AI Reading for Friday December 27

Microsoft and OpenAI wrangle over their complicated deal and the conversion to for-profit status

Microsoft and OpenAI Wrangle Over Terms of Their Blockbuster Partnership - The Information

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Microsoft and OpenAI's deal contains a financial definition of AGI: $100b in profits. - TechCrunch

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OpenAI blog posts details plan to convert for-profit arm into a PBC. - OpenAI

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OpenAI recovers from outage, blamed on 'upstream provider' (probably a power issue at a Microsoft data center) - The Verge

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AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse - Bloomberg

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How Airbnb uses AI to block NYE party rentals. - Metro

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Can You Tell Which Parts of These Images Are A.I.-Generated? - NY Times

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CEO of chip testing company warns of potential for 'vicious' downturn - MSN

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New AI art magazine critically evaluates creations like 'Girl in a Pizza Dress' - Creative Bloq

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Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users, which seems like the death of social media as we know it, outside small vetted communities. - FT

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Using computer vision and AI to monitor construction projects and flag discrepancies vs. plans - Herald-Sun

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Scaling back-end pipelines that use AI - Phil Calçado

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The more I play with Gemini 2.0, the more I like it, having deep conversations with it about stuff I want to learn about, like hierarchical risk parity, frequentists v. Bayesians, Thomas Cover’s universal portfolio. Top-ranked in LMarena for now, beating gpt-4o by a statistically insignificant amount. Google is not messing around. I wonder if o3 is hype and a slightly improved auto-chain of thought like o1, or if OpenAI found a new and better way to train long thinking processes.

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Using OpenAI to invent a holiday movie, and Grok to make guardrails-free images with Hollywood stars. - Grok

More of a Hallmark TV movie at best tbh, maybe Richard Curtis of Love Actually can rescue it.

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