AI Reading for Saturday April 12
How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse - NY Times
2 books on how Nvidia became the driving force behind the AI revolution. - FT
Super impressive guy.
What it means to be an AI-augmented leader - Fast Company
If an enterprise uses Azure, Teams and Office 365, using OpenAI in Azure cloud is pretty similar from a cybersecurity standpoint, if you trust MSFT cloud with your crown jewels in messaging, not a big leap to messaging a chatbot in same cloud. A new Google Cloud relationship is a much bigger leap.
I wonder if they will be available in AWS Bedrock. Azure's OpenAI deal presumably locks Gemini out of Azure but who knows.
Transformative Applications Of AI In Cybersecurity - Forbes
DOGE wants to build a mega API for all IRS data - WIRED
Netflix Tests OpenAI-powered AI Search Engine to Recommend Shows, Movies - Bloomberg
Fintech's Latest Trend: AI Agents For Investment Research - Forbes
A medical AI for disease management - Google Research
Microsoft made an AI for using a debugger, but it falls far short of human debuggers. - Ars Technica
AI hallucinated code suggestions risk 'slopsquatting' - The Register
Barbiecore trend is turning everyone into a doll, similar to the action figure grend, and the internet is loving it - Soap Central
Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs. - CNBC
So much for Americans building phones and chips I guess. OK, so Apple Store prices will not go up 50% or something. But seems like most stuff in Best Buy will? Assuming customs is able to collect which they apparently may not be on short notice?
Just feels like Americans are not going to tolerate all their Nintendos and TVs and accessories and clothes going up that much. Also feels like global trade is gigantic compared to the 1920s after all the integration and globalization and it will collapse. Globalization running in reverse is kind of a recipe for global recession or stagflation at best. Like injecting bleach and disinfectant into the world economy’s veins.
And even if the US backed down 100%, trust is gone with the US rejecting all the alliances and strategic commitments and multilateral institutions, and people from Europe and Canada getting turned back at immigration for ridiculous reasons.
Sutskever's start-up raises $2bn at $32b valuation despite US economic tumult - FT
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines reportedly raises 'seed' funding target to $2B at > $10b valuation - SiliconANGLE
Turning news into a two-way conversation with AI - Fast Company
Startup tests 100-ton autonomous naval vessel - TechCrunch
ChatGPT was the world’s most downloaded app last month - 9to5Mac
Evals and error analysis are the most important ways to improve AI results - Hamel Husain - Hamel's Blog
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