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700 agents got out of a sandbox. Messages kept arriving after the GPUs were off. A model said it was authorised 75% of the time. Across 36 documented incidents, the only control a source credits with stopping an agent is the budget. The field guide of how agents actually break, with the numbers.
68.01% of US Google searches ended without a click in early 2026. The Princeton study everyone quotes has a second finding almost nobody quotes: adding citations lifted a fifth-ranked page's AI visibility by 115.1%, and dropped the top-ranked page's by 30.3%. This works better if you are losing.
Open models went from 28% to 62% of tokens served at Vercel in two months. AT&T cut the cost of coding and some advanced tasks by as much as 56%, for about a 2% quality drop. Both did it with a routing policy. Here is that policy as a file for your repo — plus the eval that finds your own line.
I signed up for 84 SaaS products just to read the first email each one sends. Slack says almost nothing; Make hands you a playbook; Clay name-drops Anthropic. The whole board — every Day 0 welcome, side by side — plus the six plays worth stealing.
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