The Board Room

Anthropic says dozens of Claude agents ran mostly autonomously for 11 days and produced a formally verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, independently reviewed by Imperial College London's Kevin Buzzard, per Techpresso. Treat it as a funding test rather than a milestone: agent autonomy converts to leverage where an automated verifier already exists, and turns into supervision cost where judgment is the output.

An AI-agent-assisted crew completed a full ransomware intrusion in under 10 hours, per CSO's reporting. Entry was exposed credentials, and escalation ran across trust relationships spanning development and cloud environments, with no exploit required. Every tiered escalation and on-call handoff in your runbook is latency now, not control. Two independent security roundups flag the 10-hour figure as headline-level sourcing: mechanism solid, magnitude unverified.

PostgreSQL patched a 12-year-old logical decoding flaw that lets any account holding the REPLICATION attribute run code as the operating-system user behind the database, per The Hacker News. Change-data-capture, ETL and warehouse vendors routinely hold that attribute, so an afternoon's patch becomes a third-party privilege audit and a legal review of what suppliers could technically reach. A separate toolkit was compiled into victims' own HAProxy builds, so integrity checks passed by design.

August payrolls printed 162,000, more than triple the Dow Jones consensus, and rate-hike odds for the Sept 16 Fed meeting moved from 49% to 59% in a single session, per Morning Brew. The information sector shed 23,000 jobs in the same month restaurants and bars added 59,000. Your cost of capital and your seat-count expansion are being repriced at once, and only the first one is cyclical.

EY US committed $100M to rewarding judgment, business acumen and adaptability, and announced a paid Career Residency of eight to twelve months in which participants join as analysts rather than interns, starting in 2028. Graduates now begin their careers reviewing model output — supervision work that used to be earned after a decade of doing the job. The 2028 start is a window for faster builders, not a moat for EY.