AI Reading for Thursday April 17

OpenAI's latest models push the envelope; Jensen in China

Apr 17, 2025

Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini. - OpenAI

Ha we're doing o3 but o4-mini and GPT-4.1 now. Not confusing at all.

Will be interesting to see how new models compare with Gemini 2.5. Initially, ArtificialAnalysis.ai rates o4-mini better and lower cost, pushing the envelope upward and to the left on the efficient frontier/convex hull.

OpenAI now requires a government ID for developer access to its advanced models, aiming to prevent output from being distilled by rivals. - Business Insider

Huge breach, there seems to be an issue of ChatGPT giving you answers to someone else's questions. Maybe they should have the AI coding agent have a look at that (or more likely AI code caused the problem) - Reddit

Five things you should never reveal to ChatGPT if you want to protect your privacy (especially if ChatGPT might be showing your convos to randos) - New York Post

OpenAI has a lightweight command line coding agent - GitHub

OpenAI in talks to buy Windsurf coding assistant for about $3 Billion (gift link) - Bloomberg

Jensen in China: Meetings with Chinese vice-premier and DeepSeek founder come after US clamps down on chipmaker’s sales to China

Nvidia pushed back on export restrictions, saying China can already make H20 level chips and restricting Nvidia is not making America great. US is also probing whether DeepSeek used banned chips. - WSJ

US Officials Target Nvidia and DeepSeek Amid Fears of China’s A.I. Progress

When you wring the neck of your golden goose, it doesn't make much difference whether you use your left hand or your right hand.

Tariffs undercut US humanoid robot startups because they can't import cheap parts. - Financial Post

Docusign launched AI contract agents, which will analyze agreements, highlight risks and surface issues that might usually require careful reading and lawyers - Constellation Research Inc.

He built an AI app to beat coding interviews. Then Columbia suspended him. - Fast Company

Hugging Face starts selling open source robot after acquiring Pollen Robotics - Xitter

At the European Commission, ‘AI agents’ are now banned from joining online meetings - POLITICO

Police are paying big bucks for software to create AI personas to chat people up on social media. - WIRED

ICE pays Palantir for what sounds like using AI to make a blacklist, to supplement the one they get when Canary Mission and Betar take your picture and run some facial recognition and AI on your socials. - 404 Media

Free speech warriors now scanning your socials to cancel you all the way to El Salvador. I’m old enough to remember when asking Facebook and Twitter to pump the brakes on Macedonian propaganda mills was incipient tyranny.

Russia seeds LLMs with lies - Washington Post