AI Reading for Wednesday February 5
OpenAI's video on their rebrand - YouTube
OpenAI launches a rebrand - The Verge
Fixing the varying line thicknesses in the logo. At one point they were talking about just going with a big O logo but seem to have pumped the brakes on that.
Big robot startup Figure dumps OpenAI for internal models (cough…open source) - TechCrunch
Google misses, plans to spend $75b on AI this year, stock drops sharply. - Yahoo Finance
Google CEO says their models beat DeepSeek, as the company plans to spend $75 billion on AI this year - Business Insider
(fact check: true if not by much )
Microsoft poaches DeepMind staff behind AI podcasting / text to speech feature - FT
Google deletes policy against using AI for weapons or surveillance - Mashable
Ex Googler charged in theft of trade secrets case catches economic espionage charges - Decrypt
Do your Zoom calls from the beach with an AI that shows you at your desk - YouTube
Irony alert: Anthropic says applicants shouldn’t use LLMs - Ars Technica
How a staff engineer uses AI to be more productive - Sean Goedecke
Workday erases 8.5% of workforce because of...AI - The Register
Mark Milley says up to 1/3 of military systems will be robotic going forward - Hacker Noon
Their Nova LLM doesn't really rank so if they have a breakthrough not much they can do with it except write a paper, license IP if they are lucky.
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