AI Reading for Friday May 9

AI goes to Washington

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other US tech leaders testify to Congress on AI competition with China - AP News

AI execs offer Senate testimony, want electric grid upgrades, software talent, clear export polices, data acccess, light regulation and definitely not government pre-approval to release AI models - VentureBeat

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Silicon Valley Is Coming for the Pentagon’s $1 Trillion Budget - Bloomberg

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Fired IRS agents will be replaced with AI, says Treasury Sec - The Register

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xAI looking to raise $20b at $120b valuation to pay down Twitter debt, maybe scale Colossus yet another 10x - NY Times

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Anthropic rolls out flat high-usage-tier pricing for Claude Code - Anthropic

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Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro Tops Coding Charts and IQ Tests - Decrypt

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Alex Ghiculescu on rolling out AI coding assistants Cursor and Claude Code to a team of 40 developers working on a mature Ruby on Rails SaaS product, finding that 20% productivity gains are possible when these tools are well integrated into workflows. - Alex Ghiculescu

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ChatGPT seems to be showing some people other people's uploaded images - Reddit

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Google's latest Gemini 2.5 update has broken content filter settings, causing AI-powered apps for trauma survivors, such as those assisting with sexual assault reports, to block incident reports as unsafe content despite previously set permissions. - The Register

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Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at from brain recordings - New Scientist

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Using AI to accelerate fusion research - Microsoft

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How we're using AI to drive scientific research with greater real-world benefit - Google

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Fine-tune your enterprise’s own version of OpenAI’s o4-mini - VentureBeat

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Google to use on-device Chrome Nano LLM to detect scams - TechCrunch

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Meta Taps New Head of AI Lab - Bloomberg

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Commentary: AI is taking entry-level jobs. Who will train the next generation of workers? - CNA

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AI Is Reshaping the Workplace, but Entry-Level Hires Are Way Ahead of the Game - Inc.

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Why do LLMs have emergent properties? - John D. Cook

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Disney Imagineers resurrect an animatronic Walt Disney with AI. It 'keeps Walt alive in the medium he pioneered' - Yahoo

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Apple Is Developing Specialized Chips for Glasses, New Macs and AI Servers - Bloomberg

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Wall Street thought AI would spark a massive iPhone upgrade cycle. It's looking like the threat of Trump's tariffs did. - Business Insider

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MIT Table Tennis Robot 2024-2025 - YouTube

should play against Google's which looks a bit stronger - Google

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AI and the mechanics of the gluteus maximus in motion per AI Neil deGrasse Tyson - Reddit

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