AI Reading for Sunday June 8

Tech hates tariffs and chaos but they are not breaking with Trump like Musk - The Washington Post

Trump’s Golden Dome pits Silicon Valley against defence giants - Financial Times

Duolingo dun messed up, users are in turmoil over the app’s AI lessons. - Polygon

As Duolingo Turns to AI, Some Users Say Language App Has Joined ‘The Dark Side’. - The 74 Million

Says artificial intelligence has helped it build 150 new courses in a year. But at what cost? Also, even if the AI doesn't screw up spectacularly, just saying the wrong thing about AI can be a corporate AI disaster.

How Duolingo’s AI-First Strategy Lost the Human Touch. Appeared not to put users and employees first or listen to their feedback. - Solutions Review

Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ - Financial Times

How Anthropic teams use Claude Code - www-cdn.anthropic.com

Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude. - diwank.space

Different modes: Playground (experimental), Pair Programming (structured collaboration), and Production Scale (careful orchestration)

Security researcher says CloudFlare's 'vibe-coded' OAuth library is not quite ready for prime time, has vulnerabilities, needs hardening and testing. - Neil Madden

Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10 Billion. - Bloomberg

I don't really get why labeling is such a gigacorn business, but it might be a data business with increasing returns to scale?

Nvidia competitors start to gain traction - Business Insider

“Don't look back, something might be gaining on you”

Apple’s struggles to update Siri lead to investor concerns over AI strategy - Financial Times

A WSJ profile of Amazon’s Panos Panay, who is seems be keeping Alexa+ under wraps until it doesn't suck, and also tying it to a Prime subscription. - The Wall Street Journal

Revenue benchmarks for AI startups - Andreessen Horowitz

Europe’s Mistral benefits from search for artificial intelligence alternatives - Financial Times

Chinese regulators seek to slow rollout of self-driving features in cars over safety concerns - Financial Times

AJI - Artificial Jagged Intelligence - Business Insider

The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles - Simon Willison’s Weblog

LLMs are weak reasoners: Apple paper - Apple Machine Learning Research

Low and no-code startups add AI rebrand as AI vibe-coding startups because that's where the money is. - TechCrunch

AI-powered stop sign cameras - TechCrunch

Elderly Bodily Assistance Robot (E-BAR) helps elderly patients walk, move, get in and out of tub - YouTube

5 dark facts to remember in the face of AI hype. - Fast Company

The purpose of a tech is what it is used for, and AI is not better than people (yet) and will be used to separate a lot of people from meaningful work and enshittify everything, customer service, management, and government.

"The worst case scenario is human extinction" - Bengio on "rogue AI" - YouTube

I guess humans just gonna assemble the AI overlords by hand and shovel coal while the wealth concentrates

~12 videos from LangChain Interrupt conference - YouTube

~50 videos from AI Engineer World's Fair dropped - YouTube

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