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McKinsey says 25,000 of its 60,000 ’employees’ are now AI agents, as consultancies restructure around human-AI teams and brace white-collar workers for upheaval.
Red-team startup CodeWall says its autonomous AI agent gained full read-write access to McKinsey’s Lilli platform in two hours — a preview of machine-speed attacks on corporate AI.
New METR benchmarks put Claude Opus 4.6 at a 14.5-hour task horizon, with AI capability now doubling roughly every four months.
A non-developer built a production-grade autonomous trading system in a day using Claude Code — exposing how thousands of identical AI models could converge and destabilise global markets faster than regulators can react.
Claude Opus 4.6’s leap in long-context retrieval let it triage, route and assign work across a 50-person engineering org — the first sign AI agents can manage people, not just write code.
Sandia National Laboratories is testing NextSilicon’s reconfigurable accelerator, a chip that rewires itself to the software it runs, promising big power savings over Nvidia GPUs without costly code rewrites.
From corporate stablecoins to programmable CBDCs and AI-driven money, this is a look at how currency could soon move faster than regulators and slip beyond purely human control.
A Korean research team has turned industrial sulfur waste into recyclable, self-moving soft robots using a new 4D printing method, pointing to a closed-loop future for advanced materials.
Cloudflare secures a fifth of the internet using a wall of 100 lava lamps, whose ever-shifting blobs generate the true randomness that strong encryption keys depend on.
World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture tied to Donald Trump, is expanding into debit cards, tokenised commodities and its USD1 stablecoin as it pushes to extend dollar influence on-chain.
Security researchers have caught hackers using large language models to weaponise hijacked AI infrastructure, turning compromised servers into a self-propagating botnet that mines crypto and launches attacks.
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