AI Reading for Friday April 11
What’s Wrong With Apple? - NY Times
Apple's reputation for innovation has suffered over Siri, Apple Intelligence, lack of Vision Pro product-market fit. Tim Cook approved doubling Apple's AI chips budget in 2023 after John Giannandrea sought more GPUs, but CFO Luca Maestri cut the increase to under half.
When Android and Windows are jumping ahead of Apple, they got problems.
A decade of mismanagement culminated in Siri's train wreck - AppleInsider
OpenAI readies GPT-4.1 - The Verge
OpenAI slashes AI model safety testing time - FT
OpenAI says it is no longer people or compute-constrained, could rebuild GPT-4 from scratch with just 5 to 10 people, thanks to breakthroughs from its latest model - Business Insider
ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats - Ars Technica
Tariffs threaten ability to build clean power, or any power - Semafor
Firebase Studio is a low-code dev patform from Google - The Register
Google Cloud is transforming almost every aspect of app development with agentic AI - SiliconANGLE
How AI is interacting with our creative human processes: Three books examine what we gain and lose when we let machines create. - MIT Technology Review
Sorry, Joni Mitchell, please don't hate me for this AI rewrite of ‘Both Sides Now’, her genius song for the ages - Google Docs
Make your own version - ChatGPT
Nuclear Power Is Back. And This Time, AI Can Help Manage the Reactors. - WSJ
Chinese firms such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu are flooding the market with open-source AI models, leading to accelerated adoption and cross-pollination. - Business Insider
AI advances mean we need to double down on critical thinking - Fast Company
Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military, reading, translating, summarizing more text than humans could process, analyzing OSINT and sensor data - MIT Technology Review
AI shopping app founder charged with fraud for using humans to complete tasks on the back end - Tech In Asia
Why AI Projects Fail (video) - YouTube
How AI Made the Future Unthinkable - Intelligencer
Medical diagnostic AI models sometimes altered their decisions based on a patient's socioeconomic and demographic profile. - Digital Journal
Cursor doubles annual run rate to $200m - Entrepreneur
Does AI Know Web Development with Angular?
Adobe briefly joined Bluesky, got hounded by angry creatives. - Reddit
Adobe social media manager: damn that was a tough day, let me just have a smoke (sorry, I had to read this, now so do you) - NY Daily News
Measuring a human's leadership skills by how well they manage a team of AI agents - NBER
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