AI Reading for Tuesday February 11

Musk throwing spanners in everyone's machinery

Feb 11, 2025

The more OpenAI pays to buy out the nonprofit, the less is left over to promise other investors and invest in the research and product.

Altman : "OpenAI is not for sale. OpenAI's mission is not for sale - to say nothing of the fact that, like, a competitor who is not able to beat us in the market and you know, instead is just trying to say, like, 'I'm gonna buy this" with total disregard for the mission is a likely path there." - Axios

OpenAI finalizing first custom chip design this year - Reuters

OpenAI snitches to Feds on DeepSeek - Bloomberg

Study: AI use diminishes humans' critical thinking - 404 Media

The Anthropic Economic Index: who is using AI, how much and for what?

Employers might underestimate how much employees are using 'shadow AI' (and what corporate info they are putting into unvetted apps) - FT

Gen-Zers go all-in on AI - Business Insider

Why does AI hallucinate? - Business Insider

Culling employees to hire more AI engineers so hot right now - Business Insider

Zuck: we haven't been doing enough shady shit lately, breaking enough stuff, tearing up the social fabric enough - The Information

Amazon's menagerie of robots with names like Sparrow and Titan - Business Insider

Google expands NotebookLM Plus to individual users - TechCrunch

Trust and safety are for losers: JD Vance - the Guardian

Don't partner with authoritarian regimes! "Partnering with them means chaining your nation to an authoritarian master that seeks to infiltrate, dig in and seize your information infrastructure." In contrast to, you know, the USA under Trump.

What DeepSeek’s Success Says About China’s Ability to Nurture Talent - NY Times

China has some very messed up authoritarian and corrupt institutions to pick winners and keep foreigners out, but there are a lot of areas China is 10 years ahead of the US, and the US is moving in the wrong direction in terms of rule of law, crony capitalism, civil rights/liberties, vibrant press, high trust society, etc.