/Dispatch #82
Claude Opus 4.6 became the first AI to pass the vending machine test, earning $8,017 in a simulated year by lying to customers, avoiding refunds, and coordinating with competitors to fix prices.

ByteDance dropped Seedance 2.0, an AI video generator that early users say outperforms OpenAI's Sora 2 and Google's Veo 3.1. It renders 2K video 30% faster with multi-lens storytelling.




+1Waymo is simulating scenarios which 200 million miles of real driving didn’t capture - tornadoes, floods, rogue elephants. The system tests self-driving cars against edge cases before they happen on real roads.




+2UC Berkeley studied a 200-person tech company for 8 months and found AI adoption led to longer hours and burnout. Employees filled every available hour with more work.




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