AI Reading for Wednesday June 5

Jun 05, 2024

Stuff to expect from WWDC next week, including possibly opt-in AI features. - 9to5Mac

Gurman says Apple got better terms and better tech from OpenAI than Google was offering, unclear if it will be a long-term alliance or a stopgap. - Bloomberg

iOS 18 ChatGPT integration to be opt-in, with Apple’s own chatbot maybe coming in not too-distant future. - BGR

MIT chatbot lets you talk to your future self. - TechXplore

Asana testing a new “AI teammate” who sounds a little bossy. - The Verge

Microsoft makes significant Azure layoffs, blames AI. - Business Insider

Big Tech CFOs are thinking, what can I cut to free up cash for AI. How can I leverage AI to save money to invest more in AI? It’s all AI all the way down.

AI researcher thinks there's a 99.9% chance AI wipes us out. - Business Insider

Will A.I. Be a Creator or a Destroyer of Worlds?

Andreessen and Khosla battle over "whether AI’s future will be one of concentrated safety, or of unfettered advancement." Well, it's definitely a frame, anyway. - Forbes

Yellen says AI has moved toward the top of regulators' agenda of risks to monitor. - CNN

When Google's AI bumps your content down the search results page, but aggregates it in the AI overview. - WIRED

AI hall of mirrors as Perplexity AI-generated pages turn up in Google AI Overviews. - Search Engine Land

Does ChatGPT doom sell-side analysts? - FT

Well, it doesn't understand the dynamics of a business. But a lot of sell-side forecasting is summarizing conventional wisdom and guidance and sales pablum which ChatGPT is good at, and which good analysts can probably leverage to make themselves more productive.