AI Reading for Tuesday February 4
OpenAI says o3-mini is more persuasive than 83% of humans in the /ChangeMyView subreddit - Ars Technica
New slogan: “Takes a bit more time to spout a bit less nonsense” - The Register
OpenAI's Operator agent helped me move, but I had to help it, too, consensus is it's still pretty hands-on - TechCrunch
ChatGPT’s New ‘Research’ Feature: The Good and the Bad - The Information
OpenAI in hardware patent push - Business Insider
Palantir jumps after earnings - Bloomberg.com
Anthropic dares you to jailbreak its new AI model - Ars Technica
The world's 'first AI software engineer' isn't living up to expectations - ITPro
Amazon's robots could help it save $10 billion a year by 2030, Morgan Stanley analysts say - Business Insider
only thing worse than having a back-breaking job is not having one
An AI Shazam for Art to Preserve African Art - Hacker Noon
For $5/month, Adobe's Acrobat AI assistant will read your contracts and explain and check them - 9to5Mac
Elon Musk wants AI to cut the Federal budget - NY Times
'AI-First’ government, what could go wrong - WIRED
I don’t always test, but when I do, I do it in production.
Like this guy
Employees smuggle 'Shadow AI' into work - BBC
Need strong policies to prevent putting enterprise IP into DeepSeek and other apps with iffy data retention and training practices, not to mention reputational risk, cyberseurity risks if you put your whole network docs and logs into them, etc.
Public Libraries fill up with AI Slop - 404 Media
we killed a lot of humans but at least we brought OpenAI to their knees
Jump raises $20m to automated financial advisor workflows like regulatory-compliant note-taking - FinSMEs
Over 40% of longer Facebook posts said to be likely AI-generated — Study - originality.ai
Noted NYU prof talks about putting her own breast cancer scans through AI - Hacker Noon
The Wild Robot is getting good reviews - Rotten Tomatoes
Companion, a twisted, bloody AI thriller is a must-watch if you love movies like Her and Ex Machina - BGR
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