AI Reading for Monday June 23

OpenAI's Future May Be At Risk in Microsoft Rift - Futurism

OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman says vibe coding has taken away some of the fun parts of being an engineer - Business Insider

OpenAI scrubs news of Jony Ive deal amid trademark dispute - Business Insider

The rise of Alexandr Wang: Metas $14bn bet on 28-year-old Scale AI chief - Financial Times

With Scale acquired by Meta, Uber pushes its data labeling gig worker platform - Cointelegraph

Tesla launches robotaxi service with 10 vehicles for invite-only riders in geo-fenced parts of Austin, with human safety drivers, - The Verge

Tesla launches robotaxi service in Austin - Financial Times

Elon Musk wants to Grok to rewrite all human knowledge because far right says it's too woke - Business Insider

willing to lose $2b a month to control the narrative with propaganda. and the CCP is bad, because they censor Tiananmen Square talk, and faceless secret police bundle people into cars, or something.

Is Perplexity a $14 Billion AI Google Killer, or a Thin Wrapper on Others’ LLMs? - Gizmodo

Perplexity’s new AI features are a game changer. - Fast Company

Perplexity's AI-powered browser opens up to select Windows users - Engadget

Perplexity’s AI chatbot can now generate videos on X: Here’s how to use it - The Indian Express

MIT researchers say using ChatGPT can rot your brain. The truth is a little more complicated - The Conversation

AI Agents Make Humans More Productive, MIT Researchers Say. Robots don't ask how your weekend was. - Bloomberg Law

The role of the University is to resist AI - danmcquillan.org

Inside Disney’s Campaign to Protect Darth Vader From AI - Bloomberg

A former Disney exec says peak TV is over, and there's only so much AI can do to help - Business Insider

A.I. Computing Power Is Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots - The New York Times

The AIpocalypse is here for web sites as search referrals plunge - The Register

A.I. Sludge Has Entered the Job Search - The New York Times

Why we’re measuring AI success all wrong—and what leaders should do about it - Fast Company

Startups try to scale with AI, making revenue per employee the new holy grail - Bloomberg

Intel Plans to Replace Its Marketing Employees With AI - 80 Level

Weird AI robots answer calls to Iran - AP News

Reddit floats using Orb blockchain-based eye scanner to verify you are human, without needing to ID yourself. - Semafor

China tightens internet controls with new centralized form of virtual ID | CNN Business - CNN

Adobe launched LLM Optimizer, a tool to help businesses improve their visibility and ranking on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, potentially reducing the need for traditional SEO experts. - TechRadar

TPU Deep Dive - Henryhmko GitHub

LinkedIn’s CEO Has Advice to Help AI-Proof Your Career - Bloomberg

LinkedIn CEO admits using AI to sound smarter in emails to Satya Nadella, says LinkedIn users don't use the integrated AI tools to write as much as expected.

Nearly half of UK investors turn to social media for financial information. Does growth in AI and influencers come at expense of regulated advice? - Financial Times

YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 - Gizmodo

AI golf caddie carries your clubs and analyzes your swing - TechRadar

Will pair well with your AR glasses to tell you where to aim your putt. - Reddit

One Stretch robot that DHL staff named ‘Johnny 5’ unloads around 580 cases an hour from a truck, almost twice the rate of a human unloader. - WSJ

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