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AI Reading for Wednesday July 16
Two product managers for every coder, but the full-stack coder will make $500K with AI tools and agent swarms
China Is Spending Billions to Become an A.I. Superpower - The New York Times
Trump Hails $90 Billion in A.I. Infrastructure Investments at Pennsylvania Summit - The New York Times
Ex-Intel CEO backs Trump's sovereign wealth fund plan — and says it can help the US keep up with China in the tech race - Business Insider
Andrew Ng: Product Team Ratios Evolving to Just One Software Developer for Every Two Product Manager - Hacker Noon
AI struggles with complex tasks. - The Register
But still a big win if you give a swarm of agents an analysis or coding task, and then an expert complete it, with the aid of interactive AI agents.
Maybe the IDE of the future is not an IDE but a mashup of Figma and some graphical workflow modeling like Zapier and some specs/assertions that generates code from a PM toolchain.
Maybe we go straight to agents that you point at a website or software product and it just clones everything.

Finding value with AI automation - MIT Technology Review
You can now go to AWS and fire up a 100,000 node Kubernetes cluster with 1.6m Trainiums and 800K Nvidia GPUs but it's gonna cost you - Amazon Web Services
Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale - Amazon Web Services
OpenAI Wants ChatGPT Agents to disrupt Microsoft Office, be the core of white collar workflows - The Information
OpenAI's image model gets built-in style feature on ChatGPT - Bleeping Computer

Fullstack Engineer - Waifus pays up to $440K - Business Insider
There is a gap between the regular Grok 4 and the super expensive 'heavy' multi-agent model
DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI - Krebs on Security

Mark Zuckerberg says AI researchers want 2 things apart from money: GPUs and freedom from managerial BS - Business Insider
AI optimizes last-mile deliveries - Business Insider

Shopify quietly sets boundaries for AI agents on merchant sites - Modern Retail


A Staggering Proportion of High Schoolers Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends - Futurism
In fairness, most high schoolers suck.


HSBC Warns That Robotaxi Companies May Have Overlooked Severe Obstacles to Actually Making Money - Futurism

Mistral launches Voxtral speech recognition model - The Register

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