Weekly Top Picks #116
exAI / Claude on Iran / Job automation vs job irrelevance / Meta's out / McKinsey hacked / People hate AI / NYT quiz & human nature
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THE WEEK IN AI AT A GLANCE
Money & Business: More and more top engineers and developers are leaving xAI as Grok falls behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Geopolitics: Claude was used to select targets in the Iran strikes. One of them was a girls’ school.
Work & Workers: The question isn’t whether AI will automate your job but whether AI will make your job irrelevant.
Products & Capabilities: Meta delays its new flagship model after it fails to match the frontier. Meanwhile, the top three labs reach escape velocity.
Trust & Safety: A one-man ethical hacking outfit breached McKinsey’s AI platform in two hours, which says it all about the safety of AI.
Culture & Society: People really hate AI. The polls confirm it.
Philosophy: A NYT quiz went viral. People prefer AI writing, but the reason comes down to the thin line between belief and value.
MONEY & BUSINESS
exAI
xAI is losing the people and the race.
