Reason Enables Claude Code and Codex to Assign Tasks Across Computers: They Can Communicate With Each Other, But Still Cannot Automatically Prevent Code Conflicts

Mark Newton, an analyst at Tom Lee’s fund, told CNBC that now is a good time to buy tech stocks on dips, but investors need to stay diversified and prepare for sector rotation. Over the past month, cross-asset volatility has risen sharply; the S&P 500 has pulled back roughly 6% recently, and the tech sector has seen a notable correction in the past week. Still, compared to its September rally, he notes tech stocks have suffered relatively limited losses. This year, the market has consistently exhibited sector rotation: the energy sector first rallied nearly 40%, gains then spread to tech, and the trend has now shifted to the healthcare sector, which is hitting record highs. Investors should prepare for sector shifts and maintain diversified portfolios. Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, warned that even if investors do not actively allocate to AI, they may hold significant tech exposure via S&P 500 index funds. The market remains dominated by sector rotation for now, but he is concerned about continued declines in tech stocks and investors starting to question the returns on AI investments.

Elon Musk posted on X that Optimus (Tesla’s humanoid robot) and Cybercab (self-driving taxi) will constitute the vast majority of Tesla’s future value. He noted that the only sectors capable of large-scale economic expansion are superintelligence, robotics, solar energy, and space transportation, adding that once superintelligence and robotics are achieved, progress in other areas will follow. When discussing the Roadster, Musk stated: "But the Roadster is very cool, so we will still produce it."

According to data from Farside Investors, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted a combined net outflow of $228.4 million this week. Specifically, IBIT saw a net outflow of $165.4 million, FBTC recorded a net outflow of $60.2 million, BTC had a net outflow of $7.6 million, and BTCO posted a net outflow of $4.1 million. Meanwhile, MSBT and BITB notched net inflows of $6.7 million and $2.2 million respectively.

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.

According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has broken through the $82,000 mark, with a 0.52% gain in the past 24 hours.