AI Reading for Friday October 10

10% of the world's population uses ChatGPT every week. ChatGPT was the top-downloaded app on Google Play and the iOS App Store for seven consecutive months in 2025, with 411 million downloads year-to-date, about 800 million weekly active users and over 2.5 billion daily queries. - Business Insider

OpenAI is reportedly developing a 'Clinician Mode' for ChatGPT that would limit medical advice to trusted research sources to reduce misleading or harmful guidance; partnerships like Penda Health reportedly cut diagnostic errors by about 16%. - Digital Trends

OpenAI has deals with Broadcom, Nvidia and AMD for tens of billions of AI chips and GPUs from 2026–2030; Nvidia may invest $100 billion, reflecting OpenAI's central role in driving AI hardware development. - The Economist

OpenAI complains to EU antitrust authorities about data practices of Google, Microsoft, and Apple. - Bloomberg.com

OpenAI’s effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence may be working, slightly better PR acceptance, strong coding scores. - The Information

OpenAI’s Sora has already hit more than 1 million downloads - The Verge

OpenAI's Sora 2 initially let users generate videos with copyrighted characters under an opt-out policy, but reversed course to strict guardrails after rights-holder pressure, causing user backlash and a drop to a 2.9-star rating. - Futurism

Disney exercises Sora opt-out, CAA says Sora hurts creators - Reuters

2018 Stephen Hawking warned advanced AI could surpass humans and pose existential risk; recent AI video tools such as Sora 2 have created disturbing depictions of him and other deceased celebrities, prompting experts including Geoffrey Hinton to urge tighter controls. - LADbible

A Tow Center analysis finds AI-generated videos of public figures—once restricted—are becoming normalized, with politicians like Andrew Cuomo using deepfakes in campaigns. Photorealistic baby Jesus endorsing Trump while the devil endorses his opponent in 3…2…1 - www.cjr.org

Elon and you-know-who gonna have a field day with the deepfake video memes - X (formerly Twitter)

Expert says AI-generated image of missing 4-year-old Australian boy being abducted raises concerns about ethics, traumatizing families, wasting law enforcement resources - ABC Australia

OpenAI's Agent Builder is a visual workflow tool that chains prompts and calls APIs in predefined sequences, lacking the dynamic autonomy and adaptive planning of true AI agents and thus suited to predictable rather than unpredictable tasks. - Hacker Noon

There is a trend of having e.g. a Microsoft Copilot Studio for point and click workflows, and a Microsoft Agent Framework … You should be able to do AI on a loop in a point-and-click UI though. I wonder if you will be able to generate code, host in your Azure tenant, I hate the idea of having to host it in OpenAIs app environment IIUC.

AI agents hit production: 60% adoption, 40% cost savings, MIT failure claims challenged - VentureBeat

Google has rebranded Agentspace as Gemini Enterprise, an AI platform using Gemini models to automate enterprise workflows via no-code interfaces, pre-built agents and integrations with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. - The Register

Gemini Enterprise is official, their full platform for businesses priced $21–$30 per user per month, with Gemini LLMs, agent dev, hosting and discovery, and integrations with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce and SAP for automation. - Yahoo Finance

Amazon Reboots AI Agent for Workers, Taking on ChatGPT, Copilot - Bloomberg

Introducing Figure 03 - FigureAI

AI startups Encord, Micro1 and Scale AI will paying you $25 to $150 per hour to film household chores to generate real-world training data for robotics AI, addressing a dataset bottleneck amid $12.1 billion in VC funding in 2024. - Business Insider

Could robots, even American-made ones, power a US manufacturing comeback? - The Wall Street Journal

Do androids dream of electric hands? Companies like Tesla, Figure and Unitree chase a potential trillion-dollar market for humanoid robots, but making effective hands is extremely hard. Tesla delayed Optimus over dexterity challenges despite simplifying their human hand from 27 degrees of freedom to 22 . - Fast Company

