AI Reading for Wednesday May 28!

Google took 25 years to be ready for this AI moment. Apple is just starting. - Business Insider

Everybody is talking about Jules, Google is already previewing the next thing. Sleeping giant has awoken. - VentureBeat

Nilay interviewed Sundar Pichai - The Verge

Google’s new virtual-try-on AI puts breasts on minors—and J. D. Vance - The Atlantic

Joanna Stern made an AI film with Veo and other tools. The tools are magic. The process is harder than it looks. - The Wall Street Journal

Musk demanded $5b up front to use Starlink on iPhones, Apple perceived a regulatory threat if they set up a competing option , hampering big ambitions - 9to5Mac

A lot more firms ban the white genocide chatbot compared to other chatbots - The Next Web

"Next year" is serial over-promiser Elon Musk's two weeks, sir story - WIRED

Nadella interviews Musk - X

Tesla seems to be hiring plenty of remote operators who will monitor the self-driving taxis to ensure safety. - Inside EVs

Good for them, but shades of Optimus robots performing party tricks without disclosing they are remotely operated.

Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude - TechCrunch

Mistral adds Agents API - Simon Willison’s Weblog

Meta reorgs AI team to move faster in wake of departures, disappointing Llama 4 rollout - Axios

Character and values are a differentiator in the AI age. OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, and Grok have different personalities. - ZDNET

OpenAI: Sycophantic and corporate

Google: Encyclopedic and matter-of-fact

Claude: Thoughtful and a bit neurotic

Grok: Unhinged

thoughts? let’s ask each model how it would describe the others

AI is all too human now - SingularityHub

Is AI a normal technology that will cause some disruption and improve productivty, or a Pandora's box that will reshape or destroy mankind? East coast vs. West. - The New Yorker

Why AI will kill us all. - Amazon

Agent-principal problem: If you have an AI personal assistant, how do you know you can trust it and the provider is not taking kickbacks? might be something to Claude's aspiration for trustworthy 'constitutional AI' - Harvard Business Review

Getty Images spending millions to battle a 'world of rhetoric' in AI suit, CEO says - CNBC

Battle for AI supremacy in China heats up - The Economist

Big tech recruitment of college grads slowed in 2025, is AI the reason? - TechCrunch

Shadow AI might be the new consulting stack. As McKinsey chops 10%, is ChatGPT the new management consultant? - VentureBeat

A major GitLab code assistant AI vulnerability allowed code exfiltration - TechRepublic

Malicious Machine Learning Model Attack Discovered on PyPI - Infosecurity Magazine

Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool - The Register

ICE taps into nationwide AI enabled camera network - 404 Media

Why AI May Be Listening In on Your Next Doctor’s Appointment - The Wall Street Journal

Driverless Semi Trucks Are Here, With Little Regulation and Big Promises - The New York Times

Law Firm Tagged Over Fake Citations Quietly Deletes Blog Post Encouraging Lawyers To Use AI - Above the Law

Blue books make a comeback in schools and colleges as AI cheating runs rampant - Gizmodo

AI-driven City Harvest type org identifies reusable food waste and redirects it - Food and Drink Technology

Your car can now monitor itself with AI to detect a problem before it happens - Auto Express

Caninoid robots start making deliveries in Austin. Are they allowed to use bike lanes? - TechCrunch

Windows gets command line local LLM, so you could ask your Powershell scripts to perform agentic behaviors, do stuff based on semantics of some text in an email or something. - PCWorld

Open RISC-V, but for GPUs? - GitHub

Your slick UX is just noise to an agent - The Register

Data observability startup Monte Carlo turns its gaze to unstructured data quality - SiliconANGLE

Research Assesses The Use Of Specially Tuned Generative AI For Performing Mental Health Therapy - Forbes

Speculating about what Jony Ive is cooking up… the device from "Her"? Is that Jony or Stanley Tucci? - Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Rabbit Teases Redesigned R1 UI After Design God Jony Ive Disapproves - Gizmodo

DPO vs. RLHF - Together AI

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