AI Reading for Saturday March 22
Perplexity in Early Talks for Funding at $18 Billion Value - Bloomberg
Perplexity’s Plan to Take On Google - Bloomberg
Perplexity wants to buy TikTok and open-source its algorithm and add community notes. - The Verge
sounds a bit like the original Musk plan for Twitter, which turned out great. the crony capitalism meter going off the charts. But the sad truth is probably, if you have mega-Big Tech companies, and their software and AI mediating all economic and cultural and political activity, then you de facto end up with a China model with a few people who control the commanding heights determining what is permissible and extracting everyone, and the state heavily involved and keeping rival foreign powers from those commanding heights.
Artificial intelligence learns to reason - Science
Weeks later, Sonnet’s “reasoning” model is struggling with a game designed for children. - Ars Technica
OpenAI / MIT RCT Study Finds Links Between ChatGPT Use and Loneliness (gift link) - Bloomberg
Assigned users to different groups, told some to chat with text models, neutral voice chatbots, empathic chatbots.
Anthropic web search appears to be powered by Brave Search. - TechCrunch
Lee Kai-Fu's 01.ai pivots to DeepSeek from building Yi models, which were high on the leaderboards for a while. Staying on top is hard, even if you led Google China. - South China Morning Post
Apple catches consumer protection class action lawsuits over Apple Intelligence, Siri delays - TechRepublic
After saying useful quantum was 20 years away, Jensen Huang says he was wrong and opens his own quantum lab - The Indian Express
Google’s improving Gmail’s search with AI, taking most frequent activity into account - The Verge
Cloudflare builds an AI to make life hell for other AIs - The Register
ChatGPT as a force multiplier for the clinically insane - McGill Office for Science and Society
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