AI Reading for Thursday May 22
OpenAI to Buy AI Device Startup From Apple Veteran Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal - Bloomberg
What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive - The Wall Street Journal
Tantalizing details of Jony Ive's AI device leak after OpenAI meeting - AppleInsider
I dunno, Jony not joining OpenAI, not gonna advance ‘safe’ with universal self-surveillance, or ‘AGI’. If it’s not glasses, why not? if you are going for hardware, why not across all categories? Maybe a pig in a poke.
OpenAI is building a social network - The Verge
OpenAI updates Responses API with MCP support, image generation, and more - OpenAI
Crusoe data center built for OpenAI Stargate in Texas gets $11.6 billion in funding commitments - PYMNTS.com
Sam Altman says 'humanoid robots moment' is not far away and the world isn't ready. - Business Insider
Pushing to be a platform company. Elon and Sam each want to be the new Steve Jobs but Sundar and Satya and maybe others might have something to say about it.
Two timely and myth-busting books about OpenAI show that the AI boom is driven by the pursuit of power, wealth and hubris - Financial Times
Gemini Diffusion was the sleeper hit of Google I/O and some say its blazing speed could reshape the AI model wars - Yahoo Tech
Simon Willison: Building software on top of Large Language Models - Simon Willison’s Weblog
There should really be an opt-out over ChatGPT's persistent memory. - Simon Willison’s Weblog
Google’s big AI advantage: it already knows everything about you - The Verge
News publishers call Google’s AI Mode ‘theft’ - The Verge
Sergey Brin said he has used AI for leadership tasks at Google, including delegating tasks and even finding someone to promote. - Business Insider
Demis Hassabis and Sergey Brin on AI Scaling, AGI Timeline, Robotics, Simulation Theory - www.bigtechnology.com
How AI is transforming drug discovery: AlphaFold, AI to identify drug candidates, robots in wet labs, AI in clinical testing - News-Medical
TRICORDER AI-enabled stethoscope FTW - BMJ Open
Researchers use AI to target gene therapies to brain cells using viruses - Neuroscience News
Pulmonologist on AI diagnostics: "I am going to be applying to McDonald's" soon - X
Elon Musk hints at merging xAI and Tesla - Business Insider
How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution - WIRED
Microsoft put ex-Facebook exec Jay Parikh in charge of a 'Core AI' unit building agents everywhere in the MS ecosystem - Business Insider
Microsoft Aurora AI model beats global agencies on cyclone track forecasts - The Register
The enterprise AI trough of disillusionment - The Economist
Abu Dhabi’s MGX, Nvidia to build 1.4GW AI data center campus near Paris by 2028 - Semafor
Technology Review: Data centers might consume 12% of US electricity by 2028 - MIT Technology Review
Mistral AI launches Devstral, powerful new open source SWE agent model that runs on laptops - VentureBeat
What AI Thinks It Knows About You - The Atlantic
Klarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to deliver earnings, it said - TechCrunch
Not sure if that helps your credibility.
Duolingo faces AI backlash and also seeming revolt from social-media team - Fast Company
AI video characters who don't want to be in your narrative are a bit disturbing - Reddit
A Veo3 compilation - Reddit
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