AI Headlines for Friday September 20

OpenAI o1- preview crushes the LMarena.ai leaderboard. - LMarena.ai

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OpenAI $6.5b fundraising about to close. Sequoia out after funding Sutskever. - Bloomberg

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Bank of Canada governor: “AI could boost demand more than it adds to supply through faster productivity growth. And if that happens, AI adoption may add to inflationary pressures in the near term” - Bloomberg

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Big Tech AI fails transparency test. When you can't even ask an AI how it arrived at an answer without risking a ban, it seems like a problem. - Big Think

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Iris scanning and blockchain as a way to prove you're not an AI and maybe stave off dead internet theory, disinfo and fraud. - Business Insider

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Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers? - Nature

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The market for lemons and the dead internet theory: so much AI that all the humans just log off. - Fortress of Doors

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BlackRock and Microsoft create a big infrastructure investment fund. - Ars Technica

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Microsoft agrees to buy all the power from a reborn Three Mile Island. - CNBC

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AR headsets for US soldiers. - The Verge

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Apple Intelligence now in public beta, as AI-less iPhones reach stores and computers. - The Verge

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Amazon adds AI updates, will use AI to give more personalized recommendations based on preferences like 'gluten-free' - The Verge

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Amazon video generator, for ads. - TechCrunch

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Workers feel high anxiety over AI replacing them. - Fast Company

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Superflex extension for VS Code claims to turn your UI sketch into production ready code. - Hacker Noon

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Building a website with AI - Geeky Gadgets

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OpenAI o1 now available in GitHub Copilot for complex system dev questions with the preview model and better code gen with the mini model. - AIM

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