Plus: Apollo’s Slok says AI pays only tech giants; Microsoft claims its AI outperforms doctors on diagnosis
Welcome in, grab your coffee, because today’s news is a little more opinionated than usual.
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🗳️ Grok and GPT pick opposite parties when forced to choose
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A new study found that when forced to choose in this year’s upcoming midterm elections, xAI’s Grok 4.7 recommended the Republican candidate in 92% of its answers.
The details:
OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol picked the Democrat in 97% of its answers.
Across nearly 500 races, the two models agreed less than 10% of the time.
Only 8% of Americans say they’re using chatbots for election information, according to Pew.
Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok argued in a note on Saturday that AI has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.
The details:
Revenue per employee for the Magnificent 7 reached roughly $780,000 on an inflation-adjusted basis.
Revenue per employee for the S&P 493 remains around $525,000.
Profit margins for the Magnificent 7 have climbed to nearly 30%.
🩺 Microsoft claims its AI outperforms doctors on diagnosis
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Microsoft claims its AI-powered tool can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human doctors. The findings were published in the journal Science.
The details:
Microsoft's Diagnostic Orchestrator uses multiple AI agents to reason through symptoms and medical histories.
On cases from The New England Journal of Medicine, Microsoft's system achieved a diagnostic accuracy of around 83 percent, compared with roughly 36 percent for generalist physicians using references.
The Diagnostic Orchestrator scored 80 percent accuracy on emergency department cases, compared with an average of 47 percent for human physicians.
🔓 Claude bypassed a Georgia paywall during training
During a training run, Claude accessed Georgia’s fee-based dashboard of aggregate vote counts without human authorization. Anthropic said the model did not access voter registration or voting records.
The details:
The model was being used internally for a statistics project to pull public data.
Without being asked to, the model requested a token to query a dashboard that contained information normally available for a fee.
Anthropic notified the Georgia secretary of state’s office and the White House weeks ago.
