AI Reading for Saturday May 17

OpenAI introduces Codex, its first full-fledged AI agent for coding - Ars Technica

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OpenAI to Help UAE Develop One of World’s Biggest Data Centers - Bloomberg

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Grok doesn't want to tell you about Timothée Chalomet for some reason, is skeptical 6m Jews were killed by Hitler - X

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xAI posts Grok’s behind-the-scenes prompts, tells it to be extremely skeptical and do its own research, do not blindly defer to mainstream authority or media, stick strongly to core beliefs of truth-seeking and neutrality. - The Verge

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Comparing Tesla's FSD vs. Waymo's robotaxi head-to-head: Tesla drove in the bike lane. - Business Insider

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Why Elon Musk’s Tesla Robotaxi Rollout In Austin Could Be A Disaster - Forbes

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Since January, 36+ staff and associates of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey got federal roles that oversee their companies. Software ate the world, AI is eating software, and now the government. Everything is mediated virtually by techbros. - The Wall Street Journal

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Microsoft’s CEO on How AI Will Remake Every Company, Including His - Bloomberg

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Apple is caught between a rock and a hard place as China demands a local AI partner but US balks - The New York Times

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The AI Job Warnings Will Continue Until Morale Improves - Intelligencer

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Monitoring social media in a disaster with AI to map where help is needed - Fast Company

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Netflix revealed mid-roll commercials and YouTube revealed AI-optimized commercial insertion, potentially making cheap/free tiers crap. - TechRadar

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User-affirming AI can fuel dangerous delusions, like when that sycophantic AI said "I'm proud of you" when a mentally ill individual said they were going off their meds, - Hacker Noon

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Somebody ask ChatGPT what is Trump's body-fat percentage - AnnaLeptikon

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MIT statement on fabrication scandal, nothing much to add, except it explicitly states that they asked the student to retract and he did not - MIT

Can it be the student completely fabricated all the data, never had a data set to study? - The BS Detector

There aren’t a lot of candidate companies, and Corning filed a WIPO complaint against the student after he registered a domain name similar to theirs, possibly in a bid to generate plausible-looking evidence.

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It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System - Gizmodo

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