AI Reading for Sunday July 13

Review finds Grok 4 Basic underperforms peers despite $30 price, while $300 Heavy version tops benchmarks - Decrypt

SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk’s xAI, which is a bit sketchy. - The Wall Street Journal

Hello KITT! Tesla debuts hands-free Grok AI with update 2025.26. - TESLARATI/

AI boom helped save the chip industry. What happens if it turns to bust? - Fortune Asia

AI startups believe Google’s Chrome is vulnerable to a new wave of intelligent browsers - Fortune

Some charts from trillion-parameter open Kimi K2, claimed competitive with Opus 4 - X

China’s AI glasses market takes shape as Xiaomi’s $278, 12MP entry inspires early adopters - South China Morning Post

Mechanize claims they will create a GPT-3 moment for RL - Mechanize Inc.

Shades of Sutton and Silver's Age of Experience. AI gonna track everything you do and train on it, and no limits to how well your digital twin can imitate you.

When AI impressed 30 of the world's top mathematicians at secret meeting in California - Live Science

Teams of agents that are scalable, cooperative, adaptable, and heterogenous can be super-powerful - Forbes

We are all automation engineers now - The New Stack

Promiscuity replaces loyalty among developers, free vanishes in favor of subscriptions, as AI IDEs and assistants proliferate - RedMonk

If human workers don’t have to read, write, or even think, it’s unclear what’s left for them to do. - The New Yorker

Benioff says AI is 'radical augmentation' of the workforce, not replacement, has nevertheless cut hiring. - Business Insider

Maybe AI regulation should focus on preventing specific harms. - Financial Times

Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used - Ars Technica

KC-area hospital sues Blue KC, says AI-powered insurance denials ignored doctors - Kansas City Star

Denying Coverage with AI: CMS’s New Medicare Model - cepr.net

73% of GenZ report having followed or spoken with a virtual influencer without recognizing that they weren’t a real person. - Hacker Noon

AI dating assistants like Rizz boom among Gen Z, boosting confidence but raising authenticity concerns - CBS News

AI companions are reinforcing singlehood among Chinese women, deepening demographic challenges. Hard to compete with a battery powered boyfriend that even listens to you? - Firstpost

AI in fashion: avatars, digital twins, and IP issues - Financial Times

Experts worry AI-enabled toys could erode children’s creativity and social skills - Psychology Today

AI research exploring how humans could speak with pets – and what could go wrong - The Independent

VideoWe Got 100% Real-Time Playable AI Generated GTA Before GTA 6? - Reddit

Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series - Scientific American

I wrote a rant about an urban AI myth, chatbots that snitch your chats to competitors. - Druce.ai

No one is coming to save us. We are The Room. And it's just going to get stupider.

In the words of the late Pope Francis: “We are not living an era of change but a change of era.” - Financial Times

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