AI Reading for Saturday May 31

Anthropic emerges as an adversary to Trump’s AI regulation moratorium, Gulf deals - Semafor

Anthropic reaches $3B ARR - Reuters

Seth Rogen got a future gig lined up.

Google and DOJ argue over how AI will remake the web in antitrust closing arguments - Ars Technica

Google Search Judge Zeroes In on AI Power as Trial Approaches Conclusion - Bloomberg

Justice Department Says Remedies in Google Antitrust Case Should Consider AI Tools, help competitors like OpenAI like providing search API access, limiting integration/cross-promation of Gemini - PYMNTS.com

Google is going ‘all in’ on vertically integrating every part of the AI supply chain, hardware to models to data to apps. - The Conversation

OpenAI Can Stop Pretending (it's not hell-bent on world domination as the next Big Tech platform company, as opposed to pursuing safe AGI) - The Atlantic

OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be a ‘super assistant’ for every part of your life according to internal strategy document exposed in lawsuit - The Verge

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans - The New York Times

Karen Hao argues that the alliance between Big Tech & the US government is a threat to democracy. The Republican tax bill now up in the Senate, which would ban states from regulating AI for a decade, will only cement that trajectory. - The New York Times

Centralized Big Tech AI threatens a democratic digital future - Cointelegraph

Previous open source DeepSeek model didn't censor many questions if you ran it on your computer. But the app they released added a safety layer on top of the model that blocked e.g. Tienanmen questions. Now, it seems the open weights are nerfed. - Cointelegraph

Looking forward to the full LMArena evals of new Claude models (already leader on webdev coding), and new DeepSeek.

MAHA report's nonsense citations and AI fingerprints, annotated - The Washington Post

Tesla’s Robotaxi Could Self-Drive Your Faith in Autonomous Cars Right Off a Cliff - Gizmodo

Musk Lobbies Washington to Ease Regs for Self-Driving Cars - Bloomberg

Watchdog demos Tesla ignoring school bus stop lights, running over dummy kids. - The Register

Mary Meeker's mega 340-page AI report - Bond Capital

ElevenLabs updates toolkit for enterprise conversational voice apps - VentureBeat

Nvidia, Dell partner to build DoE supercomputer … although those Rubin chips aren't even out yet - The Register

Dell is starting to get a lot of AI server orders, reports $14b backlog - The Register

New version of Flux released, Flux.1 Kontext understands text and images for in-context editing and style transfer and whatnot - TechCrunch

Amazon appears to be building a home automation device that has AI computer vision - GeekWire

Andreessen Horowitz in Deal Talks Valuing Abridge medical note-taking AI at $5.3 Billion - Bloomberg

Buzzy startup Superpower is making another acquisition to power its AI doctor app - Business Insider

About $50 / month gets regular testing, monitoring and recommendations.

Writing code is easy, fully automating software engineering is hard. - Mechanize Inc.

Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents - The Register

Barclays buys 100K Copilot seats from Microsoft - The Register

Expedia's marketing chief on preparing for a future when people use AI to plan their vacations. - Business Insider

Robot dog navigates parkour courses - YouTube

AI helps read an ancient damaged scroll - Earth.com

AI summaries, getting it wrong differently but confidently every time - OS2 Museum

Barron Trump did not debate Jasmine Crockett - Snopes

I dunno, the lizard people look pretty real to me - Reddit

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