AI Reading for Wednesday April 23
Musk wants more money for xAI at higher valuation, to buy 1m GPUs - Tom's Hardware
Tesla’s Humanoid Robot Plan Disrupted by China Rare Earth Curbs - Bloomberg
OpenAI would buy Chrome if it could and make it an “AI-first” experience - Ars Technica
Also Bing sucks compared to Google search. - The Verge
Cursor said to reach $300m annual run rate, declined OpenAI approach, so OpenAI targeted smaller Windsurf - TechCrunch
AI leaders including Hinton oppose OpenAI for-profit conversion. - FT
In theory, if future income streams are greater as a for-profit, the non-profit can be better off while the for-profit also thrives, and at high enough valuation there would be no corrupt diversion of non-profit to private use.
The Great AI Lock-In Has Begun. Like everyone else, OpenAI wants your data and your dollars. - The Atlantic
Apple Intelligence earns ‘stronger-than-expected’ marks in consumer survey - 9to5Mac
Apple drops ‘available now’ from Apple Intelligence marketing copy after getting hand slapped by BBB - The Verge
Palantir, Silicon Valley’s darkest unicorn, is now reaping the rewards of the rising appetite for war and repression in the collective West — including, of course, Israel. - naked capitalism
AI-based virtual CISO tool targets MSPs to whom SMBs outsource IT - TechCrunch
Character.AI unveils AvatarFX for real-time animation of lifelike chatbots - TechCrunch
Better talk to customer service bots, and also your personal friend and AI support robot on your device.
Ex-NSA boss: AI should try to avoid mistakes of other technologies that didn't initially consider infosec - The Register
The key to artistic achievement isn’t about technology but the way artists apply it to express our humanity. - MIT Technology Review
AWS calls colo lease cutbacks 'routine capacity management' - The Register
Henry Blodget Invents, Hires, Sexually Harasses, Blogs About Nonexistent AI Subordinate - Defector
AI and analytics are beginning to revolutionize the NBA - Raw Story
Passengers say self-driving Waymo stopped on the highway and locked them inside. - Futurism
Can a single AI model advance any field of science? - Earl Lawrence
Sam's Club wants to phase out cashiers and receipt checkers. - BGR
I feel like we tried this and it didn't work that great, had to lock up everything in CVS. Something something shoplifting and fare beating, but it started when they got rid of staff, checkout, token clerks. Failure of game theory and strategic thinking really.
GenAI squeezes midsize SaaS companies, says Alix Partners - Business Insider
Damn I need this AI garbage bin - Reddit
can never really tell if paper is coated, too soiled etc. for recycling in NYC.
Stanford CS25 lectures on transformers, including Karpathy, Hinton and others - CS25
"Cheat on everything" is not a great look for company that helps interviewers do coding tests. - Xitter
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