AI Reading for Saturday April 5
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2025's new favorite emoji - Fast Company
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Is it too early/late for sad traders?
UK Proposes AI Copyright Reform with Opt-Out Model - MEDIANAMA
'f u Mark, pay me'
Ghiblification and potato chips. - FT
You can't make a Pringles can designed to profit from their trademark. Although Andy Warhol might have some thoughts. Could you sell a machine that can copy any trade dress? Like a Xerox? The issues are harder than simple analogies but if we want art and creativity and intellectual property, we have to think hard about them. Chip analogy might crumble when applied to a bot that answers questions based on FT content, but generically without imitating the FT.
OpenAI says it will release more models with confusing names before GPT-5. - TechCrunch
Midjourney v7 launches with voice prompting and faster draft mode, incremental update gets mixed reviews - VentureBeat
Llama-4 nears release - Yahoo
Suleyman hypes Copilot upgrades - Big Technology
32% Taiwan tariffs problematic for TSMC, Nvidia - The Verge
AI is changing radiology - Washington Post
“if I’m the average radiologist — and most people are average — when you use AI, you become an expert. Who benefits from that? The patients.”
Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers in high school - TechCrunch
Glean looking to raise at $7b valuation on $100m revenue run rate. - The Information
Berkeley lab deploys 100 robocars on a highway to help smooth traffic. - The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
AI Model Can Predict When Lightning Will Spark Wildfires - Yale e360
Storing prompts in databases without version control can lead to problems. - Hacker Noon
intern makes a database update and your production tech support robot starts quoting Taylor Swift.
Aon is one of a growing number of companies using AI to screen job applicants. It’s efficient, but is it discriminatory? - The Daily Dot
Genspark’s Super Agent ups the ante in the general AI agent race - VentureBeat
François Chollet on How Dumb AI Still Is - The Atlantic
NY judges reject presentation by AI avatar - AP News
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