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Back to EpisodesWhen your AI has a brokerage account, nobody is ready for what comes next.
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Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 29, 2026
When your AI has a brokerage account, nobody is ready for what comes next.
Anthropic dropped Opus 4.8 yesterday, with benchmarks that beat GPT-5.5, and a research preview that lets it run hundreds of parallel sub-agents at once. AI agents now have wallets and can trade your stocks. IBM tested every major AI model on real enterprise IT work, and none of them cracked 50%. OpenAI put $250 million on the table for workers being displaced by the technology it's building. And two chip companies you've probably never thought about just hit $1 trillion each. Plus: what happens to academic research when 400 papers can be written in 12 hours.
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