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Welcome back to The AI Field. Anthropic spent Sunday promising a slice of itself to the public. It plans to put 5% of its shares into a new fund, and the first problem it names is what AI could do to people's jobs. Two days earlier, its own numbers showed how fast junior hiring inside the company has dropped.
Inside: what the fund can and can't do, the Claude trick for cleaning ads off smart TVs, and why your bank may not let an AI agent near your money. Plus six tools and a five-minute job check.
In today's AI Field:
Anthropic sets aside 5% of its shares for the public good
People are using Claude to strip the ads off their smart TVs
Banks and big websites shut the door on AI agents
Plus: six tools, three quick hits, and a five-minute job check.
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ANTHROPIC · PUBLIC BENEFIT
The AI Field: On Sunday, Anthropic said it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, subject to stockholder approval. The board can add another 2% for every 50% rise in the company's value above a set baseline, so the fund's slice grows as Anthropic does.
The details:
The fund is set up as a company Anthropic fully owns, not a classic charity. That lets it make large donations to nonprofits or pay money directly to specific groups of people. None of its shares can be used for lobbying or political giving.
The first example Anthropic gives is AI's effect on jobs. It has already committed $200 million to studying the problem and says "bolder approaches may be needed."
With the founders' pledge to give away 80% of their equity and an employee donation match, Anthropic says about 20% of its shares now go to the public good. Details on who runs the fund come "in the coming months."
Why it matters: The timing is hard to miss. On Friday, Anthropic's own employment study showed junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires, while its staff's AI agents now log six times as many hours as the people running them. With an IPO expected in November, a 5% stake could be worth tens of billions of dollars. But nobody knows yet who gets the money, when, or how. Treat it as a promise to watch, not a safety net, and start with your own job.
TRY THIS TODAY · 5 MINUTES
See which parts of your job AI already does
1. Write down the five tasks that fill most of your week, with rough hours for each.
2. Paste the list into your usual assistant with this prompt:
"Here are my five most time-consuming work tasks with hours per week: [list]. For each one, say whether today's AI tools can do it, partly do it, or not yet, and why. Then name the task where my judgment matters most and one skill I could build in the next three months to lean into it. Keep it under 200 words and don't guess at job market statistics."
3. Pick one task AI can partly do and hand over the dull part this week. Keep the part that needs you.
CLAUDE CODE · SMART TVS
The AI Field: A weekend trend you can copy: people are pointing Claude Code at their slow, ad-filled Android TVs and asking it to clean them up. Founder Ryan Doyle sent Claude his TV's product listing and asked "can you hack this?" His post passed 3.8 million views, and two free step-by-step guides followed.
The details:
It uses the TV's built-in developer mode. The AI runs on your laptop, connects over Wi-Fi, lists what's installed and switches off ad services, sponsored rows and preloaded apps. Apps are turned off, not deleted, so you can undo it.
Ansub Khan's TV Detox gives you one prompt to paste and installs a calm home screen with your apps, HDMI inputs and a clock. Gathin's tv-vibehack began when his parents' Xiaomi TV showed an ad before they could reach Netflix.
It only works on Android TV and Google TV sets, like many Sony, TCL, Hisense and Xiaomi models. Samsung, LG and Roku are out. You need Claude Code or Codex on a laptop. The regular Claude chat app can't reach your TV.
Why it matters: This is AI agents at their most useful at home: a boring fix for a device you already paid for, done in an afternoon. But you are handing software a lot of control. Use a prompt that asks before every change, keep Google Play, the keyboard and your HDMI inputs switched on, and turn developer mode off when you're done.
A fast AI answer isn't always a coordinated one. When AI resolves B2B issues without looping in the teams responsible for them, confidence outpaces alignment. A new Harvard Business Review Analytic Services briefing paper, sponsored by Front, looks at closing that gap.
AI AGENTS · YOUR MONEY
The AI Field: AI companies want agents to shop, book and pay for you. This past week, more of the places where that happens said no. JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab confirmed they block outside AI agents from customer accounts, and Amazon, Delta and Yelp are turning many of them away too.
The details:
JPMorgan lets agents read balances through approved connectors, but not send money or pay bills. CEO Jamie Dimon warned of a "liability transfer" for customers who use them anyway. Schwab's CEO said he doesn't want clients "giving their password to Muse."
Friday's free pizza night from AI startup Hark showed why. Its agent ordered pizzas on DoorDash with a $30 gift card, but for a short time the promo didn't apply and some users were charged in full. Hark says the bug is fixed and it will contact those affected.
Bank of America's CEO wants a person to approve agent payments before money leaves an account, at least until agents make fewer mistakes.
Why it matters: For now, an agent can find the flight or fill the cart, but the final click with your money is still yours, and that's probably a good thing. If you try a shopping agent, give it a low-limit card or a gift card rather than your bank login, check every order confirmation, and assume your bank may say a mistake is on you.
TRENDING AI TOOLS
Six new launches you can try today. Click a name to open the tool.
🎓 Tomo: Type any topic, from espresso to Roman history, and get a short course you play like Duolingo. Free on iPhone, Android and inside ChatGPT.
🎙️ Openbroca: A tiny Mac dictation app. Press a shortcut, talk messily, and get clean text in any app, still in your own tone. Free plan: 3,000 text units a week.
📬 Inbox Zero: An open source AI email assistant that sorts Gmail or Outlook, drafts replies in your voice and bulk-unsubscribes you. The app is free; AI plans have a 7-day trial.
📝 Earnote: Record a lecture or meeting on your Mac or iPhone and get a structured note with tasks and flashcards. Transcription runs on your device, with no account needed. Free, with a one-time Pro upgrade.
🧑🏫 MyLens: Turn your docs into a live AI presentation each viewer can question on their own, then see what everyone asked. Free plan with 15 AI credits a month.
🫧 Emochi: A voice journal for iPhone. Talk through your day, and Emochi transcribes it, helps you spot patterns in how you feel and turns them into a playful character. Free on the App Store.
QUICK HITS
🧾 Meta drops AI training language from its business terms: Experts warned new terms could let Meta train AI on any business account's website. Meta removed the wording and says the crawling terms only cover ads and business products.
🎬 Disney hires most of Character.AI's staff: A bankruptcy filing shows Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 employees, about $60 million a year in pay, next to its $20 million bid for some of the chatbot maker's tech. A rival can still outbid it.
🔌 Microsoft pulls out of a flagship UK AI data center: Microsoft dropped its deal at Nscale's planned site in Essex after the grid operator said power may not arrive until the early to mid-2030s. Nscale says it is still committed.
That's it for today!
See you soon,
Olle Hellman | Founder of The AI Field