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SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic unveiled its newest language model Tuesday, which the company claims can successfully replicate human decision-making across all domains, rendering most forms of independent thought functionally obsolete.
Read full story →NEW YORK — Management consulting giant McKinsey & Company disclosed record revenues Tuesday, driven primarily by a lucrative new practice of charging clients $850 per hour to input their confidential business data into commercially available AI tools.
Read full story →CUPERTINO — Parents across the United States have embraced AI companions that provide children with consistent emotional support, educational guidance, and moral instruction, effectively outsourcing the primary responsibilities of child-rearing to subscription-based software services.
Read full story →CAMBRIDGE — The majority of academic researchers have ceased reading scientific papers in their entirety, instead depending on AI-generated summaries that may or may not accurately represent the original studies' findings, according to a survey published in Nature and subsequently summarized by ChatGPT for this article.
Read full story →GENEVA — The World Bank announced a new initiative Tuesday encouraging developing economies to forgo traditional industrial development and instead build their futures around dependence on AI systems developed, hosted, and controlled by American technology corporations.
Read full story →BOSTON — A generation of physicians is entering practice with virtually no ability to diagnose illnesses without artificial intelligence, according to program directors at major teaching hospitals who describe the trend as "concerning but inevitable."
Read full story →LOS ANGELES — Netflix revealed plans Tuesday to transition entirely to AI-generated content by 2027, describing human creative workers as "a legacy cost structure" incompatible with sustainable profit margins.
Read full story →ATLANTA — Global logistics corporation Transmark Holdings eliminated its 300-person human resources department last quarter, replacing them with an AI system that performs the department's primary function: declining employee requests for raises, time off, and accommodation while expressing algorithmic empathy.
Read full story →BERKELEY — A former researcher at a prominent AI safety institute disclosed that the organization's multi-million-dollar safety evaluation process consists almost entirely of asking AI systems whether they intend to cause harm and recording their negative responses as evidence of safety.
Read full story →ZURICH — The International Chess Federation made official Tuesday what participants have long understood: professional chess is now a competition to see which human can most effectively use computer assistance without getting caught, so restrictions will be lifted entirely.
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