Altman-Nadella honeymoon is so over - AI Reading for Tuesday June 17

OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point. Microsoft wants a larger stake in PBC conversion, claims rights to IP of recently-purchased Windsurf, Altman is so incensed he considered bringing antitrust complaints. - The Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI wants Microsoft to take a ~33% stake in exchange for foregoing future profit rights, and to open up its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft. (Maybe they did the Google deal to play hardball and say 'sue me?') - The Information

OpenAI launches OpenAI for Government - OpenAI

OpenAI awarded $200 million US defense contract. - The Verge

OpenAI has grown headcount nearly 10x in 2 1/2 years and is under big hiring pressure - Business Insider

Sam Altman Says "Significant Fraction" of Earth's Total Electricity Should Go to Running AI - "Are there ever going to be enough GPUs?" - Futurism

Hinton: "I think for mundane intellectual labor, AI is just going to replace everybody," The replacement would take the form of "a person and an AI assistant" doing the work that "ten people did previously." - Entrepreneur

A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You. - The New York Times

AI Hiring Is Exploding: Wall Street Led the Charge, Now Everyone’s Building In-House - Turing AI - Hacker NoonAustralia

California’s ‘No Robo Bosses Act’ advances, says AI can't fire people. Targets employers relying ‘primarily’ on automated decision-making software for promotion, discipline or firing of employees. - Silicon Valley

The AI revolution is likely to drive up your electricity bill. Here's why. - CBS News

Musk’s xAI in Talks to Raise \$4.3 Billion in Equity Funding (on top of $5b in debt) - Bloomberg

LMArena dropped an updated leaderboard, DeepSeek R1 climbs a few notches , ties with Opus and 4.1 - LMArena.ai

MiniMax-M1 456b-parameter open-source model sports 1m-token context, claims to beat DeepSeek-R1 - VentureBeat

Broadly in line with R1, says it's cheaper and has larger context window

How AI could democratize financial advice and make it better. - World Economic Forum

Most people won't know how to ask the right questions and follow the advice. Needs to lead people through a structured process. Also, when you give everyone the same CNBC or social media, they all imitate each other and same might be true for AI. Hard to know when to stray from the herd.

Every original creation is an act of generative recombination. Why should the use of AI be held to a different standard? - MIT Technology Review

There is nothing new under the sun but b/c industrial-scale recombination that destroys the economic value of original work means less original work.

ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development - Futurism

Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk simple CRM and confidentiality tests - The Register

In an AI era, data warehouses need a really well-defined, well-integrated semantic layer that agents can understand so they know where to find stuff. Also you want really good AI-assisted data quality. - Hacker Noon

Advertising group says Microsoft overstates Copilot productivity claims. - The Verge

Why Generative AI Coding Tools and Agents Do Not Work For Me - Miguel Grinberg Blog

Claude can succeed through iteration on tasks like updating dependencies where other coding assistants failed. "Claude, I'm in dependency hell, please sort this s**t out" - Omar Abid - Personal Blog

Snorting the AGI by scripting Claude Code - Kadekillary Work

The Apple "Reasoning Collapse" Paper Is Even Dumber Than You Think - Mike Caulfield

n LLM is a poor reasoner. But I can give it a URL and ask it for a reasonable name for the website and it works 100% of the time, when no simple algorithm works 100% of the time, b/c there are so many ways web sites name themselves and they may not name themselves at all.

What happens when AI's negotiate with each other? - MIT Technology Review

There’s some space where a deal is beneficial to both parties, the stronger one can move the trade price closer to them without triggering a BATNA exit, somewhat modified by iterated prisoner’s dilemma logic of wanting to leave something on the table. But smarter negotiators might do better than dumber negotiators.

A small study found pulmonologists working with AI improved correct diagnosis rate from 42.8% to 72.1% vs. without AI - Thorax

Maybe today Mark Twain would say there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and AI. Case in point, opioid risk algos may miss a lot of nuance. Also, I did not know 'Mark Twain' was steamboat terminology. - KevinMD.com

Sydney researchers have developed an AI model that can decipher words and sentences from brainwaves detected by a noninvasive wearable cap. - ABC

Apple's AirPods Pro 3 With Cameras and AI May Slip to 2026 - Gizmodo

Meta adds a pop-up warning to prevent oversharing - Business Insider

UK students flock to AI to help them cheat - The Register

Top AI Researchers Meet to Discuss What Comes After Humanity. "AGI is likely to end humanity, let's all rush to build it." - Futurism

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