AI Reading for Wednesday July 3

Phil Schiller to join OpenAI board as non-voting observer following Apple's ChatGPT deal. - The Verge

Satya Nadella may well be asking, why did we invest $13b, now Apple gets the OpenAI functionality for iPhones, and a board observer, without any skin in the game?

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Brazil tells Meta they can't train AI on users' personal data. - Tech Times

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AI trains on photos of kids whose parents post photos with strict privacy settings. - Ars Technica

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Europe might force Nvidia to open up CUDA, their all-important software layer that all AI tool stacks support seamlessly, and that only runs with Nvidia cards. - Business Insider

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Meta drops a nifty text-to-3d-model AI - VentureBeat

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Musk says Grok 2 in August, Grok 3 by end of year, training on 100,000 Nvidia GPUs. - Neowin

While Elon Musk is blowing at Cat 5 level about Grok 2 and 3, Grok 1 is nowhere to be seen on AI leaderboards, and keeps making up news about Klay Thompson vandalizing houses with bricks or the sun going on the fritz.

Google, remember Google? The guys Elon Musk was so afraid would monopolize closed AI that he helped start OpenAI? Yeah, those guys. They put out a GPT-4 level open source model you can run on a 36GB MacBook Pro.

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Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple's Weather app - TechCrunch

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Google sometimes ranks AI slop based on original reporting above the actual reporting. - WIRED

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Google's carbon footprint rises, despite promises to shrink it. - The Verge

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Google Pixel has Recall-like feature that searches screenshots, but you have to trigger a picture and can turn the feature on and off. - The Verge

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Google policy update requires prominent disclosures in AI-generated content for political ads. Search Engine Land

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Live, from Moscow, AI-generated fake news, aimed at Americans.

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'Bitcoin mining giant' tests limits of AI frenzy with grab at a $16b IPO - Coingape

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Suleyman catches flak over saying knowledge work might be free, but I think he meant that a lot of expertise becomes zero-marginal-cost once you train the model, similar to how it costs a fortune to make e.g. a blockbuster movie or Photoshop but then you can distribute infinite copies to billions of people for practically nothing. - Axios

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AI for HR is a key test case for transparency, fairness, limits of Big Brother. - Forbes

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China leads world in AI patents. - Reuters

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VC dealmaking picks up but still well below 2021. I can't even remember what people were investing in back then. The AI boom is more driven by bigcos spending 10s of billions on GPUs, data centers, chip factories. Like telcos dropping bucks on fiber buildout in dot-com era, could never have enough. - Bloomberg

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Some more cool Runway Gen 3 examples. - The Indian Express

After impressing with latest text-to-video model, Runway stumps for $450m at $4b valuation. - Reuters

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Artlist adds AI powered video voiceovers. - PetaPixel

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An open source toolkit to identify individual wildlife creatures.

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ElevenLabs signs up dead actors. - Variety

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Some more crazy AI animations - - Instagram

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A roundup of AI in finance. An area like investment research might be less affected because you probably don't make a lot of analysts redundant, but the staff are going to be using a lot of AI tools to be a lot more productive. - VentureBeat

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Google engineer makes crazy Medusa snake dress. - Instagram

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FT gently mocks 184-page Morgan Stanley report that predicts 8m humanoid robots by 2040. - FT

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Open source AI dev platform raises $85m - Yahoo Finance

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GPT gone wild asking for fake funny Mexican names - Reddit

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Good news everyone! live action Futurama created with AI! - Looper

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Mutahunter AI makes testing more robust by introducing small variations into tests. - GitHub

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