AI Reading for Thursday July 10

Nvidia becomes first company to reach $4tn in market value - Financial Times

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang plans Beijing trip ahead of new China AI chip launch - Financial Times

OpenAI closes its nearly $6.5b stock deal to buy Jony Ive’s io and build AI hardware - The Verge

Watch Out, Google: OpenAI’s Browser Is Coming For Chrome - PCMAG

Perplexity Comet browser takes aim at Google Chrome - The Register

European Union Unveils Rules for Powerful A.I. Systems - The New York Times

EU publishes General-Purpose AI Code of Practice - Shaping Europe’s digital future

Turkey bans xAI's Grok over offensive content - Breaking The News

Europe’s Clash With Musk’s xAI Empire Escalates on Grok’s Rants, with possible bans in the offing - Bloomberg

Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription -TechCrunch

Says it’s smarter than an edgelord PhD in any subject

Grok’s latest disturbing messages include step-by-step instructions for a break-in and rape - The Independent

A.I.-Generated Images of Child Sexual Abuse Are Flooding the Internet - The New York Times

California lawmaker behind SB 1047 reignites push for mandated AI safety reports - TechCrunch

Microsoft Pledges $4 Billion Toward A.I. Education - The New York Times

Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs - TechCrunch

All-time high valuation, all-time high revenue, all-time high profits, still does mass layoffs

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up - The Register

Meta lured AI exec away from Apple with blockbuster $200M pay package - AppleInsider

Genius Zuckerberg Poaches Guy Responsible for [Checks Notes] Apple Intelligence - Futurism

Meta AI Researcher Warns of ‘Metastatic Cancer’ Afflicting Company Culture and Morale - The Information

Reid Hoffman says 'crazy' pay packages make sense for top AI talent - Business Insider

Mistral in Talks With MGX, Others to Raise Up to $1 Billion - Bloomberg

WPP issued a dire profit warning as it grapples with the impact of AI - Business Insider

Amazon's secret Starfish project is using AI to synthesize product data from external websites and images to generate more accurate, complete, and relevant product listings on its Marketplace, aiming to become the ultimate global source of product information. - Business Insider

McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ - WIRED

A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car. - The New York Times

Hertz and other rental car companies are using AI-powered high-resolution imaging technology developed by UVeye to detect even minor damages on vehicles during rental pickup and return, aiming to identify every scratch or ding.

AI startup Mechanize wants to use reinforcement learning to automate every job including his own - Business Insider

Stanford released Biomni, a general-purpose biomedical AI agent designed to autonomously execute a wide range of research tasks across diverse biomedical subfields. - GitHub

Google announce MedGemma: 27B-parameter open model for health AI development - Google Research

Scientists use AI to create protein that kills E. coli - Phys.org

California's fire protection agency made an AI chatbot. It gets big stuff wrong. – The Markup - The Markup

Tool strips away anti-AI NightShade poisoning from digital art - MIT Technology Review

At last, a promising use for AI agents: crypto theft - The Register

Chinese TV translations into sign language aren't going well - The Register

Chinese TV translations into sign language aren't going well. : Deaf professor says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways. - The Register

Sun Valley: From Navigating Trump to AI Fears, Here’s What’s on the Minds of Media Moguls - Variety

AI is the latest in a sequence of inventions that have made humanity dumber - Financial Times

We are on the verge of everyone having a Star Trek talking computer and a tutor who has read every book - Fast Company

New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Remove Their Data Post-Training. - WIRED

YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows - TechCrunch

That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI | CBC News - CBC

An AI-generated film on human cloning, (600 prompts, 12 days, $500 budget) - Reddit

Malaysia couple journey to tour site after watching AI-video, unaware it’s unreal - South China Morning Post

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