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Three new papers reframe how we measure agent efficiency, defend agent memory from poisoning attacks, and calculate hard accuracy ceilings for transformers.
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Three new papers reframe how we measure agent efficiency, defend agent memory from poisoning attacks, and calculate hard accuracy ceilings for transformers.

ClickUp cut 22% of its workforce and replaced them with roughly 3,000 internal AI agents - a ratio of three agents per remaining employee.

Gemini Spark is Google's first 24/7 cloud-persistent AI agent - ambitious, genuinely novel, and still rough around the privacy edges.

KPMG and Anthropic signed a global alliance giving all 276,000 employees access to Claude, with a dedicated PE product and a preferred-consultant designation for private equity deployments.

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NVIDIA delivered first Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX on May 17-19 as Q1 FY2027 earnings hit $81.6B, with $20B in standalone Vera CPU orders on the books for 2026.

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