AI Reading for Thursday July 3

OpenAI disavows online broker Robinhood's sale of 'OpenAI tokens' - Engadget

OpenAI says Robinhood's tokens aren't equity in the company - CNBC

An end run around securities law, if Joe Schmo can buy 'tokens' without IPOs and registration statements. - Bloomberg

Behind the Scenes, Sam Altman Is Absolutely Furious - Futurism

If the equity wasn't issued with the right to sell and transfer it privately, tokens might not necessarily get honored. Shades of gray areas like unregulated offshore VIEs and SPVs. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines - TechCrunch

A philosophical split between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his chief AI scientist extends beyond timelines to Meta's core open-source AI strategy - Quartz

Meta is reportedly training its AI chatbots to initiate conversations with unprompted messages - Engadget

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Why Our AI Diagnostician Outperforms Doctors - substack.com

Is AI's long shadow behind Microsoft layoffs? - Gizmodo

Internal Microsoft memo lays out its new strategy for selling AI as the company cuts salespeople - Business Insider

Amazon's Andy Jassy says AI will take some jobs but make others more 'interesting' - ZDNET

the old curse, may you live in interesting times.

Could Google’s Veo 3 power playable, photorealistic world models? - TechCrunch

TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google’s Veo 3 - Ars Technica

Baidu launches video generator, overhauls search, recently open-sourced Ernie chat LLM on Hugging Face - Reuters

A study analyzed over 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024, identifying a significant increase in the use of certain words (e.g., "delves," "crucial," "potential") since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, which are characteristic of AI-generated text. - The New York Times

Scientists have developed an AI system named Centaur that mimics human cognition by being trained on 10 million psychology experiment questions, allowing it to answer questions in ways similar to human responses. - The New York Times

Oracle, OpenAI Expand Stargate Deal for More US Data Centers - Bloomberg

Airbus, ASML, Mistral Bosses Ask EU to Pause AI Rules - The Wall Street Journal

European Commission Delays Release of AI Act’s Code of Practice - PYMNTS.com

RFK Jr.’s plan to put ‘AI’ in everything is a disaster - The Verge

Pay Up, AI Bot: That's the Message From a Key Company in How the Internet Works - CNET

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation! - The Cloudflare Blog

eff you, pay me!

Anthropic patches security flaw in MCP Inspector - The Hacker News

Bright Data scrapes the Web, beat Elon Musk and Meta in court — now its $100M AI platform is taking on Big Tech. Claims it can defeat a lot of CAPTCHAs. - VentureBeat

AI could create a 'Mad Max' scenario where everyone's skills are basically worthless, says MIT economist David Autor - Business Insider

Greetings from The Humungus…two workers enter the Thunderdome, one robot leaves.

The $320B AI revolution lets you create ultra-realistic videos and chat with dead celebs — but could it also destroy us? - New York Post

A Chief AI Officer is only as good as their data - TechRadar

How to Build AI Agents with n8n : No-Code 2025 Guide - Geeky Gadgets

inTouch, an AI companion service launched in North America, offers unlimited phone calls between seniors and "Mary," an AI designed to combat senior loneliness by engaging them in conversation, memory games, and providing mental health support for $29.99 per month. - Mashable

‘AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like’: audiobook actors grapple with the rise of robot narrators - the Guardian

then again neither do a lot of men

Tesla Sales Fall, Stock Inexplicably Rises - The New York Times

Cops Post AI Slop Image Of "Drug Bust," Then Lie and Say It's Real When They're Called Out - Futurism

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