AI Reading for Wednesday Jan 22
OpenAI and Softbank say they are starting a $500 billion AI data center company - The Verge
Not your typical 'infrastructure week'. - OpenAI
Microsoft Changes OpenAI Pact to Allow Use of Rival Cloud Services (ha, check out ORCL stock)
Musk says they don’t have the money - CNBC
Microsoft has right of first refusal, so OpenAI can play Oracle and Azure off each other. At some point they might flood the market with Nvidia GPUs for rent. Maybe they don’t have access to $500b but Abu Dhabi has a few bucks sitting around, which they can lever up. Trump will sell Elon Musk or anybody down the river if you tell him he’s a genius and give him a good photo op. Everybody playing off everybody against everybody.
Cheap, smart, deadly. Begun, the drone wars have. - Washington Post
"AI competition is not a zero-sum game. Instead, the world’s superpowers need to work together to make sure AI benefits humanity." - MIT Technology Review
Sigh. Everything is going in the opposite direction. Dumbest MFers on the earth completely overestimate US and underestimate how the biggest have the most to lose from chaos and AI-generated pandemics, terror/asymmetrical warfare, and US benefits the most from the rules based order it created.
SaaS companies go all-in on agents - CFO Dive
Spotting dementia with AI - New York Post
Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives - WIRED
Could AI watch rugby or soccer players and say when it's time to sub them because they are showing subtle fatigue and about to maybe get injured? - The Conversation
TikTok owner ByteDance plans to spend $12bn on AI chips in 2025 - FT
Hassabis: Drug we discovered with AI will be in clinical trials by yearend - FT
Google invests another $1b in Anthropic, bringing stake to $3b. - Bloomberg
Good job playing off Google and Amazon, who Anthropic is in pretty deep with, I guess? The Great Game, 21st century version.
Anthropic plans to release a 'two-way' voice mode for Claude, sounds like Advanced Voice Mode - TechCrunch
Author of AI scifi novel says you should unplug Alexa and Siri - Daily News
Goldman Sachs rolls out an AI assistant for its employees, similar to JPMorgan's - NBC News
Robot insects to pollinate indoor farms. - The Debrief
(the Q Branch would also like a word)
Bernice King slams Sexyy Red over ‘distasteful’ use of AI MLK image - ajc
<8 months of text to video progress - Reddit
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