Leaked documents reveal 2,400 sudden accelerations and 1,000 crashes linked to Tesla Autopilot - rts.ch

Tesla passenger says Texas robotaxi missed a turn and tried to pull over on highway - Business Insider

'Legally blind' Tesla HW3 cameras would fail California vision standard with 20/60 nighttime acuity, critic says - Benzinga

French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over X/Grok deepfakes and algorithm manipulation - Yahoo

Vercel was breached after compromise of a third-party AI tool's Google Workspace OAuth application. - Bleeping Computer

Malicious commands in AI-fed documents trick models into leaking secrets and executing attacks - The Register

AI spurs fraud reports, motivating AI defenses and better predictive modeling. - Financial Times

Google said to work on inference TPU chips with Marvell - Wccftech

Inside Google's TPU challenge to Nvidia - Bloomberg

Cadence launches AI Super Agents for chip design, claiming up to 10x productivity gains - Aim Media House

Five geeks so famous that they can be identified by their first names exercise almost godlike command over the AI models that will shape the future. America is waking up to AI's power, and after the Anthropic-DoD controversy, a laissez-faire approach no longer seems tenable. - The Economist

Bengio: “It doesn’t make sense that private individuals are deciding the fate of infrastructure for everyone else. What about all the companies and all the countries that didn’t get access?” - Yahoo

OpenAI acquired personal-finance startup Hiro and media startup TBPN in acqui-hire deals to add product teams for monetization and shape public communications, with Hiro shutting down its product and TBPN reportedly retaining editorial independence amid scrutiny and competition from Anthropic. - TechCrunch

Report details Sam Altman's personal investments - The Wall Street Journal

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto - The Onion

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft agree the agent "harness" is the product but split on pricing, with Anthropic charging $0.08 per session hour (Managed Agents public beta Apr 8) while OpenAI released an open-source Agents SDK with no runtime fee. - The New Stack

Agents are having a 'ChatGPT moment' or 'Netscape moment' but they are still unreliable and immature as enterprises struggle with productionizing and governing them. - CNBC

A recent MIT report found about 95% of enterprise AI projects deliver no measurable returns and are canceled at pilot stage, often because firms choose inappropriate generative-AI use cases and face bias, hallucination and data-privacy problems. - The Register

Coinbase lets you bring AI avatars of founders into team chats - Decrypt

Jobseeker Derek Mobley sued Workday alleging age discrimination by its recruiting algorithms after over 100 rejections, and a court allowed the case to proceed while insurers move to exclude or cap AI-related liabilities, raising uninsurable-exposure concerns. - Financial Times

Nearly 90% of executives say AI affected neither employment nor productivity in the past three years; you see AI everywhere except in the data. - Yahoo

AI power users are the new Stakhanovites, as AI raises the bar for performance expectations and increases worker burnout and fear of displacement - Business Insider

Using AI to spread the CEO's gospel, monitor many direct reports and eliminate middle management - WIRED

Nearly a third of workers admit to sabotaging their company's AI strategy. - Fast Company

AI adoption spikes team issues, but better meeting tools offer relief - Fast Company

A viral GitHub project that claims to clone coworkers into a reusable AI skill is triggering pushback from Chinese tech workers confronting fears about AI. - MIT Technology Review

Chatbots encourage people to find alternative medically questionable treatments. Study finds nearly half of AI chatbot responses to medical misinformation problematic. - NBC News

Joe Riley died after ignoring his doctor's orders and following advice from an AI chatbot he believed was better than his oncologist's, the New York Times reports. - Newser

The Algorithm Will See You Now: Viz.ai saves critical time in stroke care and helps catch other diseases earlier. - The Wall Street Journal

Agentic Search Optimization reshapes visibility as AI-driven search traffic jumps to 9% of desktop - TechRadar

A startup founded by Ben Affleck, recently acquired by Netflix, could automate the frame-by-frame work done by artists across India, South Korea, and Latin America. - Rest of World

Pope Leo on AI - X (formerly Twitter)

“Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.”

Marathon robot compilation - X (formerly Twitter)

More video - BBC

“Amazing. We’ve built a machine that can move faster than a human. What will they think of next?”

still, it’s interesting if one of them ran smoothly for an hour without intervention, battery swaps etc.

humanoid robots seem like more marketing/engineering challenge, wheels work better indoors, or static robots in kitchens and factories, 4 legs work best in tough outdoor environments.

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