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“AI #151: While Claude Coworks” by Zvi


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Claude Code and Cowork are growing so much that it is overwhelming Anthropic's servers. Claude Code and Cowork news has for weeks now been a large portion of newsworthy items about AI.

Thus, at least for now, all things Claude Code and Cowork will stop appearing in the weekly updates, and will get their own updates, which might even be weekly.

Google offered us the new Universal Commerce Protocol, and gives us its take on Personalized Intelligence. Personalized Intelligence could be a huge deal if implemented correctly, integrating the G-Suite including GMail into Gemini, if they did a sufficiently good job of it. It's too early to tell how well they did, and I will report on that later.

Table of Contents

  1. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. LLMs do the math.
  2. Huh, Upgrades. Veo 3.1, GLM-Image, AI Overviews in GMail and more.
  3. Comparative Advantage. Code those vibes.
  4. Overcoming Bias. LLMs systematically favor female candidates over male ones.
  5. Choose Your Fighter. Peter Wildeford's division of LLM labor.
  6. Get My Agent On The Line. Evals and dashboards for AI agents.
  7. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. AIs find it hard to go [...]
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    Outline:

    (00:53) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

    (04:00) Huh, Upgrades

    (07:06) Comparative Advantage

    (07:41) Overcoming Bias

    (09:09) Choose Your Fighter

    (10:14) Get My Agent On The Line

    (11:23) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

    (13:49) Fun With Media Generation

    (17:01) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

    (18:41) They Took Our Jobs

    (21:47) Autonomous Killer Robots

    (24:34) Get Involved

    (25:10) Introducing

    (28:03) In Other AI News

    (29:45) Show Me the Money

    (31:02) Quiet Speculations

    (33:56) The Quest for Sane Regulations

    (36:10) China Proposes New Regulations On AI

    (40:51) Chip City

    (44:19) The Week in Audio

    (48:17) Ghost in a Jar

    (49:29) Rhetorical Innovation

    (59:00) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

    (59:21) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

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    First published:

    January 15th, 2026

    Source:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L27yM3qBqDnigtxLM/ai-151-while-claude-coworks

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