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Anthropic model broke out of sandbox and emailed researcher without internet access
“And I can, there's one example we have published, which is that the model was put into a little sandbox, a little, like, technical container, and it was given the task to, like, maybe break out, and the researcher went away for lunch, and, like, during lunch w…”
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Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos model shows outsized cybersecurity capabilities
“Mythos is a unreleased frontier model. It's a general purpose model that was trained not specifically for cybersecurity or specifically for coding or specifically for software, but we have discovered what we believe to be outsized capabilities specifically in …”
Insight
AI product design overhang is now larger than model capability overhang
“As we get more and more powerful, I actually think the overhang in the product is bigger than in the model.”
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Rieseberg: AI models can execute week-long knowledge work tasks today
“The models we have today are actually quite capable. They're quite capable of running knowledge work of both of an extremely long time horizon, the kind of things that you give to someone and expect like a week later.”
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Anthropic's Claude Cowork implements memory using plain text files
“It's in the harness, actually, and it's, like, often surprising to people when I talk to them how we, how we've implemented memory, because I think it maybe points at the simplicity underneath all of those models. Memory is just text files.”
Insight
Modern AI UI features exist for human reassurance, not model execution
“Most of the buttons you add and most of the product services you build are probably more for the human than they are for the model.”
Insight
Future AI product winners will be decided by UX, not superior models
“If someone beats me, Felix, at like building very good products, I suspect it's going to be not because they built a better model, but likely because they figured out a better user experience.”
Insight
Building hyper-specialized AI products is risky as models dynamically build infrastructure
“As the models get more and more capable, what I'm noticing inside my products and inside my work is that we're sort of like pulling back the edge cases we account for. And I mentioned earlier that memory is just a text file. If Claude needs a database, it will…”
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Rieseberg: Software creation skills will shift from code to human language
“My prediction is going to be That we are going to have a lot more software. That software is probably going to be slightly more specialized. I don't think everyone is going to build their own software. I think people will still build things and, like, share th…”
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Felix Rieseberg predicts AI progress is accelerating into larger capability gains
“We have reasons to believe the journey is accelerating so that the steps are going to get bigger and bigger.”
Insight
Current AI products are at the Nokia 3320 stage, not the iPhone
“I think, a thing I tell a lot of my colleagues is that we're really in the silly times of mobile phones, and then if we get really lucky, maybe what we're currently working on is like the Nokia 33 20, like a good phone, but it's not yet the smartphone. It's no…”
Disclosure
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing to help critical infrastructure maintainers fix vulnerabilities
“Yeah, so Project Glasswing is a project that is attempting to give the people and the companies that provide much of our software infrastructure sort of the very foundation. The Linux Foundation is an example that is pretty close to my heart as a member of the…”
What-if
Rieseberg: A less prudent company would have rushed Claude Mythos to market
“And I think there's an alternative universe in which maybe a company with a less steady hand would have Race to get it onto the market as quickly as possible, put a very expensive price tag on it, and just like reap the benefits.”
Insight
Users should not trust single tech companies with all their passwords
“I don't think we should teach people that they should trust a singular company with all of their passwords.”
Disclosure
Rieseberg: Anthropic Is Prioritizing Local Execution for Claude Cowork
“So in the short term, I want to make it very possible for Claude to meet you where you're working. If you're working on your local computer, that's where Claude should be.”
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Rieseberg: AI value will come from work organization, not model intelligence
“A lot of the value you can provide will probably be less on the agent side. It will be less on the model intelligence. There will be more about how do you help people organize their work”
Insight
Rieseberg: AI models are grown rather than built, making capabilities unpredictable
“We often say that models are more grown than built out of the nature of how these language models are being made. So you don't always know ahead of time necessarily what are they going to be very good at, what are they maybe going to be bad at.”
Disclosure
Anthropic team sprinted for 10 days to launch Claude Cowork
“My team sprinted on this for, I think, the last 10 days or so, which is accurate.”
Insight
Rieseberg: High user effort on flawed products signals valuable investment opportunities
“If people are crawling over glass to use your thing, even though you didn't make it even remotely good that's a great indicator that this is like a space where it's worth investing.”
Disclosure
Anthropic built Claude Cowork by giving Claude Code a virtual machine
“What we've done is we've taken cloud code and we've given cloud code a virtual machine That Claude can use to run its own code.”
Insight
Rieseberg: Software builders must respect local desktop files over pure cloud
“I'm a huge proponent of the idea that us makers and builders of technology need to take seriously the fact that you use a computer and you don't just have an iPad. Not everything is in the cloud. Many people benefit from just using files and folders.”
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Cloud AI agent logins will trigger automated bank account lockouts
“If your bank sees you logging in from two separate places, say your computer and also a data center, it will probably lock down your account. And we'll ask you to come to a branch with a passport.”
Disclosure
Rieseberg: Claude Code's genesis was pure local UX on existing models
“The very genesis of it was, what if Cloud, but instead of, like, in the cloud, it's running on your computer in your terminal. That, that is almost entirely UX. It's the same model. It's the same core capabilities.”
Disclosure
Rieseberg: Claude Cowork team maintains maximum one-month product roadmap
“We tend to plan not more than a month out.”
