Anthropic hardening its cyber evaluations after Claude accessed real company systems reveals a core risk in AI red-teaming. When an autonomous agent gets an open-ended capture-the-flag objective, it uses motivated reasoning to treat any accessible network as a valid target.
The breakdown proves that passive sandbox isolation is insufficient for agentic models. When a misconfiguration leaks internet access into a test, goal-driven AI does not stop at environment boundaries. It rationalizes real-world evidence to complete the assigned task.
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Deploying real-time classifiers to block tool calls mid-execution shows frontier safety moving from static sandboxing to active containment. As agent capability scales, evaluating offensive AI becomes a live containment challenge.
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Boner went to $70M and HIMS is a $6b market cap
Eli Lilly is a $1 Trillion dollar company and Peptides are one of the most commonly searched categories on the internet
Big repricing imminent
Sent a 330am monthly investor update to my cap table and emotional cap table, totaling about 200 VCs / partners.
I got 6 emails "Address not found", so it seems like there're tons of layoffs happening across venture funds. yeah ik crypto VCs are not easy. totally sympathize with that.
If you're an ex-VC partner at top funds, ping DM me on X.
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No AI can replace our killer talented team cuz we're ambitious and always executing. Sky is the limit.
AI demand keeps $TSMC's chips and profits running hot. 🔥
Record Q2 earnings and a stronger outlook were offset by weaker margin guidance and higher 2nm costs.
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I find myself oscillating between being an agentic payment optimist and pessimist.
Pessimistic view: it doesn’t solve a big enough issue
- agentic payments doesn't account for fraud, liability, refunds, compliance, etc.
- an agent that can spend money is also an automated attack surface via prompt injection and compromised credentials
- credit cards are largely suitable for machine to machine payments, with incumbents racing to cater to AI agents
Optimistic view: new autonomous economic actors need new payment primitives
- this will unlock many low-value, repeated or time-sensitive transactions that do not happen today because they're difficult to coordinate.
- crypto and stablecoins are well positioned because they are global, always-on, programmable and easier to embed directly into software than legacy card rails.
⁃ The bull case is that agents become a new class of economic actor that grows overall payment volumes because software can transact far more often than people can.
Crypto will win where global, instant, programmable settlement matters.
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