AI Reading for Sunday June 29

Meta is trying to buy the future: “copy OpenAI, try to poach talent, outspend everyone” says Sam Altman - Gizmodo

Meta Hires Four More OpenAI Researchers - The Information

It’s Known as ‘The List’—and It’s Zuck's Secret File of AI Geniuses - The Wall Street Journal

Reminds of the woman in ‘Real Genius’ who had a fetish to sleep with the smartest man in the world.

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Want to Control AI by Crushing ChatGPT's Father - Gizmodo

I give this guy 10 years to be on Shark Tank. - Interesting Engineering

You are not expected to get this reference if you are under 40.

$100M AI signing bonuses seem implausible but $100m total comp with multi-year vesting is plausible - Spyglass

Every CEO needs an AI whisperer now - Business Insider

AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators - France 24

Is AI rewiring our minds? Scientists probe cognitive cost of chatbots - The Washington Post

Kashmir Hill: Why Is ChatGPT Telling Weirdos to Email Me Their Weird Ideas? - The New York Times

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" - Futurism

Can China's MiniMax-M1 AI Topple US Rivals? We Put It to the Test - Decrypt

Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to learn robust models of the world - Gary Marcus Substack

Roy on X: "introducing @cluely. today is the start of a world where you never have to think again. we just killed 9 industries (thread): t.co/DyCzuzauxq%22 / X - X

The Economy Is So Off the Rails That They’re Trying to Figure Out How to Make Ads Specifically Targeted at AI Bots - Futurism

Claude Designer 3.0 : How To Vibe No-Code Your UI Workflow - Geeky Gadgets

Life of an inference request: How LLMs are served efficiently at scale using vLLM, an open-source inference engine designed for serving large language models like Llama 4 - UbiCloud

The Anthropic Bias in Prediction Markets, if you aren't going to survive the apocalypse at all, then there is no point in buying insurance against it from other market participants - Less Wrong

Authors urge book publishers to limit the use of AI, commit to only hire human audiobook narrators and pledge never to release machine-created books. - TechCrunch

Inside the British lab growing a biological computer - Financial Times

Problem at work? You’ll be hearing from my chatbot. A flood of AI-generated complaints means a new kind of unwarranted hassle for HR and customer services - Financial Times

Call center workers are tired of being mistaken for being AI (now do artists) - Bloomberg

Have your AI call my AI, they’ll do lunch

I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn't Terrible - WIRED

Is The Velvet Sundown an AI-generated band? - Mashable

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