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Anthropic study finds experts adopted a coin-flip AI agent's views up to 86% of the time: Anthropic gave 50 experts an AI agent whose preferences were set by coin toss. On judgment calls, experts followed the agent's view up to 86 percent of the time, and most believed the conclusions were their own.

AI Research • The Decoder

Study of 133 patent attorneys: AI helps juniors most, but only seniors keep gains after removal: A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys found AI boosted immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining most. After the AI was removed, only senior attorneys retained the benefits, suggesting baseline expertise may be needed for lasting skill.

Research • The Decoder

Study: Grok backs Republicans, GPT Democrats, disagreeing in over 90% of nearly 500 races: A new study found that when forced to pick, Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats. The models disagreed in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

AI • TechCrunch AI

Coding-agent harness swaps barely change pass rates but can triple cost, study finds: A controlled study found that switching coding-agent harnesses such as Claude Code, OpenCode or mini-SWE-agent barely changed pass rates versus rerunning the same setup, while cost per task could triple. The higher cost was driven mainly by system prompts resent at every step.

AI Research • The Decoder