AI Reading for Monday September 8

slow news day, yay

The story of Optimus, the humanoid robot at the heart of Elon Musk's growth plans for Tesla - Business Insider - Washington Post

OpenAI to lead $30m animated 'Critterz', planned to debut in 9 months - The Wall Street Journal

Wizard of Oz might be a hit, on track for $1b box office if it has legs (really?) - Bloomberg

Vodafone influencer is fake - The Verge

Google Might Make AI Mode Default Search Soon (Maybe Not...) - Search Engine Roundtable

Google clarified Gemini 2.5 Pro usage caps: five daily prompts for free users, 100 for AI Pro, 500 for AI Ultra - The Verge

AWS AI underperformance … Trainium only takes you so far when you don't have your own foundation LLM or a proper agent framework / engine - SemiAnalysis

All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner. Says go with big enterprise cloud vendors like GCP (to me seems ahead of AWS and Azure), not OpenAI which is a 'wildcard', even though most people prefer ChatGPT Enterprise to Copilot and Gemini. - The Register

As Sam Altman and Nvidia temper expectations, has the valuation bubble gotten out of hand? - Quartz

How bad will the bust be when the bubble bursts? - The Atlantic

How the AI Boom Is Leaving Consultants Behind - The Wall Street Journal

AI is supercharging Gen Z workers — if they can land a job - The Washington Post

TFW the boss says you’re like family, we could use a few thousnd less of. - Washington Post

As Apple updates iPhones, could AI make them passé? - NY Times

Early-20s founders follow previous generations and ditch college for startups - Business Insider

As software eats the world and everything is mediated online, what is in the software matters, not what the law says, unless someone polices it, and now AI software 3.0 is eating software, and what AI says is law. - Hacker Noon

Maybe worry less about the reverse acquihire social contract and more about replacing the founding fathers' social contract of a modern constitutional state with techno-fascism - YouTube

How Manus's Yichao “Peak” Ji became a global AI app hitmaker - MIT Technology Review

Driverless cars coming to Munich - The Verge

Xpeng EV to debut in Europe, goes for $42k in China - Yahoo Finance

Meet the 2025 AI Darwin Award nominees - AI Darwin Awards

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