AI Reading for Friday, June 27

AI returns have not yet justified investment mania - Financial Times

The A.I. Frenzy Is Escalating. Again. - The New York Times

In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race - The New York Times

OpenAI says they created a robotics system, trained entirely in simulation and deployed on a physical robot, which can learn a new task after seeing it done once. - OpenAI

Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI - The New York Times

From Apple's Tim Cook to OpenAI's Sam Altman, here's how CEOs use AI daily for emails, podcasts, fatherhood, and more - Business Insider

SoftBank’s Founder Lays Out Vision to Be No. 1 in Artificial Superintelligence - The Wall Street Journal

SoftBank CEO says he's 'all in' on OpenAI, reveals he's long wanted Microsoft's spot as main backer - CNBC

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff says AI now does up to half of all the work at his company - SiliconANGLE

Get paid faster: How Intuit’s new AI agents help businesses get funds up to 5 days faster and save 12 hours a month with autonomous workflows - VentureBeat

Amazon loses AWS generative AI boss - Reuters

Enterprises can't overlook security when embracing AI - Fast Company

AI overviews and an AI chatbot are coming to YouTube. Here's what they look like - ZDNET

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall enhanced paywall to boost to appease publishers - TechCrunch

Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you - TechCrunch

DeepSeek’s Progress Stalled by U.S. Export Controls, shortage of GPUs - The Information

DeepSeek faces expulsion from Apple, Google app stores in Germany due to inadequate data protections, transferring consumer data to China - Reuters

As Iran and Israel fought, people turned to AI for facts. They didn't find many - NPR

From Real-Life Covert War Mission to Explosive On-Screen Adaptation in Just a Week: How AI Short ‘The Decisive Moment’ Hopes to Become ‘Mission: Impossible’ for the News - Variety

Updating Poynter’s ‘starter kit’ for newsrooms to build AI policies, including sections for visual journalists and product teams. - Poynter

Peter Thiel on A.I., Mars and immortality. - The New York Times

An O.G. AI Researcher on How Being Social and Cultural Makes us Intelligent--and Whether Machines Can Ever Learn Empathy - Jessica Nordell

Could nations attack each other to prevent AGI development or sharing? - RAND Corporation

Averting a Robot Catastrophe - RAND Corporation

Rick Perry: “Donald. J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus” will use nukes, natural gas, and one other thing I can't remember , - The Washington Post

AI-Generated Influencers Are Gaining Real Fans - Hacker Noon

The Columbia University Fertility Center used AI to find viable sperm in an infertile man, offering new hope of biological parenthood for those experiencing severe male infertility. - The Washington Post

Swarms of tiny nose robots to clear infected sinuses, researchers say - the Guardian

Engineer creates ad-block for the real world with augmented reality glasses — no more products or branding in your everyday life - Tom's Hardware

AI Phone Agent Realizes it is Talking to a Parrot - Reddit

It’s gonna be OK Gemini you’re just having a bad day

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