AI Reading for Tuesday March 18
Engadget liveblog - Engadget
TechRadar liveblog - TechRadar
Google Gemini launches an update with collaborative code editing and NotebookLM style text-to-audio - The Verge
New Alibaba QwQ-32B parameter is pretty high on the charts, doesn't beat Gemma-27b in LM Arena human eval, might beat it in some categories of head-to-head benchmarks and human evals tho
Programming jobs in freefall? - Washington Post
Digital Twins for personalized medicine. - ACM
Lawsuit might struggle to link character.ai to Google, who licensed IP and hired researchers only after the incident
What does the average redditor look like? - Reddit
OpenAI tests Google Drive and Slack integration - TechCrunch
Startup aims for "digital brains capable of true cognition"
Devin maker raises a new round at $4b valuation - The Decoder
Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo and 400 Hollywood creators urge Trump to protect their work from AI - Variety
Robots are getting smarter — and that’s a good thing - FT
OpenAI Post-Training Head Liam Fedus Departs (for materials discovery startup) - The Information
Perplexity in new 'Squid Game' ad: Don't use glue to make mozzarella stick to pizza - The Verge
Web sites getting more traffic from AI search engines - Search Engine Land
Google's Flash 2.0 AI model can reportedly remove watermarks from images - TechCrunch
I tried it but it generated a whole new image which can also be useful, find a stock image and ask AI to generate a similar original one just like it.
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Tesla self-driving fails a Wile E. Coyote test - Gizmodo
Propaganda network attempts to seed LLMs with pro-Russian narratives - Techdirt
Amazon Echo kills on-device edge Alexa processing. - The Register
TBH I thought it already sent everything to the cloud?
Free start up idea! the edge LLM is getting very good, do fully local Siri at gpt-4o level for a couple thousand $ with Matter home automation
Zoom adds agentic features - VentureBeat
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