AI Reading for Wednesday August 7

OpenAI improves structured outputs. Also, a big price cut if you use their latest GPT-4o, after Google cut prices to half of GPT-4o.

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OpenAI scales back Dev Day, won't announce GPT-5. - TechCrunch

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Greg Brockman (leave of absence) and 2 other senior leaders are leaving OpenAI, seems like a pretty big deal. - Business Insider

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When people ask AI for phone numbers, and it keeps hallucinating your phone number and giving it out to people. - Business Insider

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TFW a drone cancels your insurance because it looks like you don't take care of your home. - Business Insider

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NFL will roll out face scanning to match people with credentials for backstage areas. - The Register

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AI to predict if your flight will be delayed before airline announces a delay. - Tech Times

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AI age check startups hoover up kids' pictures - Washington Post

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Elon Musk turns his back on cars, too bad Tesla isn't a leader in robotaxis or humanoid robots or AI - Ars Technica

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Competitive accelerationism means every AI company has to race to the bottom, so regulation has to set a floor for activities like aggressive scraping. - Vox

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Figure shows off new humanoid robot. - VentureBeat

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Sketchy 'AI tool' from a con man puts people in jail. It’s a fine line between hype and absolute snake oil. You don't need or want AI to put someone at a crime scene, either he pinged a tower or wifi AP or he didn't. - Business Insider

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San Francisco bans the AI software that lets landlords collude delegate rent-setting to an AI that has all their shared information. - The Register

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X sues advertisers. According to our tech overlords, landlords sharing info on algorithmic platforms to raise prices is not collusion, advertisers cooperating on website standards and sharing info on which ones adhere to responsible practices is collusion. Free speech doesn't apply to them I guess. - Axios

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AI made Disney child star cry. - Sky News

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Startup drops open source speech recognition it says is better than OpenAI's Whisper. - VentureBeat

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Groq raises $640m for AI chips. - VentureBeat

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