Systems of Record aren’t going anywhere but … but … they are also extremely expensive databases as well. Way too expensive for agents. The cost per record, per GB, per anything in most Systems of Record is 100x-1000x-10,000x more than Postgres, Databricks, etc. And agents create, consume, touch and manage massive amounts of data. Far more than humans. So while classic Systems of Record aren’t going away, more and more of the data agents activate and use will be outside of them. Systems of Record’s own databases are just way too expensive, slow, and complex for most agentic data.

All systems are looking good, and weather is favorable for liftoff. Propellant load is about to begin for Falcon 9’s launch of the USSF-385 mission from California →

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AI systems are getting more powerful, and they're increasingly being used to build the next version of themselves. We want to illuminate that progress for the public. Today, we're sharing three measurements that help track AI development: 1. How much AI R&D is done by AI. 2. How well AI agents are overseen. 3. How compute is allocated. We provide a snapshot of these metrics from inside Anthropic. Any frontier developer could publish the same measures, and third parties could verify them. As the world considers pacing the frontier, we should do everything possible to minimize the gap between what frontier labs know and what the public knows. This means better measuring the development of AI, publishing our findings, and giving society an opportunity to decide how to use this information. Read the full post and methodology:

All systems are looking good, and weather is 95% favorable for liftoff. Propellant load is about to begin for Falcon 9’s launch of the USSF-259 mission from California →

All systems are looking good, and weather is 70% favorable for liftoff. Propellant load is about to begin for Falcon 9’s launch of the USSF-153 mission from California →

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