AI Reading for Wednesday June 18

AWS says Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on its Trainium2 GPUs, and Project Rainier, AWS' supercomputer built for Anthropic, uses 500K+ Trainium2 chips - CNBC

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns staff: Eat or be eaten by AI, expect headcount reductions over the next few years - The Register

Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI. Will transform work, needing fewer people. - Amazon

Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for an AI regulation ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party - Financial Times

The war is on for Congress’ AI law ban - The Verge

California issues AI safety report - The Verge

Musk’s xAI Burns Through $1 Billion a Month as Costs Pile Up, rising to $2b, looking for $100m a month in revenue next year. - Bloomberg

NAACP sues Elon Musk over Memphis pollution - The Hill

Great business…for Nvidia

If OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up, What Does It Mean for Copilot? - CNET

Advertising watchdog says it's confusing and misleading for Microsoft to call everything Copilot - Business Insider

Salesforce adds AI to everything, reports it has limited effectiveness, jacks up prices by 6% - The Register

Popular services keep adding AI. Some customers want them to stop. - The Washington Post

Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers - TechCrunch

Midas Project releases an OpenAI watchdog site - www.openaifiles.org

AI is supercharging war. Could it also help broker peace? - Fast Company

China’s Spy Agencies Are Investing Heavily in A.I., often from US companie - The New York Times

Can AI identify safety threats in schools? One district wants to try. - The Washington Post

Toy-maker Mattel accused of planning “reckless” AI social experiment on kids - Ars Technica

Potential for algorithmic bias and discrimination claims exposes employers to risks when using AI-driven HR tools for decisions in hiring, promotions, evaluations, and compensation, under laws like Title VII, the ADEA, the ADA, and the Equal Pay Act. - Ogletree

For a fee, Final Round AI will coach you for your big interview ($81 per month for 'God Mode') - CNET

Reid Hoffman says it's premature to worry about an AI jobs bloodbath - Fast Company

Building AI Capabilities Into Portfolio Companies at Apollo - MIT Sloan Management Review

Poll Finds Public Turning To AI Bots For News Updates - International Business Times

Execs share 5 key ways the TV and film industry is transforming - Business Insider

Adobe made a mobile app for its Firefly generative AI tools - The Verge

How one biotech company sold over 500,000 AI-powered home health testing kits to give advice based on your saliva, blood, and stool, without cutting corners on science - Business Insider

Ultrahuman's new AI tool claims itcan predict your risk for cancer, fatigue, and more - here's what it costs - ZDNET

Robot nurses in hospitals are here, helping with disinfection, patient monitoring, and other tasks - Hacker Noon

Waymo is gradually expanding its borders in California - The Verge

Google's Gemini gets stressed when playing Pokémon - TechCrunch

Anysphere said to field unsolicited offers at \$18b valuation - Bloomberg

Anysphere launches a \$200-a-month Cursor AI coding subscription - TechCrunch

Bob McGrew, former chief research officer at OpenAI, stated that vibe coding can create "really cool prototypes" but professional software engineers are still needed to rebuild and maintain the code - Business Insider

Future AI processors could draw up to 15,360 watts of power, demand exotic immersion and embedded cooling - Tom's Hardware

Why AI hardware needs to be open - MIT Technology Review

Pope Leo makes AI’s threat to humanity a signature issue - TechCrunch

Pope Leo takes on AI - WSJ

Do agent success rates decay exponentially as tasks get longer? - Toby Ord

TCV cofounder Jay Hoag slams VCs' AI herd mentality: 'like 7-year-olds playing soccer' - Business Insider

AI researchers perceived more negatively than climate scientists or scientists in general - Phys.org

Sequoia-backed Crosby launches a new kind of AI-enabled law firm - TechCrunch

Will your LLM follow an injected prompt to do something shady? - Anthropic

Man Unable to Sleep When His AI-Controlled Mattress Suffers an Outage - Futurism

Nation Cringes as Man Goes on TV to Declare That He's in Love With ChatGPT - Futurism

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