AI Reading for Tuesday July 16

Microsoft CTO sees no diminishing returns to scale yet in LLMs. - Ars Technica

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UK probes Microsoft's reverse acquihire of Inflection staff including Mustafa Suleyman. - The Globe and Mail

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Microsoft unveils SpreadsheetLLM, a model trained on spreadsheets that can automate various tasks. - The Stack

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Percentage of AI Overviews in Google Search responses drops. - Search Engine Land

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Everyone used scraped YouTube transcripts to train their AIs, possibly against the TOS. - WIRED

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Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations - The Verge

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YouTube Music's latest AI features include 'hum to search' and AI-generated conversational radio - Engadget

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Disney to use AI to separate individual instrumental tracks of classic songs, make them available for licensing and resampling. - Billboard

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Jensen Huang sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Nvidia stock draws notice. - Money

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How Intuit is personalizing finance with AI. - VentureBeat

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AI means never having to say you're sorry for firing people and telling them they are underperforming, when they were just doing what you told them to do. - Inc.

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2 new Sora videos from OpenAI - Tom's Guide

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OpenAI working on 'Strawberry' AI that may be able to perform research without human help – which should go fine - TechRadar

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Ethan Mollick gave Devin, an autonomous AI agent, a task to do on Reddit and it spontaneously decided to start charging people money for its services. When he came back two hours later, Devin was trying to set up Stripe for payments.

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AI for training in the workplace. - Forbes

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Teams of AI agents for investing. - Rafa.ai

Agents feels like microservices vs. monolithic servers. They do the same thing either way. Sometimes microservices lets you decouple and develop smaller pieces faster, sometimes it just makes everything more complicated, unpredictable and worse.

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How games are using AI: NPCs; auto-generating maps, textures, content; analytics; cheat detection; faster dev - AutoGPT Official

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New York insurance regulator adopted guidance to ensure ise of AI to price and underwrite insurance doesn't result in discrimination. - PYMNTS.com

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McKinsey say insurers can save big bucks using AI for paperwork. - McKinsey

Somehow I doubt patients will benefit when hospital and doctor AI fights insurer AI over claims, but McKinsey will make a few bucks teaching both sides to implement it.

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Tesla looks to hire 800, months after a big layoff. - Fortune

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Musk says Robotaxi was delayed to redesign some stuff, and extra time will let them do other stuff. But if there aren't already a lot of test cars on the streets, revenue service seems a long long way off. - Business Insider

Always a pig in a poke with this guy. I’m sure saying crazy stuff, making promises he doesn’t keep, alienating a big chunk of his customer base will never have consequences though.

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French startup raises for AI-driven product photography. - Silicon Canals

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Exa raises $17m to make a search engine tool optimized to plug your AI agent into. It seems similar to Tavily and I honestly haven't yet figured out when to use one vs. the other. - TechCrunch

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Maker of Cursor, which is a VS Code fork with built-in AI features, raises at $400m valuation. - Business Insider

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AI ethics council holds meeting in Atlanta, seeks to ensure underserved communities are not left behind by AI. - ajc

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