AI Reading for Thursday August 1

OpenAI will give Feds early access to its next model. - Engadget

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How fast can ChatGPT Voice Assistant talk? pretty fast. - Reddit

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Reviews of Apple Intelligence continue to trickle in - The Verge

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Meta filtered AI questions about Trump assassination attempt because the story was too sensitive, right-wingers had a proper freakout that they were burying the story. Meta caved, then, right-wingers had an even bigger freakout out that AI was hallucinating. 🤣🤷‍♂️ - The Verge

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Google’s latest 2b-parameter open-source model does really well in Chatbot Arena, beats bigger Phi-3 small models and even GPT-3.5 turbos which is a feat, the 27b-parameter version is #15 overall which is amazing. - VentureBeat

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Llama-3 405b enters LMSYS ranking, doesn't outrank OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini's best, but you could argue it cracked that top tier at #4.

4o-mini is shockingly high. Maybe use that for everything if it's almost as good as 4o and fast and cheap?

Still awaiting the latest Mistral Large 2407.

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China narrows AI gap with US with Qwen and Yi and Kling, among others. I think Gemma and Llama are still on top for open-source LLMs though, you have to cherry-pick a bit to claim otherwise. - South China Morning Post

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Tesla in FSD mode kills motorcyclist; driver who was looking at his phone is charged with vehicular homicide. - The Register

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RunwayML announces cheaper, faster Gen-3 model - VentureBeat

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TikTok generated 20% of Azure OpenAI revenue. - The Information

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Amazon updates "Just Walk Out" tech in push to sell it to third-party grocery stores. Do grocery stores want to give that much data to Amazon about customers' transactions and in-store behavior? - Seattle Times

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Despite reportedly helping some users and passing some medical exams, ChatGPT is found very mediocre at diagnosing common ailments. MedicalXpress

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Amazon considered building a Doctor AI. - Business Insider

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Zuck says he will spend a lot on AI, reports good earnings, stockholders rejoice. - TechCrunch

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Nvidia recovered lost ground as Microsoft and Meta talk up AI spending. - CNBC

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Taco Bell expands AI order-taking trials. - The Verge

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“No nation on Earth has discovered a way to import the world’s goods and services while stopping foreign ideas at the border” but China is trying its best, exporting TikTok but blocking Google and all US social media, and exporting AI surveillance tech for autocracy. - The Japan Times

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Frenemies? Microsoft annual report lists OpenAI among competitors. - CNBC

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US weighs even tighter restrictions on China's access to chips, looping in Micron and SK Hynix and Samsung. - Bloomberg

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Build a local self-hosted Perplexity - - Medium

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Feds support 'open weight' models - ZDNET

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Intel layoffs imminent, sadly, as earnings are reported amid defective chip crisis. Lunar Lake is make-or-break for them in consumer space. Everything shifting to ARM over the next decade is a distinct possibility. - Tom's Hardware

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Putting the July Fed statement to music with Suno and RunwayML - YouTube

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