AI Reading for Friday September 26

Sam Altman predicted AI could surpass human intelligence by 2030 and automate 30–40% of tasks, while outlining new hardware plans, per Business Insider. - Business Insider

Elon Musk’s xAI accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets via systematic poaching in new lawsuit - the Guardian

OpenAI benchmark GDPval-v0 asks experienced professionals to compare AI-generated reports with human-produced reports (e.g., investment-banker competitor landscapes) and averages an AI “win rate” - OpenAI

Introducing ChatGPT Pulse, AI will reach out to you with stuff it thinks you should be aware of based on what it knows about you. - OpenAI

Google released a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Data Commons that lets MCP-capable clients and AI agents discover variables, resolve entities, fetch time series, and generate reports from Data Commons via natural‑language queries. - MarkTechPost

Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world - Google DeepMind

Gemini adds more AI, tells you why your Sheets formula broke - The Verge

Gemini 2.5 Flash production updated with better response formatting, image understanding, and new preview launched with more speed/efficiency, better agentic capabilities. - 9to5Google

Judge approves $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors - WTOP News

Requesty is building an AI infrastructure gateway that sits between developers and providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Grok, centralizing governance, security, routing/failover, spending limits and cost optimizations. - Business Insider

similar to portkey, litellm, bifrost

AI coding start-ups reap $7.5bn wave of investment - Financial Times

an epoch-making technology but how much is too much

Amazon blamed AI for layoffs, then hired cheap H1-B workers, senators allege - Ars Technica

Accenture to ‘exit’ staff who cannot be retrained for age of AI - Financial Times

Your job is getting raptured by AI

Companies are sleepwalking into agentic AI sprawl - VentureBeat

MIT spinoff supports agents built with Liquid Nanos, small task-specific foundation models that range from 350 million to 2.6 billion parameters, targeted towards enterprise deployments. - VentureBeat

Add to calendar from an image or screenshot in iOS 26 - ZDNET

Cloudflare announces a stablecoin for payments between AI agents, creators, and developers. - Cointelegraph

AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42 - The Register

US Government will use Musk's Grok AI, which triggered concerns of "inaccuracies, hate speech, and ideological bias", for just $0.42 per organization through 2027. - Boing Boing

A Chinese studio used AI to alter a same‑sex wedding scene, prompting criticism, halted screenings, and censorship debate - NBC News

There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined - The New York Times

Meta is rolling out a preview of Vibes, a tool for discovering, creating and sharing short-form, AI-generated videos - Meta Newsroom

Suno launched Suno Studio, a "generative audio workstation" that combines its music-generation tools (individual stems, multi-track timeline editing, transforming samples/hummed melodies) and exports audio and MIDI - Billboard

Spotify to label AI music, filter spam in AI policy update - TechCrunch

Microsoft blocks the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services after The Guardian reported Israeli authorities stored recordings and data on Azure of up to "a million calls an hour" - The Verge

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza" - the Guardian

Scholars cautioned that personifying AI misleads public understanding and policy, urging precise metaphors and clearer human accountability - The Conversation

Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Peter Thiel. - The Times

techbros gonna turn us all into the Joker. Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

This time you would not be able to help me figure out what happened next. - It's Nice That

Neon takes down viral call-recording app after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts - TechCrunch

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