AI Reading for Saturday June 7

Sam Altman calls for ‘AI privilege’ as OpenAI faces order to retain temporary and deleted ChatGPT sessions. Should talking to an AI chatbot be protected and privileged information, like talking to a doctor or lawyer? - VentureBeat

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. OpenAI plans to integrate ChatGPT and other AI tools into every aspect of an AI-first college life. - The New York Times

An OpenAI exec says she was diagnosed with breast cancer and that ChatGPT has helped her navigate it - Business Insider

Well-known ML author Andriy Burkov says his OpenAI account was canceled, says he doesn't know why. - X

Inside the Secret Berkeley Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart OpenAi's Latest Math Model - Scientific American

Elon Musk’s feud with Donald Trump muddies xAI's attempted \$5b debt issuance via Morgan Stanley - Financial Times

Lots of memes - Gizmodo

Tesla seeks to block city of Austin from releasing records on robotaxi trial - Reuters

Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot head leaves company to 'spend more time with family' - Bloomberg

AI can read everything on the Internet but using it for immigration decision-making introduces concerns about bias, data security, and explainability. - Forbes

Running an AI tool on a bunch of contracts and then canceling them without further review seems like a bad idea, even for a tech genius. - Ars Technica

Looking at the prompts used to cancel contracts. - ProPublica

Seems like a classic AI disaster. Problems included bad data, feeding it old versions of contracts, outdated models, incomplete contract text analysis, hallucinated contract values, and vague instructions that forced the AI to make unsupported judgments. (resharing from yesterday)

Lot of Walter Whites out there - Reddit

Google is beginning to test AI Mode’s new “Search Live” experience. Powered by Project Astra (just like Gemini Live), it lets you have a real-time conversation with Google. - 9to5Google

Google Gemini can now handle scheduled tasks like an assistant - The Verge

Meta's platforms showed hundreds of "nudify" deepfake ads, CBS News investigation reports, Meta says they have now removed them. - CBS News

Ukraine's soldiers are giving robots guns and grenade launchers to fire at the Russians in ways even 'the bravest infantry' can't. - Business Insider

Robot, Teach Thyself! via reinforcement learning - ACM Communications

For many tasks, open-source models dominate closed-source, producing better results at lower cost. - Sutro

Latest ElevenLabs TTS model dropped - ElevenLabs

Sweet-talking AI voice agents claimed to boost sales 15% - VentureBeat

Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on Hollywood, copyright, and the future of filmmaking - The Verge

Vibe check: Amazon chooses Cursor - Business Insider

I Read All Of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits. A big, complex, open-source release was coded mostly with AI. - Max Mitchell

Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client. - TensorZero

Makes you wonder how big a moat they have if they are recycling Microsoft's VS Code UI, maybe adding some LSP stuff to parse your code, then pointing at LLMs with some prompts that are relatively easy to extract and duplicate. Big enough for Amazon anyway.

England’s High Court Warns Lawyers to Stop Citing Fake A.I.-Generated Cases (or go to jail) - The New York Times

Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund - Ars Technica

How a Proposed Moratorium on State AI Rules Could Affect You - CNET

Cyber crime is surging. Will AI make it worse? - Financial Times

AI risks 'broken' career ladder for college graduates, some experts say - ABC News

AI startups have faster burn rates and reach cash flow positive later than SaaS startups did - www.saastr.com

Sometimes AI startups achieve product-market fit and growth stage so fast, they lack processes and controls to expand efficiently. - TechCrunch

Can AI do brand strategy? - Hacker Noon

The Psychology of AI's Impact on Human Cognition - Psychology Today

Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity? - The Conversation

What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works. Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word. - The Atlantic

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna worried that "superhumans" were "a real concern" if wealthy people were allowed to have chips implanted in their brains. Also, if the U.S. did not invent the first AI super weapon, then another country would "control the world." - Raw Story

Walmart Goes Big With Drone Delivery Expansion - WIRED

LLM Eval FAQ - Hamel's Blog

When an athlete missing an arm asks for an image of her, it erases the disability. - TIME

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