AI Connections

Anthropic's fund figures

5% of shares · 2% per 50% rise · $200 million · roughly 20%

Anthropic says it commits 5% now, may add 2% per 50% value rise, already put $200 million toward labor impacts, and with past pledges roughly 20% of shares go to the public good.

From the Drop: Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund

Pieces of the Character.AI deal

bankruptcy · $5.5 million · $12.5 million · license auction

Wired reports Disney paid $5.5 million up front and would pay $12.5 million more if it wins the license auction run through the bankruptcy.

From the Drop: Wired: Disney's Character.AI deal is built to leave legal liabilities behind

Agent benchmarks in this Drop

BizBench · MS-Eval · GatewayBench · Into the Unknown

Four preprints test agents on payments tasks, sub-agent delegation, MCP gateways and open science problems.

From the Drop: BizBench preprint: Claude Opus 5 hits 64.0% strict success on payments-company tasks · Preprint: MS-Eval finds sub-agent delegation often raises cost with uneven payoff · GatewayBench preprint tests seven MCP gateways on 524 tasks with 11,118 real tools · Preprint: none of 135 agent-written science follow-ups met every condition

Claude's island experiment

Eko · juggling · basketball · 30 hours

MIT Technology Review says Claude Opus 4.7 copies nicknamed Eko spent 30 hours alone on a virtual island and invented games like basketball and juggling.

From the Drop: MIT TR: Claude agents left alone on a virtual island for 30 hours began to play