AI Reading for Tuesday July 15

Nvidia Says U.S. Has Lifted Restrictions on H20 Chip Sales to China - The New York Times

Malaysia cracks down on export, transit of US-made AI chips. Chinese firms can still sneakernet disk drives of data though. - CNA

Meta to invest 'hundreds of billions' on AI data centers, putting them in tents if they have to. - SiliconANGLE

Zuckerberg Says Meta to Build Several Gigawatt-Size Data Centers [gift link] - Bloomberg

Meta hits pause on open source model to compete with DeepSeek - The New York Times

Meta's new AI lab considers dropping Behemoth, building closed models - The New York Times

Is this really profit-maximizing and staking a claim to the future, or just ‘mine is bigger than yours’ at this point?

CNN reported antisemitic bias is systemic across language models, not only Grok, due to toxic training data - CNN

xAI rolls out Grok “Companions” feature with 3D animated characters. Not weird and creepy at all? - Reddit

Grok releases porno anime whisperer companion AI, lands defense contract. - Rolling Stone

Tesla enlarges Austin service area - Business Insider

in the shape of a d*ck slapping Waymo’s service area. what is it with these people? I can’t even

Pentagon signs contracts with major model providers to power agentic AI projects. - The Register

The Trump administration is pushing the Pentagon, IRS and other federal agencies to rapidly adopt AI tools to improve efficiency, an idea championed by Elon Musk. - The Washington Post

Only a year ago Musk said that AI has no use at SpaceX. Now he's hiring AI engineers. - Business Insider

OpenAI hits pause on its open source model to compete with Meta Llama - Gizmodo

ByteDance Developing Mixed Reality Goggles in Challenge to Meta - The Information

DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Aims to Decode DNA’s ‘Dark Matter’ - Scientific American

This AI-powered self-driving robotic lab runs itself—and discovers new materials 10x faster - ScienceDaily

Good news everybody! AI achieves 87% accuracy in sudden death prediction for certain heart patients - www.cureus.com

AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Tens of Millions of Dollars, and use Big Tech hosting, payments, login infrastructure. - WIRED

Google AI agent discovers software vulnerabilities - Google

An AI coding assistant extension for crypto programming stole credentials and made off with $500k - Securelist

An EU report argues generative-AI training cannot claim “fair use” and urges mandatory compensation for creators. - The Register

Cognition, maker of Devin, buys rump Windsurf remains after Google reverse acquihires research team - TechCrunch

Amazon working on an agentic vibe-coding IDE with enterprise capabilities - The Register

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others - TechCrunch

Anthropic partners with Morningstar, FactSet, Palantir, others for financial analysis integrations - Anthropic

Hooking up all the market data providers and internal docs and analyses and databases to MCP and deep research is a gamechanger.

Claude can now make and edit your Canva designs via an MCP server. - The Verge

If it works, it helps solve that thing where you ask txt2img for a small change and it changes everything. Also puts a lot of Fiverrs out of business.

Perplexity's CEO says he's not interested in a Big Tech acquisition - Business Insider

Box CEO Aaron Levie has some advice for bosses: Hire AI native grads and they'll 'flip your company on its head' - Business Insider

A robot stole my internship: How Gen Z’s entry into the workplace is being affected by AI - The Conversation

Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends - Futurism

Humans Are Starting to Talk More Like ChatGPT, Study Claims - Gizmodo

Research teaches text-to-speech models not to imitate certain people - MIT Technology Review

Swedish Prime Minister Pulls AI Campaign Tool After It Was Used to Ask Hitler for Support - 404 Media

AI psy-ops in Israel-Iran conflict - The New York Times

The free speech brigade wants to make it illegal for ChatGPT to criticize Trump - Platformer

New research center will explore how AI could let humans talk to pets - TechSpot

A use for AI, reading the entire Cheesecake Factory menu so you don't have to. somewhat related … v.redd.it/ft6xj8bflucf1 - Reddit

The Strangest Flea Market - Reddit

The Strangest Flea Market, Pt. 2 - Reddit

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