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How Anthropic Works in 2026 & the Most Important Mech Interp Paper of the Year

At Anthropic, AI agent hours now outnumber employee hours six to one. In research teams it's 19 to one. The bottleneck is human attention.

Shimin calls Nick Cammarata's "Neural Networks Are Already Clean" the most important mech interp paper of the year. Plus a bugged OpenAI conference room (the hardware kind).

Hosts: Shimin Zhang and Dan Lasky. Rahul is out this week.

▸ News: Meta's Muse Spark Open — 816B parameters (42B active), a 1M-token context, and it runs on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios. It scores 39 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Qwen3.8, Kimi K3, and GLM-5.3 score higher…

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