AI Reading for Sunday February 9

The AI coup and the singularity

The AI techbro coup? - Tech Policy Press

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The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army - WIRED

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We're living in Plato's cave, if the shadows were the product of billionaire hand puppetry and shithousery - The Atlantic

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Tim O'Reilly: The End of Programming as We Know It - O’Reilly Media

And of course Altman said an o3 type model will dominate all competitive coders later this year. - Reddit

Frontier AI systems can self-replicate and self-improve. Bonjour, singularity? - arXiv.org

o3 and DeepSeek and ‘deep research’ will really supercharge people doing advanced stuff with AI this year.

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'Augmented Intelligence': Christie’s Reveals First Auction Dedicated to AI Art - Decrypt

The unbearable emptiness of AI art - livescience.com

It’s Ok to Love Something, Discover It’s AI, and Then Hate It - Fstoppers

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DeepSeek passing Gemini in Web traffic. Sundar Pichai is like, WTF. - TechRadar

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Hank Azaria on his journey and what AI might mean for a new generation of artists.

"soon enough, artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the sounds of the more than 100 voices I created for characters on “The Simpsons” over almost four decades. It makes me sad to think about it. Not to mention, it seems just plain wrong to steal my likeness or sound — or anyone else’s."

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Meta has an AI that will predict what you type before you hit the keys, using a giant brain MRI - MIT Technology Review

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An AI ski instructor with sensor in your boots? - Tom's Guide

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Italian Entrepreneurs, Fashion Businesspeople Targeted in Deepfake AI Scam Scheme. Impersonated defense minister asking for shady help, somebody wired €1m - Yahoo Life

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Researchers used AI to invent self-healing concrete that may help stop potholes - BGR

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Execs at consulting firms on how they use AI personally www.businessinsider.com/ai-chiefs-to... Most of them make me want to hire a high schooler instead of a big consulting firm. - Business Insider

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Power availability expected to bottleneck datacenters. Probably one reason why hyperscalers rush to spend hundreds of billions in 2025 while they can still connect to power. - The Register

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Palantir’s ‘revolving door’ with government spurs huge growth

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Don’t be rude to ChatGPT. tough but fair - Reddit

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AI to help 911 operators - Hacker Noon

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Pickle lets you create AI-generated body doubles that can sit on Zoom calls while you’re somewhere else. - BGR

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A 4-legged robot as fast as Usain Bolt - BGR

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Scientists Create a Material as Strong as Steel but Light as Styrofoam Using AI - ZME Science

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14 Phrases That Make It Extremely Obvious A Person Used ChatGPT - YourTango

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When AI misses the forest for the trees, or the elephant in the room, or the gorilla - Chiraag Gohel

Attention is all you need - YouTube

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