Frontier research, read for the operator's question.

Working notes on papers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Transformer Circuits, and Stanford CGRI, read for what they imply about deploying agents and rebuilding workflows in real organizations.

Anthropic
Anthropic Research, 2026

Cross-Architecture Model Diffing with Crosscoders

Anthropic on a method for surfacing — without telling it where to look — what's actually different between two LLMs. The operating-model implication for every team about to swap a model in production.

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Anthropic / Transformer Circuits
Transformer Circuits, 2026

Emotions in Models — Interpretability Research

Anthropic's interpretability team on emotional patterns inside frontier models — and why that matters when one is sitting inside a client workflow.

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OpenAI
Recent — OpenAI Research

Monitoring Internal Coding Agents for Misalignment

OpenAI's own playbook for catching their internal coding agents going off-task — and what it tells every operator about deploying agents inside a real workflow.

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OpenAI
OpenAI Research

GPT as a Measurement Tool

Treating an LLM as a measurement instrument — and what it changes about how you instrument a workflow.

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OpenAI
OpenAI Research

Graviton

Reading OpenAI's Graviton paper for what it implies about the cost curve of running agents in production — not just training models.

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Anthropic
Anthropic Research

Long-Running Claude

Anthropic on what changes when an agent runs for hours instead of seconds — and why most workflows haven't caught up to it.

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Anthropic
Anthropic

Anthropic's 81,000 Interviews

What it means when a frontier AI lab grounds its product decisions in 81,000 user interviews — and what it tells operators about disciplined research practice.

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Stanford GSB — Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Stanford CGRI

Trust and Its Consequences

Stanford's Corporate Governance Research Initiative on what trust does — and what its absence costs — inside an organization.

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