AI Reading for Thursday August 29
OpenAI in talks to raise more money at > $100b valuation. - WSJ
Nvidia reported earnings that beat expectations, but not by as much as expected LOL, the bar is getting high and the stock is starting to lag. - Business Insider
AMD claims essentially parity with Nvidia on data center inference performance. - Wccftech
Ahead of September 9 launch Apple is adding features, Pixel announcements were fascinating but maybe a bit much, some got tagged as AI bloatware.
Google drops its answer to custom GPTs. - The Verge
Google AI is letting people create images with people, again. Cue some new outrage in 3…2…1 - The Verge
Meta brags about Llama adoption, says it doubled over 3 months.
Best Buy got a boost from customers demanding new stuff for AI
AI is Hollywood's new favorite supervillain. - Yahoo
AI helped find a good catalyst candidate for efficient hydrogen production. - Phys.org
Uber invests in a huge UK self-driving tech startup. - TechCrunch
An AI model generates Doom-level environments in near real-time. - VentureBeat
California AI bill heads to Newsom's desk. - The Verge
Korea is experiencing an epidemic of deepfake porn on Telegram. - The Korea Herald
In Venezuela, media use avatars to not get harassed. - PetaPixel
Doxing and deepfakes are remaking civil society. If you try to enforce a photo-taking reg at a national cemetery, you might have to move to avoid wacko weirdos, weaponized by the usual brain-damaged weirdo suspects.
British teachers might get AI sidekicks. - The Register
Late chunking has AI extract relevant context, instead of storing chunks in a DB and doing a similarity search. -Marktechpost
AI draws negative inferences from African American English. - Science.org
Tesla can't even get FSD to run in the Las Vegas one-way tunnel with no other traffic, good luck in New Delhi. - Ars Technica
Midjourney teases a hardware product - VentureBeat
AI Is Deciphering Lost Scrolls From the Roman Empire - Gizmodo
NotePin will take notes on your meeting and your life. - The Verge
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