The Wall Street Journal has a piece by Hannah Erin Lang on ordinary US investors wiring their brokerage accounts to agents built with Claude or Codex, then letting the resulting code trade for them. No quant background, no firm, no risk desk. A prompt, a broker API key, and a strategy that exists because a model wrote it. Retail algo trading is not new. Backtesting platforms … [Read more...] about Retail Investors Are Vibe-Coding Trading Algorithms With Claude and Codex
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OpenAI Says It Hit Its Automated Research Intern Goal at 3.1 Agent-Workdays Per Human Workday
OpenAI says it has reached the "automated research intern" milestone it set for itself, and it has put two numbers behind the claim. Its researchers are now running 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday, and the heaviest external users are spending upward of $7,000 a day on tokens. Agent-workdays is a new unit, and it is a smart one to publish. It sidesteps benchmark … [Read more...] about OpenAI Says It Hit Its Automated Research Intern Goal at 3.1 Agent-Workdays Per Human Workday