AI Reading for Thursday March 27

Druce Vertes

Mar 27, 2025

Oh, Gemini 2.5 already in LM Arena? beats GPT-4.5 and Grok-3 60+% of the time, that's a pretty big gap. - LM Arena

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

OpenAI Agents SDK adds support for Model Context Protocol standard, originally proposed by Anthropic, which lets tools publish API specs a form LLMs can understand - OpenAI

Waymos have way fewer crashes and insurance claims than human drivers, and Waymo crashes are usually not the robotaxi's fault.

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

Is AI painful for journalists but helping them and readers do better research, so healthy for a better-informed, more objective, fact-centered culture? - Fast Company

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