AI Reading for Monday April 22

Portfolio managers embrace AI. - The Globe and Mail

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Private equity loves power, grid and AI infrastructure projects. - Yahoo Finance

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Altman invests in clean-energy startup that plans to offer solar power to data centers at 1c/kWh using 'heat batteries'. - WSJ

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OpenAI tops a list of highest-funded AI companies. - Infogram

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As of most recent update, OpenAI assistants improve native retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), let you upload files as type ‘file_search’ (in addition to ‘code_interpreter’) and explicitly create vector stores. - OpenAI Twitter

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Data journalism with AI, using LLMs to load lots of data. ask questions about it, and visualize it. - Simon Willison

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Amazon lawsuit says management directed AI scientist to ignore copyrights and in-house legal guidelines to get models working. - The Register

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Zuck doesn't want AI to end up a walled garden, like Facebook (and iPhone and Google mobile apps). - Analytics India Magazine

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Audio AI device sits on your ears. - Axios

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AI gives wrong answers about EU elections. - POLITICO

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AI robots could eliminate chemical weed-killers. - Innovation Origins

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Amazon has deployed over 750,000 robots to work alongside its 1.5 million employees. - Yahoo Finance

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AI in a smart stethoscope could identify heart problems. - Rochester Post Bulletin

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Bostrom’s Deep Utopia. What happens when AI can do most of what humans do? Even best-case scenarios are unsettling. - Robin Hanson

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The dumbest news via Grok, like NYC mayor ordering NYPD to shoot the earthquake. - Gizmodo

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Using Sora to imagine the future of TED talks, which apparently might be motion-sickness-inducing. TED Twitter

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AI-themed Paris Hilton ad. ZOMG what did I just watch? - YouTube

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