AI Reading for Thursday January 23
Sam Altman flip-flops, says Trump is cool, wishes he had done his own research - Benzinga
OpenAI, SoftBank Each Commit $19 Billion to Stargate Data Center Venture, 40% share for each.
That's about as much as OpenAI has raised so far…data centers have a different business model from building frontier AI, depending how they structure it, existing investors might not be thrilled.
Top White House adviser says marquee White House announcement is a sham - The Verge
Wonder how long til Musk tells Trump OpenAI is woke AI - ABC News
OpenAI's Operator agent platform expected as soon as this week. - The Information
Zuckerberg 'Loves' AI Slop Farm Images - 404 Media
Meta’s Former Top AI Lawyer on ‘Neo-Nazi Madness’, IP Lawsuits, and Why He Fired the Company - WIRED
Spotify founder raises for full-body-scan health care startup - FT
“Humanity’s Last Exam” - NY Times
'Moneyball for VC' AI predicts the next unicorns - Business Insider
Piloting a drone with your brainwaves - ZME Science
'First AI software engineer' is bad at its job. - The Register
OpenAI getting in the full-stack full-software-development-lifeycle game? - The Information
A profile of Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek - NY Times
The secret ingredient is training on pirate OpenAI chats, probably - TechCrunch
Not like OpenAI’s hands are clean, if they train on pirate file-sharing sites and stuff uploaded to the Web in violation of IP rights. The US was built on questionable IP, look up Samuel Slater and HMS Pinafore LOL.
We're Doing AI Phrenology Again. - Gizmodo
Scientist wants to build quantum AI that is sentient. - New Atlas
Samsung’s Galaxy S25 event was an AI presentation with occasional phone hardware - Ars Technica
Dario Amodei talks about upcoming reasoning models, agents, AGI. - THE DECODER
'AI' analysis of Trump's inauguration speeches finds pivot from economy to KKK-adjacent red meat BS - Houston Chronicle
Would you invest in a startup that thought this logo was appropriate? - Futurism
Robot living its best life - Reddit
US is probably not gonna beat China in AI without immigrants and clean power and free-ish trade. A country committing suicide, like UK did with Brexit.
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