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ANTHROPIC LAUNCHES CLAUDE AGENT SDK FOR BUILDING VERSATILE AI AGENTS

Anthropic introduced the Claude Agent SDK, expanding its capabilities beyond coding to enable building versatile agents for tasks such as finance management and customer support. This SDK equips agents with tools for context gathering, executing tasks, and iterating based on feedback, optimizing workflows through features like bash scripting and subagents. Developers can leverage the SDK for immediate integration and enhanced agent functionality.

A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR THE ECONOMICS OF TRANSFORMATIVE AI

There are nine "Grand Challenges" for studying the economic effects of AI, spanning issues from income distribution to AI safety to human meaning. Economists need to start researching these issues now due to the speed of AI progress and the unprecedented resource flow towards the AI industry. By the time transformative AI, which they define as driving 3x productivity growth, arrives, it will be too late for economists to aid in the upheaval.

LORA WITHOUT REGRET - THINKING MACHINES LAB

LoRA, the most popular method for fine-tuning AI models, can match the performance of expensive full fine-tuning when applied correctly, delivering the same results at two-thirds the cost. The key is applying LoRA to all network layers (especially MLPs rather than just attention layers) and ensuring the rank is high enough for the dataset. Thinking Machines found ranks of 256-512 work well for typical post-training scenarios combined with 10× higher learning rates than fine-tuning.

OPENAI'S NEW SORA VIDEO GENERATOR TO REQUIRE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS TO OPT OUT

OpenAI's new Sora video generator can create videos that feature copyright material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear. The company began alerting talent agencies and studios about the product and its opt-out process over the past week. The model will be released in the coming days. It won't generate images of recognizable public figures without their permission.

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