AI reading for Thursday July 11
Is Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' a fraud on consumers? - Washington Post
Musk's plan to colonize Mars includes seeding it with his own sperm. - NY Times
Just what we were hoping for, an alien world populated entirely by mini-Musks
Musk: if you are paranoid that we have already put a chip in your brain, in the future we can implant a chip to make sure you don't think that. - Business Insider
AWS App Studio helps turns text into enterprise apps in minutes. - VentureBeat
This seems like a new trend, with Websim, Anthropic artifacts, Poe Previews etc. I think low-code dev tools with human-in-the-loop AI assisted dev might be the future.
Amazon adds prompt engineering tools in Bedrock. - Amazon Web Services
Anthropic adds Web console features to create and evaluate prompts. - Maginative
All that robot and surveillance tech from companies like Anduril for the border and the military will be coming to your local police department soon. - Texas Observer
Based on initial orders Apple is targeting a 10% increase in iPhone shipments with new AI features. - Mashable ME
FTC source says giving up OpenAI board seat won't do much to alleviate Microsoft antitrust concerns. - Reuters
Copilot AI going into Windows 10 as part of mandatory update. - TechRadar
Google also implements features like summarizing your docs (and training on them?) with no way to turn it off. - X (formerly Twitter)
Pope Francis: Just say no to lethal autonomous weapons.
GPU shortage has expanded profit margins to an unsustainable level. At sane margins the opportunity is smaller than expected even if AI deployment grows faster than expected. If margins stay high, biggest hyperscalers adapt their stacks to use other chips and custom silicon.
AMD buys Finnish Silo AI to have its own foundation LLM. - Reuters
Samsung announces a bunch of stuff with lots of AI, including a $400 ring with an AI health tracker. - WIRED
Stability added a music generation model to their chatbot assistant. - Stability AI
OpenAI to build bioscience at Los Alamos, where nothing regrettable has ever been invented. - Decrypt
Say something is too dangerous to release, everyone starts talking about it. - New York Post
Erroll Morris on the use of gen-AI in documentaries. - Nieman Lab
AI hedge fund pays interns $20k per month. - eFinancialCareers
Intuit lays off 10% of its workforce, looks to hire people to work on AI. - The Register
Xiaomi says its fully automated, lights-out factory will produce 10m phones per years. - New Atlas
CNN lays off 100, pursues 'strategic push into AI' - Futurism
Sperm whales' phonetic alphabet revealed by AI, paving the way toward interspecies communication.
Sick pupil attends school via robot.
ElevenLabs helps Congresswoman recreate her voice after losing it to degenerative disease. - Frederick News-Post
Maybe AI can give Joe Biden a little help?
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