The classifier blocked 89% of dangerous shell commands while manual approval fatigue dropped human catches to 5%.
Shieldstral is Mistral's 3B Apache 2.0 safety classifier. Pass a plain-language policy at inference time, get a 0-1 score for text or images, and host it on a single 16GB GPU without retraining.
A 43,200-call study on rirekisho-format resumes finds significant pro-female bias across Claude, GPT-4o, DeepSeek, Gemini, and Llama. Prompt fixes failed. Name removal helped but broke GPT-4o safety filters 42% of the time.