AI Reading for Thursday April 24

New LMarena is out with all the new models. o3 failed to dethrone Gemini 2.5 but came close. It's gotten confusing since there are so many different classes of models now. 4.1 has great JSON handling and simplifies agents pipelines.

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OpenAI says it wants to make its upcoming open AI model best-in-class. Google has set a high bar with Gemma. - TechCrunch

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OpenAI Forecasts Revenue Topping $125 Billion in 2029 - The Information

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OpenAI gave ChatGPT Plus generous new usage limits. I want more deep research dammit. - TechRadar

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Musk faced several pointed queries about Tesla’s plans to roll out driverless cars in Austin in just a few short months, as investors continue to struggle to parse reality from fiction. - The Verge

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VW will start testing robotaxis in US, aiming to deploy 'thousands' on Uber in 2026 - The Verge

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Adobe and Figma integrate ChatGPT’s upgraded image generation model - The Verge

Adobe adds more image generators - The Verge

Also AI content protection watermarks - The Verge

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Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages. - WIRED

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Trump Signs Orders on AI Education, College Accreditation - Bloomberg

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Startup Kollegio raises $2.8M for AI-powered college counseling service - SiliconANGLE

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Kira AI's personalized learning platform, which automates teacher tasks, tracks students, helps create personalized lesson plans, is currently being implemented in Tennessee schools. - ZDNET

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As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, courses face shake-up - The Register

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Google reveals sky-high Gemini usage numbers in antitrust case - Ars Technica

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Google Blocked Motorola Use of Perplexity AI, Witness Says - Bloomberg

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This text-to-voice model understands emotions like, "scream in terror" - Decrypt

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The California bar exam was written with the help of AI. - Ars Technica

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"Can you photoshop a FJÜNKSTÜHL into an Ikea ad? it's a barstool for depressive alcoholics with a built-in ashtray, a holder for a fifth of Jack, and a lap belt so you don't fall off"

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Robot learns just like we do, by watching YouTube. Imagine a future where you give your humanoid robot an Ikea flat pack and say, "avenger, assemble", and it downloads the instructions and makes your FJÜNKSTUHL. TaskRabbit, eat your heart out. - Quantum Zeitgeist

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Never trust a penguin in tap shoes with your lunch money. - Futurism

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AQR Bets on Machine Learning as Cliff Asness Becomes AI Believer (gift link) - Bloomberg

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Microsoft agents and the Frontier Firm - ZDNET

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"I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anything" - The Verge

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Improving Deep Learning With a Little Help From Physics - Quanta Magazine

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