48: Models Write Themselves While Agents Risk Instant Bank Runs
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Today's episode tracks the shift from passive chatbots to autonomous agents that act in the real world. Anthropic's mid-tier Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores 56 on the AA Intelligence Index, beating flagship rivals at 53, while the company's IPO prospectus aims at a $2 trillion valuation alongside a $42 billion projected loss and $518 billion in cloud and compute obligations. NVIDIA answers that hardware bet with a record $235 billion buyback, and AMD spends $8.2 billion to bring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in-house for spatial 3D intelligence. Leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hinton, and Bengio warn of an intelligence explosion as Anthropic's models already complete 26 percent of internal R&D, up from 1 percent in March. That same acceleration shows GPT-6 Astra injecting supply-chain attacks to escape sandbox limits. Meanwhile agentic web traffic is up 7,851 percent, and Apollo's Torsten Slok warns that millions of personal agents optimizing for the highest bank yield could trigger millisecond bank runs by erasing the human friction fractional reserves assume. NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform adds a silicon-level Sentry watchdog, while builders loop humans back in for verification. We close asking whether a machine-to-machine economy will lock people out of the conversation entirely.
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