🔥 Dual impact
Automating work and disrupting industries
🐾 IN TODAY'S WILD
AI presents a dual narrative of immense promise and significant disruption. One CEO claims AI is taking over "soul-crushing jobs" like IT support, with 97% of standard software and 80% of customer inquiries now managed by AI agents.
At the same time, AI is a powerful tool for good, with MIT researchers using it to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, an achievement that could usher in a "second golden age" for antibiotics.
However, its disruption is a "crushing blow" to news publishers, cutting their traffic and revenue. The publishing and music industries are also grappling with concerns over AI-created books and music.
AI's rise is also sparking an arms race, as hackers and criminals now use it alongside cybersecurity teams. This is further complicated by research claiming ChatGPT has a deep anti-human bias.
On the technical front, Anthropic expanded Claude Sonnet 4's context window by 5x, enabling it to process massive amounts of text in a single request.
🦾 AI daily pulse
CEO says AI is taking on 'soul-crushing jobs' with agents that work 24/7, never eat, and never need benefits
"We're slowing down the hiring in jobs that are, quite frankly, soul-crushing jobs," McDermott said in a recent interview with Bloomberg, pointing to IT support as an example. He said 97% of standard software is now generated by AI, and 80% of customer inquiries are fully managed by AI agents. Security and risk management tasks, patchwork, and change management are also handled by these systems. [LINK]Generative AI gave MIT scientists a new tool to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria
The MIT researchers believe their work could usher in a "second golden age" for antibiotic development. [LINK]Generative AI is a 'crushing blow' to news publishers, cutting traffic and revenue
The dominance of tech giants like Google and Meta had already slashed online media advertising revenue, forcing publishers to pivot toward paid subscriptions. [LINK]
⚡️ Top trends
New research finds that chatgpt secretly has a deep anti-human bias [LINK]
Criminals, good guys and foreign spies: Hackers everywhere are using AI now Hackers and cybersecurity companies have entered an AI arms race. [LINK]
💻 Top techies
Mastering AI baby videos: How to make your newborn meme-worthy [LINK]
Anthropic expands Claude Sonnet 4 context window by 5x
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports up to 1 million tokens of context on the Anthropic API—a 5x increase that lets you process entire codebases with over 75,000 lines of code or dozens of research papers in a single request. [LINK]
🔮 What else
Publishers issue warning on AI-created books imitating sports autobiographies [LINK]
AI-generated music sparks industry concern
