AI Reading for Tuesday May 13

What Goldman uses AI for

May 13, 2025

Some Goldman AI tools - Business Insider

1. Chatbot with access to internal tools and data. 2. Internal AI-enabled search 3. Banker copilot to automate research and draft docs 4. Data engineering to load data into databases with proper governance and semantics, documentation so users can find stuff. 5. Translation

Trump Administration Considers Large Chip Sale to Emirati A.I. Firm G42. and Saudis - NY Times

TANSTAAF747, there ain’t no such thing as a free 747.

South Korea to buy $1B worth of Nvidia chips for national AI computing center. - Tech In Asia

Tom Cotton wants to geotrack your GPU. - Tom's Hardware

Alibaba’s Joe Tsai: China has the upper hand in AI and in the trade war - South China Morning Post

China's big humanoid robot push aims to bring the bill of materials down to $17k in 5 years. - Reuters

Republicans try to cram a ban on state AI regulation into reconciliation bill - Politico

Apple Wants You to Control iPhone With Your Thoughts - WSJ

iOS 19 to feature AI power management for longer battery life - Bloomberg

Google's NotebookLM Is the AI You Need to Make Sense of Your Information Overload - CNET

AI Startup Perplexity Raising $500m at $14 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round - WSJ

Cops sidestep facial recognition bans by deploying tech that is able to fingerprint people based on clothing, body type etc. - MIT Technology Review

Investors back start-ups aiding copyright deals to AI groups - FT

Altman said older people tend to use ChatGPT as a search engine, while college students use it like an operating system. - Business Insider

LectureNotes AI captures and summarizes spoken content from lectures. - TrendHunter.com

Maybe there should be a collaborative platform where students combine their notes with the lecturer's, go back and forth with questions with instructors, TAs and profs. But also maybe traditional lectures might be dead.

Chegg to lay off 22% of workforce as AI tools shake up edtech - Reuters

Anthropic cofounder says plenty of parents would buy an AI teddy bear to keep their kids busy. - Business Insider

Maybe the child would prefer to turn off the AI and use their imagination. When I was a kid I wasn’t allowed to watch TV except by special request. Now kids get 24h dopamine drip right into their veins.

After 25 years, Google might replace the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button with AI mode. - The Verge

British airways says AI is helping them stay on time by proactively adjusting routes, responding to disruptions by figuring out which changes impact the least number of passengers. - FT

Amazon has a couple of papers on robots picking and stowing items, says they work ok but trail humans - Amazon

Apparently a lot of Facebook ads for amazing AI video generators are installing malware - Dark Reading

A Comprehensive Survey of AI Agent Frameworks and Their Applications in Financial Services - Preprints.org

Measuring model abilities on different dimensions to predict performance on a task (and also evaluating benchmarks by which dimensions they focus on) - Microsoft

Pulled myself into a side quest, an agent engineering roadmap - Druce.ai

everything you wanted to know about building agents but were afraid to ask, or at least a roadmap to start learning more about them. Comments/questions welcome.