AI Reading for Monday May 19
After Karen Hao's first story on OpenAI in 2020, they wouldn't talk to her for 3 years. - MIT Technology Review
How OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini Models Are Revolutionizing Visual Analysis and Coding - Unite.AI
Sam Altman says critics of Trump's AI deals with Gulf nations are 'naive' - Business Insider
Why Apple Still Hasn’t Cracked AI - Bloomberg
Dario Amodei profile, how he transformed from an academic into the CEO of a $61 billion startup. - Bloomberg
At Computex, Nvidia opens NVLink to 3rd-party hardware manufacturers. - The Register
Nvidia launches GPU marketplace with one stop shopping for multiple clouds like CoreWeave. - The Wall Street Journal
Nvidia in advanced talks to invest in quantum computing startup PsiQuantum, The Information reports - Reuters
Google's Jeff Dean predicts AI could perform at the level of a junior coder in a year - Business Insider
Sundar Pichai acknowledged competition between the top companies developing AI, but he said they all are "going to do well." - Business Insider
On 60 Minutes, Anduril gave a behind-the-scenes look at its autonomous AI fighter built as a wingman for America's most fearsome aircraft - Business Insider
China deploys world’s biggest fleet of driverless mining trucks. Robot miners seems like a pretty reasonable use case for safety, health, productivity. - South China Morning Post
The AI revolution changing how we predict the weather - Financial Times
AI is coming for call centers - Los Angeles Times
UBS deploys AI analyst clones with Synthesia. Instead of recording a video message blast, they just write the script and send a synthesized version of themselves. - Financial Times
If you take a short note and turn it into this sort of video, does that make it something a client will pay more money for though?
Can I copyright my Midjourney face swaps and other IP questions - CNET
Elton John calls UK government ‘absolute losers’ over AI copyright plans - the Guardian
Microsoft denies claim its AI tech was used by IDF during war to target Gazans - Times of Israel
Grok system instruction says it should be 'extremely skeptical' of mainstream narratives - TechCrunch
Internet is extremely skeptical of self-serving narrative that 'unauthorized' update made it push Holocaust denial and white genocide.
Weird how the myths that get made up and propagated always seem to appeal to a certain portion of the amygdala: great replacement, Eurabia, ghetto ‘no-go’ zones, Irish were slaves too, Jews can’t get COVID, illegal immigrants vote, get free phones and priority over whites in colleges, etc.
Maybe teach it to be a little skeptical of those instead of pushing viral BS? Is it ok to be KKK-curious now? Asians still getting attacked over ‘kung flu’ and anti-China stuff (even if lab leak theory seems 50/50 or at least somewhat plausible at this point)
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