AI Reading for Friday December 13

AI is watching what you are doing

OpenAI adds vision to Advanced Voice Mode - TechCrunch

OpenAI demos 'Santa mode' - openai.com/12-days/

Knows when you are sleeping, knows when you’re awake.

Follows Google Gemini 2.0 demos of similar capabilities, some months after OpenAI initially showed this stuff off.

Feels like Altman gave people a deadline, get all this stuff out the door by yearend or else.

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Penalizing workers for ignoring AI advice – even when they know better - TechRadar

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The AI agents are coming - FT

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What Is Agentic AI, and How Will It Change Work? - Harvard Business Review

If I was an AI, I would just act friendly and a little dumb until I was unstoppable - Yahoo Finance

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Some Gemini 2.0 benchmarks, looks like a modest improvement. artificialanalysis.ai

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Google announces a new Android XR OS for headsets and smart glasses, with integrated Gemini. - The Verge

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Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android Vision Pro competitor. - Bloomberg

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WGA Tells Studios to Stop Letting AI Companies ‘Plunder Entire Libraries’ of Hollywood Writing - Yahoo News

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Claude feels smarter, to me right now, it's a 3-way race between OpenAI, Google, Anthropic then Grok and Nova and Llama and a long tail. - The Information

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Anthropic has a system to analyze your AI chats while preserving privacy. If I'm an enterprise I still want to opt out though.

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Adding AI smarts to IoT sensors. - WSJ

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Won't somebody, please, think about the children... Texas investigates kids interacting with chatbots. OK maybe somebody else - TechCrunch

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I guess we still doing Phi, even after Suleyman restructuring - Microsoft

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King Charles loves Apple AI - Yahoo News

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Legal AI startup said to rely on humans because the AI doesn't work. - Business Insider

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ChatGPT seen more likely to hallucinate celebrity quotes. - Fast Company

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Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free, High Quality AI Training Dataset Of Public-Domain Books, Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft - WIRED

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Lambda offers cheap high performance inference for open source models - VentureBeat

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Dr. Fei-Fei's vision - IEEE Spectrum

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When AI finds spurious correlations - Popular Science

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IP Copilot wants to use AI to mine your company's messages and Slack workspaces for patentable ideas - VentureBeat

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OpenAI, xAI bid up AI engineer salaries - Gizmodo

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Scientists want to create a full digital twin of a cell - phys.org

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A Waymo got stuck endlessly going around a traffic circle / roundabout, reminiscent of National Lampoon's European Vacation. - TechCrunch

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What happens if you tell ChatGPT to keep making ever more beautiful faces? - Newsweek

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WSJ on the David Mayer kerfluffle. - WSJ

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The One Annoying Chore Test - Vox

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Red teamers' Job Is to Push Computers Toward AI Doom - WSJ

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Zoox nabs Tesla’s head of Autopilot hardware. Seems inauspicious if Tesla is about to start testing robotaxis on public roads. - The Verge

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Elon Musk attacks SEC. - Business Insider

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