AI Reading for Monday September 9

Apple 'Glowtime' recap. New slimmer watch, new iPods that can act as hearing aids, new iPhones with new buttons, better everything and lots of AI features. - The Verge

I have a 4-year-old iPhone so I will almost certainly upgrade, but I might wait to see if iOS 18 and new iPhones underwhelm or are buggy. It's a big upgrade so it should entice a lot of people.

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Slow rollout of Apple AI features could moderate and extend the iPhone upgrade supercycle. - BGR

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Gurman says 'don't buy the hype', and he knows more than me, but I guess I'm in the camp of, don't believe until you see it but Apple has a good track record and seems more likely to execute than not, couple months wait for a software update won't sway diehards. - Benzinga

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MacOS AI update coming next week as release candidate has been seeded to devs. - TechCrunch

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Enterprises rush to spend on pie-in-the-sky AI projects, basic IT infrastructure sinks under tech debt. - The Register

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Reflection gets a lot of hype that it runs on a laptop and is better than GPT-4o (at some cherry picked hallucination benchmark), but the word fraud is being thrown about - VentureBeat

It’s kind of important to upload the right weights if you are claiming you beat GPT-4o.

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If it says it's AI, people will just do anything it says. - The Engineer

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A look at the Zed AI-first development environment. - Geeky Gadgets

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Investors fall into 3 categories, innovators, imitators, and idiots. - Business Insider

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Robots need to learn the simplicity beyond the complexity. - MIT Technology Review

Soccer is about negative space. It's not about where the person and the ball are, it's about finding a dangerous space you can send a ball into that your teammate can get to and the opponent cannot.

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An interview with Anthropic's chief product officer. - The Verge

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Deepfakes, deepfakes, everywhere. - CFO Dive

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Eitan Michael Azoff wrote a book on neuroscience and the pursuit of AGI. - The US Sun

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AI's impact on warfare. - Responsible Statecraft

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CIA and MI6 heads wrote in FT Opinion about using gen AI to combat adversaries' gen AI and other persistent threats. - The Register

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Is writing to teach AI how to write the last puff on the discarded cigarette butt of journalism? - the Guardian

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WSJ xAI has discussed a licensing deal with Tesla and told investors it will be a key technology partner to Tesla, which seems like a possible conflict of interest / cashectomy for the benefit of Musk and partners. Musk Xeeted that he hasn't read the article but denies it. TSLA was down 8.5% Friday. - WSJ

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Musk's new computer is table stakes, grid can't supply it enough power leading to allegations of unauthorized gas turbines. - Business Insider

You think Microsoft and OpenAI don’t have this much compute?

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The sadness of AI boyfriends - The Critic Magazine

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Suno and Udio Have a New Challenger: Melodio AI Music Generator - AI Tools Club

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Using Claude's Projects, which Anthropic released a couple of months ago as their answer to custom GPTs. - Fast Company

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Mushroom learns to move itself toward the light using robot legs. Definitely not the opening scene to a horror movie. - The Independent

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“My Entire Family Was In Hospital” after relying on AI-generated mushroom book from 'major online retailer'. - Bored Panda

Kind of a clickbait rehash of a Reddit thread.

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Waymo robotaxis drive down Uber numbers in SF. - The Register

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Sora in limbo as OpenAI courts Hollywood - THE DECODER

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ESPN's AI recap of a soccer game fails to mention its biggest significance as legend Alex Morgan’s final game. Sort of as if it covered Michael Jordan's big return to the Bulls like any other game. - Awful Announcing

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I LOLed - Reddit

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