A startup proposes letting anyone train reinforcement learning models in virtual worlds, to democratize AI and spark a U.S. DeepSeek moment. - WIRED

Ex-DeepMind scientist raises $2b at $8b valuation for year-old startup to make open frontier models, also mounting a US challenge to DeepSeek - The New York Times

A small number of glitchy samples can poison LLMs of any size - Anthropic

AI-based machine-learning tools now detect much smaller earthquakes in noisy data, improving seismological records and hazard assessment; experts say it's like putting on glasses, though AI forecasting remains undeveloped. - Ars Technica

Microsoft updated the Windows Copilot app to create Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents from chat and to connect Outlook or Gmail (opt-in) to retrieve emails, invoices and contacts, rolling out to Windows Insiders before general release. - The Verge

Microsoft plans to overhaul GitHub—enhancing Actions, analytics, security and data-compliance, integrating AI across developer environments and creating the CoreAI unit led by Jay Parikh to diversify model partnerships beyond OpenAI and ward off AI coding rivals. - Business Insider

Microsoft in health AI push, seeks to wean itself from dependence on OpenAI - The Wall Street Journal

A Reddit user created Epstein Archive, an open-source AI-powered searchable database indexing over 8,100 files from the House Oversight Committee's 33,000+ page Epstein release using OCR and LLMs; it's available on GitHub and as a torrent. - 404 Media

China has started customs inspections on Nvidia AI chips after Beijing ordered tech firms to stop buying U.S. processors, a move aimed at restricting foreign AI technology access that could disrupt Nvidia's supply chain and slow AI hardware to China. - Financial Times

The U.S. Senate passed new restrictions limiting exports of AI chips from Nvidia and AMD to China in favor of US companies. - Bloomberg

Nvidia can charge $20k for a GPU because cheaper AI chips' lower performance per watt increases total cost of ownership. Nvidia can price chips to extract the NPV of the difference in TCO over the chip's lifetime, taking into account cost of forgoing NVlink, Cuda. But the gap is narrowing. - Tech in Asia

A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips? - The New York Times

China banned Chinese entities from sharing data with Canadian semiconductor researcher TechInsights for national security reasons after TechInsights reported Huawei's Ascend AI chips use components from foreign suppliers like Samsung and TSMC. - CNBC

Some analysts say China could pull ahead in the AI race due to advantages in energy supply and practical application deployment. - Financial Times

S&P 500 soars 35% since April 8 on AI boom and Fed-cut hopes, marking one of six such six-month rallies since 1950. - Yahoo Finance

WSJ readers on how they think artificial intelligence will change the investing game. - The Wall Street Journal

WSJ AI engineer: I’ve Seen How AI ‘Thinks.’ I Wish Everyone Could. - The Wall Street Journal

Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal published a long-form comic essay examining AI-generated art's effects on artists, creative processes and public perception. - The Oatmeal

Former Manchester United player Demetri Mitchell used ChatGPT to negotiate his Leyton Orient contract without an agent, helping him understand terms and living costs and avoid agent fees. - OneFootball

Real estate agents are using AI to help market and sell $50 million penthouses. - The Wall Street Journal

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'Automation bias' causes humans to over-rely on AI, sometimes ignoring correct contrary information; experts call for accountability frameworks, defined oversight and careful AI onboarding. - Fortune

Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”? - The New Yorker

Tesla's Robotaxi service is no Waymo yet. Launched in Austin and the San Francisco Bay Area, it requires a human safety monitor, offers lower costs and broader coverage than Waymo and Uber, but suffers long waits, availability issues and lacks full autonomy or regulatory approval. - Fast Company

The NHTSA has opened a new investigation into Tesla's Full Self-Driving after at least 18 complaints that it ignored red lights and crossed into oncoming traffic, the third NHTSA probe of Tesla in 2025. - Ars Technica

NHTSA launches yet another investigation into Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' after 58 crashes - Electrek

Rebecca Ferguson plays an AI judging Chris Pratt - Mashable

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