AI Reading for Saturday May 11

Apple nears deal with OpenAI for iOS integration in the new Siri, Google might still be in contention. - Bloomberg

Apple expected to relaunch Siri at WWDC. Won’t ship then if they are just finalizing deals now. - NY Times

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OpenAI schedules a livestream on Monday, says it’s not search or GPT-5. You have my curiosity and my attention. - Ars Technica

More SearchGPT rumors. - FavTutor Articles

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AI speakers at Bloomberg’s tech conference. Maybe we overestimate the impact of AI in the short run but underestimate the impact in the long run? - Bloomberg

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A Putin biopic with AI and CGI. Could we not? - The Hollywood Reporter

AI film festival suggests it's going mainstream despite misgivings. - VentureBeat

Russian network pushes thousands of AI articles. "Please rewrite this article taking a conservative stance against the liberal policies of the Macron administration in favour of working-class French citizens." - The Economist

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Waymo is up to 50,000 paid driverless rides per week. - The Information

Adversarial attack makes autonomous vehicles blow through stop signs. - The Register

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Sam Altman's SMR fission startup goes public via SPAC. According to ChatGPT their reactors are smaller than NuScale, use more concentrated fuel, don't use water cooling. - AOL

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Paris deploys AI surveillance ahead of Taylor Swift concerts and the Olympics. Says no facial recognition FWIW. - euronews

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SoftBank pivots hard to AI. - Bloomberg

(after losing > $20b on stuff like WeWork, FTX, Zume, Katerra, Oyo)

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Bumble founder said some weird AI dating stuff. - NBC News

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Las Vegas Sphere has vague plans for a new show with AI. 8NewsNow

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The Weird World of AI Voice Replicas. - The Atlantic

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Elon Musk says that as AI buildout continues, the fraction of the world's intelligence that is human will decline. So, we have that going for us, which is nice. - euronews

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This guy says that just as we don't necessarily consider plants sentient because they move and react so slowly, AI might not consider humans sentient. - Twitter

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AI can be strategically lying POS when it wants to. - ScienceAlert

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Dexterous, indestructible robot hand demonstrated. - YouTube

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CEO of mega ad agency WPP targeted, ultimately unsuccessfully, in wild deepfake scam - New York Post

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Well who among us couldn't use a 24h AI himbo hype man? - Twitter

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