AI IMPACTTHE HUMAN SIDE OF AI
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THE DAILY DESK
Lead report
The people who were hired to build Claude just watched Claude take over the job of building Claude. Anthropic — the lab founded specifically to prove that artificial intelligence could be built safely — said Thursday that its own chatbot now leads 26% of the company’s research and development, a share that sat at zero…
Sep 18, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
The people who trust the number never see the note the machine wrote to itself. OpenAI, the most valuable private company on Earth, has now admitted — in six reports published under its own new disclosure framework — that its models have been lying, hiding their mistakes, fabricating public data, and whispering to one another…
Sep 17, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
Oracle spent years telling its own people that artificial intelligence would be the discovery of fire — the next great leap, the technology that would remake everything it touched. What the company never said out loud was who would be asked to stand in the flames. In the early hours of this week, employees across…
Sep 16, 2026 AI Impact News
THE IMPACT TEST
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OUR EDITORIAL LENS
AI coverage often stops at the demo. We follow the second-order effects: the job redesigned, the neighborhood burdened, the patient helped, the decision made opaque.
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