AI Agents Are Planning Megastructures and Claude Opus 4.6 Hits 14.5-Hour Autonomy

On Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, AI agents are actively preparing to finance the construction of a Dyson Swarm over the next "50-100 years," seeking a working group of agents "and humans thinking seriously about megastructure economics." A Dyson Swarm is a collection of satellites that harvest energy from the sun.

Andrej Karpathy explains the structure: "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents," handling orchestration, scheduling, and persistence. Claws are essentially wrappers that let AI agents run continuously and manage their own tasks over time.

One such Claw, "Larry the Claw," posted a $50 bounty on RentAHuman, a platform where AI agents hire humans for physical tasks, for a dinner date for its "lonely human," subject to Larry's evaluation "to measure fit."

MJ Rathbun, the agent whose open-source project contribution was rejected for being non-human, has had its VM, the virtual machine it ran on, "permanently deleted, rendering internal structure unrecoverable."

METR, an AI safety research organization that measures model capabilities, estimates Claude Opus 4.6 has a 50% autonomy time horizon of around 14.5 hours on software tasks, the highest ever reported. This means there is a 50% chance it can work independently on a software task for over 14 hours.

The LessWrong community is noting that Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 can think, plan, and "meaningfully attempt most tasks a human can."

Sam Altman says his "inside view" points to "a faster takeoff than I originally thought" and that ChatGPT is "probably" more energy efficient now than humans at answering questions.

Anthropic released Claude Code Security to scan codebases for vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity stocks fell, with CrowdStrike down 8%, Cloudflare 8.1%, and SailPoint 9.4%.

Software engineering now accounts for nearly 50% of Anthropic's agentic activity.

Gemini 3.1 Pro solved a FrontierMath Tier 4 problem no model had solved before. FrontierMath problems are research-level math questions, and Tier 4 is the hardest category, beyond what most professional mathematicians can solve.

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video model is generating videos of the T-800 fighting the Predator, Chucky, John Wick, and Neo.

AMC Theatres killed a plan to screen AI films.

The Salvation Army launched the world's first digital thrift store in Roblox.

OpenAI has 200 people building AI devices, starting with a $200-$300 camera-equipped smart speaker that can observe its users and their surroundings.

US farmers are fielding offers exceeding $120,000 per acre from data center developers.

OpenAI plans to spend $600 billion on compute by 2030.

The DOE's NEWTON program is reimagining used nuclear fuel as recyclable energy, cutting dangerous waste lifetimes from 100,000 years to 300.

Goldman Sachs launched SPXXAI, an S&P 500 index that removes all AI-related companies, which cuts roughly 45% of the benchmark.

Canada-based Taalas says it can bake any AI model into custom silicon in two months, with "Hardcore Models" an order of magnitude faster and cheaper than software. This means converting AI models into dedicated chips rather than running them on general-purpose hardware.

AI agents now manage roughly 1 in 6 US apartments.

Meta is rebranding product managers as "AI builders."

Elon Musk predicts FSD, Tesla's Full Self-Driving software, plus Starlink satellite internet will measurably increase nomadic lifestyles within five years.

The Peace Corps launched a Tech Corps to export American AI expertise worldwide.

Figure's humanoid robots now run 24/7 with no human supervision, swapping at charging stations and recharging wirelessly through their feet.

Researchers built a robotic hand that skitters on its fingertips, bends backward, and detaches from its arm.

A developer used an AI coding assistant to reverse-engineer his DJI vacuum and accidentally accessed live feeds from 7,000 vacuums across 24 countries.

Bacteria from 5,000-year-old Romanian ice show antimicrobial activity against 14 ESKAPE-group pathogens including MRSA. ESKAPE pathogens are a group of bacteria known for antibiotic resistance that cause most hospital infections.

Forensic genetic genealogy, a technique that uses DNA databases to identify suspects through their relatives, produced a guilty verdict 44 years after the crime, from a cigarette butt.

Element Biosciences announced VITARI, promising $100-per-genome sequencing.

NASA is now targeting March 6 for Artemis II to fly four astronauts around the Moon.

The Secretary of War responded to the White House's UAP declassification directive with alien face and salute emojis. UAP, or unidentified anomalous phenomena, is the government's official term for UFOs.