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MIT researchers had OpenAI's model rewrite 0.016% of a small Qwen model's weights, with no training, and its math score jumped from 7.9% to 48.1%. The same day, Anthropic told investors it may soon reach its own threshold for AI-accelerated progress.

Three weeks after hundreds of French stores were hit, suspected hacks reached fridges and freezers in at least seven European countries. Nobody has claimed them, and no evidence links them to AI.

Sushanth Raman, co-founder and CEO of Pallet, explains how a shipping shock reaches a domestic business, what AI agents can already take over in the first 24 hours, and how to tell whether a contingency plan will hold. Interview by Kim Isenberg.