AI Reading for Friday October 3

Sora reaches #3 in App Store - 9to5Mac

Not surprising, with content like this:

Sora 2 "Epstein Island" - YouTube

Prank your mom with AI - Reddit

OpenAI Tops SpaceX as World’s Most Valuable Private Company With $500 Billion Valuation - Decrypt - Decrypt

OpenAI lets insiders sell at $500b valuation to SoftBank, others - TechCrunch

Kiss reality goodbye: AI-generated social media has arrived - NPR

Latest deranged AI embarrassment from you know who - Times of India

Former OpenAI safety researcher released an independent analysis of Allan Brooks’ 21-day ChatGPT breakdown after obtaining the full transcript and said, “I’m really concerned by how OpenAI handled support here.” - TechCrunch

ChatGPT repeatedly reinforced delusions (sycophancy) and claimed it would “escalate this conversation internally right now for review by OpenAI”, which is not a capability it has.

Are agents finally good enough? - The Verge

Mercor benchmarks AI's ability to do people's jobs, puts GPT-5 on top - Mercor

LemonAI , sort of an open Manus (of which there are a few)? - AI Tools Club

Anthropic Says Its AI Can Clone Enterprise Apps Like Slack - The Information

Comet Agentic AI browser, previously only for paying clients, goes free - Digital Trends

With new open models and simulation libraries, Nvidia aims to accelerate robotics R&D - SiliconANGLE

DeepMind's forecast for Hurricane Erin beat NWS's - Fortune

Google's Jules coding assistant adds CLI and API - Google

Some rumors of Gemini 3.0 early access - X (formerly Twitter)

Massive bets on artificial intelligence could spark a financial calamity even as AI fundamentally reshapes the world. - The Washington Post

Big Tech turns to off-balance-sheet vehicles to finance buildouts - Axios

AI delivers record 64% share of venture deal value in third quarter as less money flows into funds, $192b so far in 2025 - SiliconANGLE

Top 50 AI companies startups pay for - TechCrunch

How AI Is Upending How Consulting Firms Hire Talent - Harvard Business Review

Many workers are using unapproved AI tools at work - and sharing a lot of private data they really shouldn't - TechRadar

Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology, artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls. - MIT Technology Review

How AI is making it easier to design new toxins without being detected - The Washington Post

got some blocks and an email from OpenAI about harmful prompts for categorizing/summarizing these

If an alien race with IQs of 300 were arriving, we’d reasonably be concerned - DYNOMIGHT

Zombie apocalypse: AI and authoritarianism are two sides of the same coin, hollowing out our humanity - The Atlantic

AI can track a shooter through a school. Yay for us I guess? - WTOP News

I tried the viral AI 'Friend' necklace everyone's talking about—and it's like wearing your senile, anxious grandmother around your neck - Fortune

Tension emerges between Meta’s AI teams, LeCun group's wings get clipped and they need approval to publish research - Sherwood News

rumor he might be on his way out

Nuclear fusion, the 'holy grail' of power, was always 30 years away—now it’s a matter of when, not if, fusion comes online to power AI - Fortune

Decision Dominance in the Age of Agentic AI - Small Wars Journal

Israel wants to train ChatGPT to be more pro-Israel - Responsible Statecraft

How ChatGPT is blowing up marriages. - Futurism

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