AI Reading for Thursday July 25

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I made a video about how to build a news aggregator with LangGraph, which is one way to reach level 4, chain multiple AI processes like classification, summarization, content generation. - YouTube

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Sam Altman calls for a democratic vision for AI, with investment in infrastructure and cybersecurity, norms and regulatory clarity around stuff like IP and international trade and investment like TikTok. - Washington Post

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Free fine-tuning for GPT-4o mini is kind of cool, for instance if you have a corpus of headlines to categorize. - VentureBeat

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Udio got an upgrade. - Tom's Guide

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Airtable launches AI Cobuilder no-code text-to-app feature. - For The Record

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Dentist AI raises $58m. - TechCrunch

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Biden has been replaced by a fake, just like Paul McCartney. - dw.com

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Meta board recommends changes to deepfake handling, like banning 'nonconsensual' deepfakes and not 'derogatory' ones. - Fast Company

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AI's slop era also has some diamonds in the slop. - NY Times

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Marc Andreessen Thinks AI Could ‘Save’ Comedy. So what’s the deal with techbros? I think he may need a software update. Serenity now! - Gizmodo

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Lakera raised $20m to block prompt injection into your enterprise chatbot. - TechCrunch

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Bing to get AI overviews. Reddit did a deal with Google and blocked Bing. - PCMAG

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AOC's deepfake bill passes Senate unanimously, lets victims sue. - The Verge

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Bubble fears take root. - Washington Post

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AI theses tested by selloff. - Business Insider

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OpenAI bootstraps an AI safety scoring model to facilitate training guardrails. - VentureBeat

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AI training data needs to be dominated by good human content, things get weird if gen-AI starts to dominate and there is a feedback loop. - The Register

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OpenAI could lose $5B this year and run out of cash in 12 months: via The Information. - Cointelegraph

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A North Korean fake IT worker tried to infiltrate a US anti-phishing company using AI. I wonder how they passed 4 interviews, whether they used a real-time AI video / audio deepfake avatar, AI assistance to pass the interviews. - KnowBe4

AI assisted overemployment, where someone uses AI to hold down multiple remote jobs, AI avatars to attend meetings, is surely a thing or will be.

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Musk polls his followers to ask if Tesla should put $5b into xAI which Musk mostly owns. Excessively online, conflict of interest, fraudulent cashectomy or all of the above? - Bloomberg

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Musk is cagey about Tesla robotaxi, leading to speculation it's vaporware. No details, no regulatory approvals or public submissions, no cars testing on the streets, hmmh. - The Verge

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Everything related to Trump and Musk is fake news, there is nothing real, just BS and hype. - Fortune

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I just have one simple request, robot dogs with flamethrowers attached to their heads. - Interesting Engineering

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