AI Reading for Friday October 18
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The bloom is off the rose in the Altman-Nadella bromance. - NY Times
Aside from being mad about the Suleyman situation, sounds like maybe Altman messed up and didn't lock in a most-favored-nation clause saying they will always get the lowest current compute rates MS offers any customer. Renegotiating compute prices in the middle of the contract shouldn't be a thing. The equity question and transition to for-profit sounds complicated. Getting to AGI might be easier than fixing a messed up set of founding agreements.
ChatGPT Topped 3 Billion Visits in September, #11 most visited Web destination - Similarweb
Rumors of big ChatGPT and Claude updates soon - Tom's Guide
ChatGPT now has a native Windows version - The Verge
OpenAI and others trying to license movie/video content from Hollywood studios, but big deals are elusive. - Miami Herald
AI Filmmaking Guide: Your Ultimate Guide to Cinematic Masterpieces - Geeky Gadgets
Opt-out is BS, we don't normally have to wear a sign that says, don't pickpocket me, or be subject to a wallet-ectomy everywhere we go. - the Guardian
TSMC catches a probe over leaky sanctions. - The Information
TSMC is too big to fail, you can't exactly sanction them and Taiwan and say, no iPhones and no Intel SOCs. If they are less than 100% cooperative in a trade war with China in which they are the ones on the front lines, all the US can really do is jawbone them through bilateral channels.
AI as a 'caucus mediator' to enable large groups to discuss and explore preferences for complex policies. - TechXplore
AI, cryptocurrencies and data privacy: Comparing the Trump and Harris records on technology regulation - The Conversation
Best AI bet is ‘Picks and Shovels,’ data center investor DigitalBridge’s Ganzi Says - Bloomberg
Blumhouse Productions further reinforces its creative decline with abhorrent AI/Meta partnership. - Culturess
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An uncensored companion AI that can reveal complex, sometimes dark thought patterns. - WIRED
Enterprise RAG is big on Wall Street with Rogo, Mako, hybrid internal search products. - Business Insider
Google moves Gemini to DeepMind, mobile AI assistant to platforms group. - Yahoo Finance
Google's adds AI new features to its buzzy NotebookLM podcast tool - ZDNET
‘WorldCoin’ is now just ‘World’. VoidCoin’ is tired, ‘VoidAI’ is so wired right now - SiliconANGLE
SwannShield Introduces a Video Doorbell With AI Question Answering - CNET
Meet the 'Eyebot': An AI-Powered, 90-Second Vision Test - CNET
Treasury Department now using AI to save taxpayers billions - Yahoo News
Benioff slams Copilot. Copilot has underwhelmed but the potential is still there. - Windows Central
Funny stuff going on? Just upload all your logs to the LLM and ask it what went awry - X (formerly Twitter)
Pentagon seeks bids to create deepfake social media profiles undetectable by humans and computers, to 'gather information'. - American Military News
Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUST (2019) - YouTube
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