AI Reading for Sunday May 25

A little late today, built some new stuff … more autonomous, more agentic, more industrial-strength RAG, will transition to Beehiiv but still need to test some style issues.

Google’s ‘world-model’ bet: building the AI operating layer before Microsoft captures the UI - VentureBeat

Chrome AI Pro subscribers can now have Gemini view tabs, summarize pages, and interact via voice within the browser. - The Verge

Google I/O showed off AI done right — hopefully, Apple was paying attention - Tom's Guide

Musk asserts AI will make search redundant in comment on Google Search share dipping below 90% - Tom's Hardware

‘Microsoft is the AI ringleader’: tech rivals flock to software giant’s stage - Financial Times

Xi Jinping’s plan to beat America at AI - The Economist

If you just 'count the server racks', will you know if DeepSeek is training on them? What's the counterfactual, if there was no Gulf deal? would they invest in US data centers? the techbros want planetary-scale compute to do 100 years of science in 10 years - is that real or a desert mirage? - www.chinatalk.media

Nvidia to launch cheaper Blackwell AI chip for China after US export curbs, sources say - Reuters

AI videos are about to be more realistic, weirder and creepier than ever. - The Verge

Quantized MoE models and other tricks are boosting efficiency - The Register

Optimizing Assembly Code with LLMs: Reinforcement Learning Outperforms Traditional Compilers - MarkTechPost

How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation - Sean Heelan's Blog

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work - The New York Times

LinkedIn exec: AI automation of entry-level tasks is reducing junior roles traditionally used to climb the career ladder, hurting new grads - Fortune

AI Is Replacing Women's Jobs Specifically - Futurism

Khosla Ventures and other VCs are pioneering a new investment strategy: acquiring established businesses and optimizing them with AI to boost efficiency and customer reach. - TechCrunch

Use AI To Disrupt, Not Sell To Enterprises, Venture Capitalists Urge - Forbes

Are robotaxis about to cross the chasm to mass adoption? Waymo, Tesla, Zoox expand offerings - Digital Trends

Elon Musk and Tesla are going all in for the robotaxi race, despite some issues with running red lights and driving in the bike lane. (Linette Lopez, wherever you are, we miss you!) - Business Insider

Chris Walti, Tesla's former lead for the Optimus robot, criticized humanoid robots like Optimus as unsuitable for most factory work, calling them a "ninth-inning robotics problem" while current technology is in the "third inning." - Business Insider

How Elon Musk’s ‘truth-seeking’ chatbot lost its way - The Washington Post

Doctors and nurses could wear smart glasses that warn them if they are about to give the wrong medicine or make other errors. See, a humanoid robot would never /s - NBC News

AI as a courtroom interpreter? Bill could make Wisconsin the first. {Maybe courtroom stenographers eventually.) - The Cap Times

A database of 117 legal cases so far where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings. - www.damiencharlotin.com

Can one person really build a billion-dollar business with AI agents? This author thinks so - ZDNET

Multi-agent systems are like containers and k8, powerful but makes systems harder to reason about, and anything you want to do you can probably do with a monolith. But some moonshots and architecture astronauts can probably go interesting places with them. - VentureBeat

Simon Willison gives the Claude system card a read, including a striking “spiritual bliss” attractor state... talking to itself, Claude gravitated to profuse gratitude and increasingly abstract and joyous spiritual or meditative expressions. - Simon Willison’s Weblog

Book excerpt: "Empire of AI" by Karen Hao - CBS News

Sam and Jony and skepticism of vapor and hype - sixcolors.com

New Device Mounts to Your Toilet to Analyze Your Turds Using the Power of AI. - Futurism

Gonna talk to you in AI TikTok voice and tell you to consume more fiber.

Am I hot or not? People are asking ChatGPT the big questions. - The Washington Post

Yeah, we will be replaced - Reddit

Robot boxing match ends with knockout punch - Reddit

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