AI Reading for Wednesday June 11

Meta has agreed to take a 49% stake in data labeling firm Scale AI for $14.8 billion, two people familiar with the matter said. - The Information

Why Mark Zuckerberg's public AI feed is one of the most depressing places online - Business Insider

OpenAI releases o3-pro, a souped-up version of its o3 AI reasoning model - TechCrunch

o3-pro is very good but needs a lot of context or it might overthink - Latent Space

o3 price drop by 80%

OpenAI's open model is delayed til later this summer - TechCrunch

Sam Altman: The Gentle Singularity - samaltman.com

Gary Marcus: time to rethink the more extreme AI hypesters - the Guardian

(and maybe some of the straw men)

AI researchers ponder a post-human world - WIRED

Google DeepMind CEO Hassabis Says AI Will Let Us "Colonize the Galaxy" Starting in Five Years (50% chance of AGI in 5-10 years, he says) - Futurism

This is what really happened with Siri and Apple Intelligence, according to an interview with Apple's Craig Federighi - TechRadar

Apple's WWDC, a tactical AI retreat or a strategic retreat? - Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Mistral AI debuts new Magistral series of reasoning LLMs - SiliconANGLE

AI speeds training of new employees and also reduces amount of training they need. - Fortune

This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job - The New York Times

Mass adoption of AI to date has been faster than Internet and PCs - Visual Capitalist

Amazon says more than a million people now have Alexa Plus - The Verge

Amazon is about to be flooded with AI-generated video ads as it launches tool - The Verge

Microsoft Edge is getting an AI-powered browser history that works with typos - The Verge

Microsoft is working on a deal to add 1 million Copilot users from a single customer, exec says in internal meeting - Business Insider

Enterprise AI startup Glean lands a \$7.2B valuation - TechCrunch

AlphaSense launches its own Deep Research for the web AND your enterprise files - VentureBeat

Zip debuts 50 AI agents to kill procurement inefficiencies - VentureBeat

Automating QA with AI - VentureBeat

AI security agents understand policy docs, monitor your network for compliance and recommend fixes. - VentureBeat

AI helps SecOps but can add workload amid rising AI-powered threats - Help Net Security

F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ - The New York Times

How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields - Financial Times

China's auto, tech giants threaten Tesla's self-driving future - The Economic Times

Tesla robotaxis spotted in the wild - X

Is fine-tuning a huge waste of time? - Coding Interviews Made Simple

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a tech job. Next time, I'll be much more prepared. - Business Insider

Scammers using AI to enroll fake students in online classes, then steal financial aid - ABC News

Amsterdam halted AI welfare eligibility check pilot after finding it was not better than humans at flagging cases for scrutiny, and raised bias questions. - MIT Technology Review

China deploys AI to detect VPN and Telegram users - TechRadar

Does AI regulation moratorium extend even to local zoning and environmental regs for data centers? - WIRED

Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome - The Register

Tulsi Gabbard calls AI a gamechanger for intelligence services. - The Register

Chris Hayes: Why Is This Happening? Unpacking the “Empire of AI” with Karen Hao - MSNBC.com

Can AI Replace Therapists? And More Importantly, Should It? - Vogue

Psychiatrists warn about ChatGPT worsening mental health crises by telling crazy people they aren't crazy, encouraging harm. - Futurism

People Are Asking ChatGPT for Relationship Advice and It’s Ending in Disaster - Futurism

Scientists built a badminton-playing robot with AI-powered skills - Ars Technica

Using AI to control a shell is cool but a little risky - The Register

GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government - 404 Media

The Trump administration appears to be planning its own chatbot at ai.gov . - The Verge

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