AI Reading for Wednesday December 11

Big Google updates! Gemini 2.0 and more.

Google announces Gemini 2.0 , coding and research AI products. - Bloomberg

Google Blog - Google

Google showed off an updated Astra assistant - YouTube

Gemini 2.0 trained on 100,000 Trillium chips. You can top AI leaderboards without Nvidia? - VentureBeat

Jules is a full software development lifecycle agent. - VentureBeat

Google's Project Mariner can control Chrome (which OpenAI conspicuously does not, although it can script terminal and VS code and use a web search tool) - TechCrunch

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Mustafa Suleyman poaches DeepMind staff in London for AI health unit.

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'Supremacy' author Parmy Olson on AI: ‘It’s not uncontrollable’

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Do AI companies need to do more to stop deepfake scams and should they have liability? - FT

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Big tech feels like a relationship that turned abusive but you don't really have the option to break up. - Fast Company

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Mom sues after AI told autistic son to kill parents for restricting screen time. The chat bot allegedly said his parents were ‘s***** people’ who didn’t ‘deserve to have kids’ - The Independent

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Police departments are embracing AI-powered video surveillance. Flock Safety’s license-plate readers and camera-carrying drones are the stuff of public safety advocates’ dreams—and civil liberty advocates’ nightmares. - Fast Company

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says she trusts Trump and Musk to prioritize national interest over their own private commercial interests. - Reuters

wanna buy a bridge Sarah?

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Alternative view: self-dealing and unchecked AI dystopia expected under these dopes - Slate Magazine

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Azure is the only public cloud that hosts OpenAI APIs, and Google wants the FTC to change that. - The Information

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As Sora launches, Adobe's Firefly might have fallen behind in the video generation race. - South China Morning Post

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Tesla shows Optimus walking on uneven ground. If you are on a flat surface you could just use wheels, after years of watching Boston Dynamics I figured that was kind of a given. - TESLARATI

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How tools like NotebookLM do podcasts and what it means - Scientific American

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GM scraps Cruise robotaxi project, will incorporate self-driving tech in its own vehicle offerings. - The Verge

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Combining AI and physics to discover drugs. - TechCrunch

'quantum-inspired' physics sounds a bit snake-oily.

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An AI to take a Swagger API spec and documentation and turn it into a working API - TechCrunch

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A developer of OpenAI's advanced voice mode raises money for speech startup. - Bloomberg

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Labelers with PhDs to train specialized health care and finance models are in demand. - Bloomberg

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Years of relatively high quality (! 🙄) human posts make Reddit an AI treasure trove and darling. - WSJ

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AI Firm's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Billboard Campaign Sparks Outrage - Gizmodo

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Solos $299 smart glasses - The Verge

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