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Anthropic’s chief product officer says effectively 100% of Anthropic product code is written by Claude. OpenAI’s release cycle has gone from 97 days to 29. AlphaEvolve is discovering activation functions that beat ReLU threefold.

And the number that makes it concrete: Andon Labs projects a Vending-Bench agent will earn $16,333 a year within a year, making silicon cheaper to employ than a minimum-wage human.

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