AI Reading for Thursday March 27
Some champagne popping at Google, Sam Altman calling some war cabinet meetings.
Studio Ghibli style images trend after new OpenAI text-to-image release - TechSpot
Unexpected demand for Ghibli-fication delays ChatGPT’s new image generator rollout to free users - The Verge
OpenAI starting to block requests to copy living artists. - Business Insider
OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke - Ars Technica
Rochelle, Rochelle … A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk
ChatGPT's new image generation is unreal - here are 16 jaw-dropping examples - BGR
with Grok and so much open source AI, safety might take a back seat to competition
we're all gonna have to raise our meme game
OpenAI Close to Finalizing $40 Billion SoftBank-Led Funding. - Bloomberg
No new Microsoft money, not 100% sure SoftBank has that kind of money lying around. I'm hearing anecdotally that enterprises are having trouble getting Azure quota for the new OpenAI models like GPT-4.5.
OpenAI Expects Revenue Will Triple to $12.7 Billion in 2025, will still bleed red ink. - Bloomberg
Can an AI assistant write tough emails as well as a human? - Washington Post
China data center boom turns to bust. - Tech Review
Have your job search agent apply to my hiring agent. - Washington Post
AGI and ‘new ideas’ and consciousness are hard to define. Is AlphaGo's move 37 a new idea? - Windows Central
The Intersection of AI and Fintech: What It Means for Consumers - Finextra Research
AI-Driven Supply Chains - Logistics Viewpoints
How code assistants work - Pocketflow
An Interview with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy About Data and AI - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Systems thinking is hard. - Fast Company
Using AI for municipal inspections. Could regulate more fairly, oversee inspectors and avoid graft. Could be a Kafkaesque nightmare of irremediable hallucinated violations. - The Economic Times
NIST released a taxonomy of adversarial machine learning attacks and mitigations - Schneier
is DOGE AI firing all the NIST safety researchers an adversarial attack and if so what is the mitigation - Schneier on Security
How A.I. Reasons - NY Times
Fixing call center workers' accents in real time - The Verge
This watchdog is tracking how AI firms are quietly backing off their safety pledges in real time - Fast Company
Nvidia Nears Deal to Buy GPU Reseller for Several Hundred Million Dollars - The Information
moving up the value chain, building 'the data center is the computer', competing with clients like Azure, some potential for related party transactions
Gepetto AI Gave My Entire Living Room a Versailles Makeover. All I Wanted Was a New Couch - CNET
that's so AI, you tell it to change this small thing in a program or a picture and it regenerates everything. give an inch and it takes a mile.
Nvidia's nerfed H20, approved by US for China, faces China ban, impacting stock - FT
While Apple's CEO was visiting China’s AI center, the U.S. doubled down on curtailing Beijing’s AI capabilities with an expanded blacklist - Patently Apple
Turning sensor noise into a picture of what's going on in the physical world - Fast Company
I Let AI Pick My March Madness Bracket and Now I'm Leading My Pool - CNET
Videos of AI ‘chubby filter’ removed from TikTok after critics call out body shaming - NBC News
Human bad actors are more to be feared than rogue AI. - Popular Mechanics
Google Gemini 2.5, Claude 3.7 and DeepSeek 3.1 Compete in Coding - NextBigFuture.com
RISC took a while but it took over everything. Angeline Jolie was right in 1995. - WIRED
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