AI Reading for Monday July 28

ChatGPT Encouraged Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice - Futurism

OpenAI sends the same boilerplate response every single time they are asked to comment on ChatGPT-linked mental health crises - Futurism

The Google Search era internet is dying. The rise of AI search is coming with a brutal cost for traditional websites. For some businesses, it's nothing short of an existential crisis - Quartz

How Google capitalizes on its broad access to websites while content creators lose visitors and revenue, and leverages its massive search base to cement dominance despite antitrust issues. - Bloomberg

AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's a Look Under the Hood - CNET

Google DeepMind and OpenAI won gold medals at the math Olympics—but these American teenagers still got higher scores. Will this be the last time humans outperform AI? - The Wall Street Journal

AI innovation is now a JPMorgan operating committee mandate, with its LLM Suite used daily by half the bank - Forbes

Samsung gets huge $16.5b order to make Tesla’s AI6 chips in Texas - Financial Times

Elon Musk’s xAI launches romantic AI companions, he claims to be concerned about falling (white) birthrates, but aren't perfect AI partners antithetical to human interaction? - Futurism

DOGE's AI tool misreads law, still tasked with deleting half of US regulations - TechSpot

Fareed Zakaria interviews Bill Gates on navigating the future of AI - CNN

Autonomous AI agents now complete complex tasks, but require oversight due to hallucinations and risks of things going awry - The Conversation

OpenAI: A practical guide to building agents - OpenAI

Will AI help you work or replace you? Anthropic’s study shows AI currently augments more tasks than it automates, but coding roles face 80 % automation risk. - The Washington Post

AI is driving mass layoffs in tech, but it's boosting salaries by $18,000 a year in non-tech roles for AI-enhanced roles, study says (!) - Fortune

AI might make workers faster, but not necessarily more productive: ‘They do it faster, then go for coffee breaks’. Faster task completion may not raise productivity unless everything around it is reorganized around AI augmentation. - Fortune Asia

Andrew Yang shared that a partner at a major law firm said AI can now perform tasks previously done by 1st to 3rd year associates, such as generating legal motions in an hour instead of a week, often with better quality, signaling a shift in the legal job market and value of a law degree. - Reddit

GitHub Spark entered public preview, letting developers build full-stack apps via natural language, visual blocks, or code without manual setup. - Hacker Noon

Ruby on Rails creator DHH on AI, Vibe Coding and the Future of Programming - The New Stack

Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs - Geoffrey Litt

Enterprise SaaS is less sticky when you can vibe-code as an alternative - Crunchbase News

Bots strain travel websites, manipulate flight searches, squat on bookings, and possibly raise prices - TechRadar

Could Airbnb Build the Ultimate AI Travel Agent Bot? - Skift

Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less - MIT Technology Review

China says it wants the world to work together to govern AI. The US, not so much. - Business Insider

AI tech startups evangelize the 996 hust from China, which entails people working 6 days, 9am to 9pm, a total of 72 hours per week. - Futurism

Chinese consumer GPU Lisuan 7G106 runs Chinese AAA titles at 4K over 70 FPS and matches RTX 4060 in benchmarks - Tom's Hardware

Huawei shows off 384-GPU rack system publicly - Reuters

1/2 the power efficiency of Nvidia but if you have the power it's not really that big a deal - SemiAnalysis

Alibaba debuts its first AI smart glasses - Tech in Asia

Mark Cuban said the Trump administration needs to crack down on stealthy sponsored responses AI models - Business Insider

Maple Scan app helps Canadians analyze products by ownership, manufacturing location, local content to avoid Trump tariffs - Business Insider

US buyout group Brightstar has agreed to buy 50% stake in Arden University in deal worth more than $1bn, to expand AI-focused programs. - Financial Times

Alpha School: A.I.-Driven Education Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You - The New York Times

AI is transforming the lives of neurodivergent people in real time - Reuters

Can Artificial Intelligence Learn the Nuances of Human Humor? - Smithsonian Magazine

An AI-based optimization model used reinforcement learning computer vision, and affective computing to dynamically adjust screens and increase viewing of exhibits by 50% - Nature

kind of like optimizing a web site flow using RL and A/B testing, except in the real world

McKinsey says agentic AI is transforming marketing by managing full pay per click campaign workflows autonomously - PPC Land

University of Florida researchers optimize herbicide sprays with AI, reducing input costs by 75% - www.thepacker.com

Software group Auterion to ship 33,000 retrofit AI drone ‘strike kits’ to Ukraine to defeat drone swarms - Financial Times

Germany increases military budget, invests in AI robots, unmanned submarines, and cyborg cockroaches for surveillance. - Malay Mail

TSMC and Intel’s approach to backside power are downstream of their cultures: customer-centric versus self-serving. It may doom the latter. - Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Soaring data-center demand lifted Ohio electricity bills by $27 a month - The Washington Post

“The Wizard of Oz” is being enhanced with AI for immersive display at the Las Vegas Sphere - Yahoo Finance

Bollywood tearjerker to be re-released with AI-generated happy ending - the Guardian

Marley and Me, but the dog gets cloned and lives forever; Life is Beautiful, but the concentration camp gets liberated at the last second

Higgsfield’s new browser extension lets users recreate online images - BGR

Remembering the great Tom Lehrer - YouTube

a simpler time when the multitalented math genius was as likely to skewer the tech bros as be one

Ruh roh - Reddit

AI-generated video of the coming robot uprising

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