AI Reading for Thursday May 1
Microsoft hyped agents, said good stuff in earnings call, stock popped. - Business Insider
Huang said some stuff, wants to be able to sell more chips to more places. - CNBC
An Interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg About AI and the Evolution of Social Media - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
also talks with Dwarkesh (above) - dwarkesh.com
Meta vs. authors lawsuit poses first big test of AI copyright battle - FT
DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations - WIRED
Elon Musk’s Parting Gift: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State - NY Times
Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning project World makes US debut. - FT
The thing where people tell you to scan your driver's license on your phone is nuts, but this sort of biometric standard needs very strong security and privacy in a highly enforceable framework integrated with OS platforms.
Sam’s Club: Inside Altman’s AI World, Featuring Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Peter Thiel - Vanity Fair
This is how AI is changing mentorship - Fast Company
How China has changed the game for AI valuations - FT
AI is fueling the biggest financial scams ever - TechRadar
Hair-washing robots to debut in Hong Kong. - TechInAsia
Looking at system prompts from jailbroken code assistants. - Geeky Gadgets
I tried Windsurf, still feels a beta, use experimental feature branches and commit often. But it makes a RAG index of your code and offers very smart suggestions and assistance, especially if you first use it to make good comments and Readmes, give it good context.
like, fix or refactor like this , @ referencing these functions and these documentation files. Can definitely see it speeding coding 20-30%.
Some users are complaining ChatGPT got worse. - Reddit
(which prompts, which models? this is why you need evals to track how well your AI is doing)
NLP researchers talk about how their field has been transformed in just a few years. - Quanta Magazine
Google’s AdSense network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots. - Bloomberg
Chinese Hacking Competitions Fuel the Country’s Broad Cyber Ambitions. - Bloomberg
It's a huge issue that in China, the government requires any vulnerabilities someone finds in e.g. iOS to be disclosed to the government and kept secret from Apple. And they can force e.g. Huawei to install secret backdoors.
Wikipedia presents roadmap for AI to assist editors - TechCrunch
Companion is a very enjoyable campy AI movie - YouTube
Xiaomi releases strong small reasoning model for phones - GitHub
Microsoft releases small open-source Phi-4 reasoning models - TechCrunch
Should couples track each other's smart rings? sounds controlling - The Verge
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