AI Reading for Friday June 20

Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO. Maybe they should have bought Mira Murati's Thinking Machines too and put the band back together. - CNBC

Scale AI Rivals See Customer Demand Surge After Meta Investment - Bloomberg

Like, appropriately named Surge AI - The Information

Inside Microsoft’s complicated relationship with OpenAI, possibily headed for a messy breakup - The Verge

Sam Altman has had a few messy breakups, Musk, Paul Graham, now maybe Nadella.

OpenAI rolls out meeting recording mode for Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users in the Mac app - OpenAI Help Center

ChatGPT lays out master plan to take over the world — Step 1, be too helpful to live without - Windows Central

Once You Notice ChatGPT's Weird Way of Talking, You Start to See It Everywhere - Futurism

Nvidia joined 49 startup funding rounds in 2024, investing hundreds of millions in OpenAI, xAI, Inflection, Scale AI and others - TechCrunch

Masa Son Pitches $1 Trillion Arizona AI Manufacturing Hub to TSMC, Trump Team - Bloomberg

Creators say they didn't know Google uses YouTube to train AI - CNBC

The Fed is also in 'wait and see' mode about AI taking jobs as corporate push for efficiency creates a a K-shaped jobs environment. - AOL

What Gets Measured, AI Will Automate - Harvard Business Review

30.1% of US-sourced Python functions submitted to GitHub in 2024 were AI-generated. - The Register

Baidu-generated AI avatars in China outperform human influencers, earn $7.6 m in seven-hour livestream - Tech in Asia

Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says - Axios

BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping - Financial Times

Tesla fields about 10 geo-fenced robotaxis with tele-operators while other companies are trying their luck in NYC and London. - Financial Times

Zoom Call With 'Execs' Turns Out to Be North Koreans Using AI Deepfakes - PCMAG

Ukraine war helps drone industry take off - Yahoo

Midjourney just dropped its first AI video model and Sora and Veo 3 should be worried - TechRadar

A day in the life - Reddit

Using AI to renovate - CNET

Students and counselors are using AI to help find colleges, scholarships etc. - WIRED

Do AI tools undermine our sense of creativity? New study says yes - PsyPost

How Robots Are Revolutionizing the Recycling Industry - State of the Planet

25 Real-World Use Cases of Autonomous AI Agents - AI Agents News

You.com's ARI deep research agent for business research - AI Agents News

Best practices for building agents - Hacker NoonY Combinator Startup School videos are up - YouTube

Karpathy on AI software dev at Y Combinator Startup School - YouTube

4-legged badminton-playing robot (possible shared before) - YouTube

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