AI Reading for Monday November 4

Lovingly Curated by Man And Machine

Perplexity launches an AI-powered election news hub - The Verge

This will certainly prove how well AI deals with a fast-moving story that is a theatre of information operations, with outrage machines hypersensitive to any hint of ‘bias’.

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Consumers are OK to use AI agents if they are transparent, offer fast service, and have a clear escalation path. - ZDNET

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The nascent $11b GPU-backed securities market. - FT

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MIT researchers developed a multi-modal model to understand heterogenous sensor data (vision, actuator status, maybe tactile and auditory feedback) the way LLMs do, to teach robots new skills, and claim 20% improvement in benchmarks. - MIT News

Seems along the same line of thinking as Meta Sparsh and Digit360, and Physical Intelligence, and maybe spatial intelligence, use LLM-style training to build an understandable model of the environment.

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UAE and Microsoft to deploy AI agents to accelerate seismic surveys. Greens say Microsoft's drive for revenue from fossil fuels belies its carbon neutral claims. - Yahoo Finance

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AI boom will increase e-waste. - IEEE Spectrum

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SK Hynix HBM4 schedule accelerated at Nvidia's request, stock pops. - CNBC

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China's DeepRoute.ai raises $100 million to put autonomous in 200,000 cars in 2025, to be integrated in 10-15 models from manufacturers including Geely and Mercedes - Yahoo Finance

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AI That Can Invent AI Is Coming. Buckle Up. - Forbes

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Polish radio station abandons use of AI 'presenters' after outcry - AP News

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AI chatbots are the new priests. - Yahoo Tech

Alternatively, you can chat with Digital Ray Dalio - PrinciplesYou.com

Same idea, different cult.

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Meta working on an AI adult classifier. Many adult males I know will probably get rated as 12-year-olds. - Bloomberg

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Smells Like Machine Spirit: AI For Creating Scents & Smells

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Some fun 80s-style logos for modern tech companies - Instagram

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