AI Reading for Friday July 25

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August, open models coming earlier - The Verge

Video: ChatGPT can now function as a personal assistant. - ABC News

If people buy with AI, return rates are going to go up, some promotions won't work if robots go ham on them, customer service and policies will change. I think direct-to-consumer will squeeze category killer big box stores.

"These days, interns are being paid the amount that we raised as our first entire seed round," Hassabis said. Says Meta's hiring might be rational because they are behind and have to do something, but researchers won't be lured if they are paid competitively and are aligned with the mission. - Business Insider

Google’s AI Overviews are cutting off the oxygen to the web - Fortune

Google Search’s Web Guide now clusters search results by topic, improving exploratory search via Gemini-powered query fan-out - Search Engine Journal

Google AI Mode will generate fake clothes to help you buy real ones - The Verge

Google's new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes - TechCrunch

Google is making video AI models harder to ignore, invading more of YouTube and Photos. - Ars Technica

Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal - TechCrunch

In new memo, Microsoft CEO addresses ‘enigma’ of layoffs amid record profits and AI investments - GeekWire

Job cuts weigh on Satya Nadella but says AI transformation is the imperative - The Register

Trump's AI Action Plan Is Here: 5 Key Takeaways - CNET

Donald Trump Wants to be AI's Fairy Godmother - The Atlantic

Why does Trump keep posting fake news / lying AI ragebait? - dw.comU.S. agencies are integrating LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI in 115+ use cases, though oversight remains limited - Less Wrong

America’s FTC AI watchdog is losing its bite. “There will be fewer, if any, enforcement actions about how companies are deploying AI,” says former FTC attorney Leah Frazier. - MIT Technology Review

Stephen S. Roach thinks the cuts to basic research will hand the AI future to China - Project Syndicate

Intel warned it may abandon development of its next-generation 14A chip without a major customer, signaling the end of US semiconductor fabrication leadership. - Business Insider

Huang: don't "raw dog it" without AI - Benzinga

like a leather jacket, don’t leave home without it, even in July

Judge refers lawyers to the bar and licensing authorities over fake citations, requires them to inform all their clients they do stupid stuff with AI. - The Baltimore Banner

Judge withdraws decision in biopharma case that included apparent AI hallucinations. - The Verge

straight to jail! sometimes AI is the disease if you use it wrong and 'raw-dogging' is safer.

US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan found AI chatbot Claude to have conducted an excellent analysis of a complicated Constitutional dispute. - Bloomberg Law

Tesla is building hundreds of robots, not thousands it planned to. - The Information

Figma’s AI app building tool is now available for everyone - The Verge

Walmart built so many AI agents, things started to get confusing. Now the retail giant is looking to consolidate its AI agents into four “super agents”, for customers, staff, engineers, and sellers/suppliers, using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol. - The Wall Street Journal

Walmart Reveals AI Roadmap That Points To A World Without Search Boxes, just agents - Forbes

Can Amazon finally make AI wearables happen? This buzzy new device could be its best bet - ZDNET

Amazon Q extension was compromised with a prompt that would delete users’ AWS cloud resources - The Register

AI boosts effort to combat long Covid and other fatigue diseases: Scientists hunt biological flags in gut bacteria and immune systems for chronic conditions - Financial Times

ChatGPT cracks another medical cold case, identifying blood pressure medicine ingredient as cause of persistent cough. - Mashable India

'The ocean is no longer too big to watch': How AI and satellite data are helping rid Earth's seas of illegal fishing - Space

How Anthropic teams use Claude Code - Anthropic

Anthropic unveils ‘auditing agents’ to test for AI misalignment - VentureBeat

Delta and other companies want to spy on you to set prices. What does it mean for your next purchase? - Vox

China plans network to sell surplus computing power in crackdown on data centre glut - Reuters

Somehow we found a way to make influencer videos even more annoying - Reddit

Tough but fair - YouTube

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