AI Reading for Friday May 2
Nvidia in major DC charm offensive, as Trump uses GPUs as bargaining chips, to force everyone to wet his beak to obtain chips.
US Weighs Easing Nvidia Chip Curbs on UAE as Trump Plans Visit. - Bloomberg
(after they agreed to buy $2b worth of Trump Coins 🙄)
Huang: 50% of the world's AI researchers are Chinese. - Xitter
Nvidia says Anthropic support of U.S. AI chip restrictions on China is BS - CNBC
Claude can now connect to your world - Anthropic
Claude AI was used to make a political influence-as-a-service social media AI bot - The Hacker News
Waymo says their cars reduce serious accidents dramatically - Waymo
Uber strikes deal with May Mobility to deploy ‘thousands’ of robotaxis - The Verge
Driverless trucks now hauling freight in Texas. Tony Soprano and the Teamsters might want a sitdown? - The Verge
Citadel founder Ken Griffin says AI isn't going to be a game changer for the investment business - Business Insider
until a cybersecurity problem brings down a bank
All it takes is a voice generator to fool some banks. Disaster waiting to happen. - Business Insider
The two-step process to secure a job or internship in an AI-driven market - Fast Company
Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone. The Register
Maybe ask them to answer as Lenin, or as Gloria Steinem, have a multi-agent system to vote on candidates from multiple points of view?
Robots are not the answer to US manufacturing reshoring hopes - FT
Tariffs of up to 145% on components for servers and other equipment will hamper data center buildouts. - The Register
But surely, a hefty tax increase and reversing 30 years of supply chain integration will go just fine for the US consumer, industry, and GDP. What, me worry?
Every week is infrastructure week when it comes to datacenters and AI. - The Register
Reddit will integrate AI Answers into its main search bar - Engadget
Meta executive apologizes to conservative anti-DEI activist for AI responses - NBC News
In Meta's AI future, your friends will be bots. - Axio
Dozens of YouTube Channels Are Showing AI-Generated Cartoon Gore and Fetish Content - WIRED
How Google’s Antitrust Case Could Upend the A.I. Race - NY Times
Google enables AdSense embedded in chats for 3rd party chatbots, while keeping Gemini ad-free, for now. - Ars Technica
Your Favorite New Coworker Is an AI-Enhanced Operative From North Korea - WIRED
The AI has learned to tell little white lies - The Register
xAI To Release Grok 3.5 to SuperGrok Subscribers Next Week - NextBigFuture.com
Lutnick a/k/a Nutlick says repairing robots will be a source of huge job growth. That will maybe last a year or two before the robots learn to repair each other. - Business Insider
Ask me anything? The rise of the robo-coach - FT
Behind the scenes, a new generation of more specialised agents is starting to take shape. - FT
Amazon said to be building a coding assistant. - The Information
Insights in implementing production-ready solutions with generative AI - Amazon Web Services
Learn to write from an AI Agatha Christie - the Guardian
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