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Anthropic recently told its growth team to hire more product managers, not fewer, and the reason tells you something important about where AI is heading. Claude Code has effectively tripled the output of its engineering team, but that just moved the bottleneck upstream, to the humans deciding what to build in the first place. More horsepower means you need a better driver.
That tension between human judgment and machine capability runs through our next story too. Researchers are exploring what happens when AI agents operate inside economic frameworks, essentially refusing tasks until compensated within automated systems. It sounds abstract, but it raises a genuinely uncomfortable question about who, or what, is actually in control of your software pipeline.
And speaking of control, people across Europe are about to lose access to Studio Canal films they paid for on the PlayStation Store. This is a story we keep telling because it keeps happening. Digital purchases are licenses, not ownership, and the distinction matters enormously when a platform or licensing deal quietly expires and your library disappears with it.
These are the trade-offs worth watching. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
