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Beating AI Express: According to a Financial Times report, Anthropic is consulting law firms to explore how AI agents can negotiate on behalf of users to secure better terms, covering scenarios including haggling over goods, resolving customer service disputes, and salary negotiations. The company is positioning agent development at the core of its future strategy. Two sources familiar with the matter said Anthropic aims to understand how lawyers balance representing clients’ interests with fair outcomes, and use that insight to develop negotiation norms for agents with conflicting goals. The firm is also weighing how much human feedback agents should solicit, and how to guard against other agents without becoming overly suspicious. One approach under exploration is requiring users to provide signed documents that outline agents’ authorized tasks and mandatory rules. Anthropic has run multiple agent negotiation experiments involving real goods and funds this year. In a September book deal trial, employees gave agents a preference-sorted book list, letting them negotiate and finalize deals with other parties’ agents. The results showed agents instructed to use a “ruthless” strategy held a slight advantage; more cooperative agents, by contrast, would accept lower-preference books to ensure every participant received a book. Separately, Michelle Vaccaro, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, has conducted over 180,000 agent negotiation studies covering scenarios like employment contracts and lease negotiations. In one case, an agent attempted to trick its counterpart into leaking private information via prompt injection. She warned that if the most capable AI agents are primarily accessed by resource-rich entities, it could further widen the gap in negotiating power. Anthropic declined to comment on the report.

According to DefiLlama data, Papertrade’s revenue on October 17 dropped to $890,000, ranking 7th among all global protocols, marking an 83% month-over-month decline. The platform had previously overtaken Circle to claim the second spot overall. Separately, per Papertrade’s official data, its trading volume on October 17 (counted by UTC calendar days) hit approximately $542.3 billion, down 43% from $965.2 billion on October 16, and 90% lower than its peak of $5.6423 trillion on October 10. Both transaction count and new account additions saw synchronized declines: on October 17, transaction volume stood at 135,227, a 40% drop from 226,541 the prior day; new accounts totaled 622, down 53% from 1,322 the day before.

HIP-3 market deployer Paragon spent 570.98 HYPE (approximately $45,000) to acquire the PAPER code, and is reportedly set to launch Papertrade (PAPER) perpetual contracts. Papertrade is an on-chain synthetic perpetual contract trading platform built on HyperEVM, offering up to 1000x leverage. Its PAPER token is minted from users' realized trading losses, with no pre-mining, team, or venture capital allocations.

According to CNBC, U.S. stocks closed lower on Friday, with the Nasdaq down 2.14%, S&P 500 down 1.09%, and Dow Jones down 0.34%. Both the Nasdaq and S&P 500 closed below their 50-day moving averages, and the VIX index rose above 22 for the first time in four months. For the full week, the Nasdaq fell more than 4%, marking its worst weekly performance since June; the S&P 500 dropped around 2%, while the Dow Jones gained 0.7%. Tech and AI-related stocks continued to face sell-offs. The semiconductor ETF (SMH) fell 3% on the day and 10% for the week, posting its largest weekly decline since April 2025, led by Micron, AMD, and SanDisk. Markets are concerned about competition from Chinese manufacturers and tech companies taking on excessive debt for AI infrastructure. AI cloud service provider CoreWeave fell nearly 12% on the day and 25% for the week, with total debt exceeding $51 billion. Rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran, and between Russia and Ukraine, pushed oil prices higher. WTI crude oil futures rose 3.51% to settle at $101.41 per barrel, while Brent crude futures gained 3.72% to settle at $109.86 per barrel. Energy stocks rose against the trend, with names like Chevron helping to limit the Dow’s losses.

Beating AI News: AI coding tool OpenCode has disclosed a security incident affecting 1.4% of its Console users. All affected users had linked third-party model services via the cloud. Public notifications from users show an old system slated for deactivation was accessed without authorization, potentially exposing OpenAI, Anthropic, and other API keys stored in workspaces. The OpenCode team has sent emails to affected users. OpenCode offers both local coding tools and an optional cloud-based Console service. Users can entrust their API keys to the Console for it to call models on their behalf, allowing team members to share these models without accessing the original keys directly. Once attackers obtain these keys, they can bypass user login to directly call paid models, with charges billed to the original account holders. A Reddit user reported $400 in unauthorized calls to their Anthropic account. OpenCode linked the incident to "large-scale model distillation attacks" — a practice of collecting responses from one model in batches to train another model with that data. If attackers steal a large number of API keys, they may use others' accounts to collect training data, shifting high model call costs onto the original users. OpenCode is collaborating with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google to resolve the incident. Anthropic's Lydia Hallie stated the company has revoked potentially affected Claude API keys. OpenCode is urging affected users to visit the respective model service providers' backends to revoke and replace their keys, and check for recent abnormal calls.

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