Can Robotaxis survive London? AI Reading for Monday June 16

ChatGPT Search gets an upgrade as OpenAI takes aim at Google - Bleeping Computer

ChatGPT's AI coder Codex now lets you generate multiple solutions and cherry-pick the best one - Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Code Researcher: Deep Research Agent for Large Systems Code and Commit History - Microsoft

Coding agents have crossed a chasm - Singleton Blog

AI coding tools upend the 'buy versus build' software equation and threaten the SaaS business model. - Business Insider

Sometimes you buy a big SaaS for 1 or 2 features you need in your workflow that you could just vibe-code.

Ready or Not, Agentic AI Is Disrupting Corporate Landscapes - The New Stack

Tomorrow’s financiers are learning to leverage machine learning and AI - Financial Times

The lethal trifecta - Simon Willison

• access to internal data

• access to external tools

• untrusted prompts / outputs (and any amount of guardrails and sanitizing will eventually be defeated)

Why Waymo cars became sitting ducks during the L.A. protests. - NBC News

London is a big test for robotaxis. It ain't Phoenix, might not work without people messing with them, cautious taxis gridlocking narrow chaotic streets, needing remote operator intervention and geo-fencing out of certain areas or redesigned roads. - Business Insider

Nvidia CEO slams Anthropic's chief over his claims of AI taking half of jobs and being unsafe — ‘Don’t do it in a dark room and tell me it’s safe’. Also believes that AI technologies will open more career opportunities in the future. - Tom's Hardware

BT boss Kirkby expects AI to deepen job cuts, FT reports - Reuters

“I’m really convinced that anybody whose job is done on a computer all day is over. It’s just a matter of time,” one engineer told Michelle Del Rey - The Independent

Tales from the wrong side of the revolution.

Scott Galloway has some choice metaphors to describe AI's impact on workers: 'I think of it as corporate Ozempic' - Business Insider

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad? So what if we have armies of interns who act like they are high on ketamine? - The New York Times

“If history, per the adage, is written by the winners, then it’s not premature to wonder how the winners of the A.I. race might soon shape the stories that historians tell about the past.” - The New York Times

How AI can help make cities work better for residents. Big opportunities to improve services, and screw up massively. - MIT Technology Review

Chinese start-up applies AI to help Nike, Gap, Urban Revivo predict fashion trends - South China Morning Post

AI is the control layer for everything, and race between US and China resembles Cold War. - Cointelegraph

except very little ideological daylight between the CCP and Marc Andreessen, nationalism, make some people rich at the top through crony capitalism, enforce ideological purity, camps for Muslims.

The AI Industry Is Ready to Get Rich off Trump’s Defense Department - The New Republic

Alexandr Wang waiting for brain implants to have kids: “When we get Neuralink and we get these other technologies, kids who are born with them are gonna learn how to use them in like crazy, crazy ways” - The Economic Times

John Giannandrea’s complete absence from WWDC may be a clear sign that he won’t be around at Apple for long. - PhoneArena

Why the rebuttal to Apple's paper on limits of reasoning models misses the mark. - Victor A Martinez

Terence Tao says today's AIs generate proofs that look flawless, but the mistakes are subtle. - Reddit

Your Brain on ChatGPT: EEG Shows Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task - arXiv.org

AMA passed a resolution demanding explainable AI tools in medical imaging with third-party verification for safety - Politico

From crypto to transport, AI-powered ID fraud is wrecking industries before they even know it’s coming - TechRadar

AI Deepfakes Drove 40% of High-Value Crypto Fraud Last Year: Report - Decrypt

AI is defeating biometric security - CDOTrends

Midjourney drops insane video models - xcancel.com

Economic miracles stem from discovery of deeper insights, not repeating tasks at greater speed. Oxford author of "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations” - Financial Times

(sometimes creativity is a search process though?)

Elon Musk working on fixing Grok's 'leftist indoctrination', so we got that going for us, which is nice. It’s not done until it knows the truth about ‘far left’ violence. Violence against truth FTW.

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