AI Reading for Saturday August 16

Sam Altman thinks we’re in an AI bubble, talks about GPT-5 backlash and the future of OpenAI - The Verge

Dinner with Sam: Life after GPT-5 - TechCrunch

OpenAI Staffers to Sell $6 Billion in Stock to SoftBank, Other Investors at $500b valuation - Bloomberg

Devs say GPT-5 is better at thinking, still prefer Claude for coding - WIRED

Anthropic enabled Claude Opus 4/4.1 to end persistently harmful chats after repeated redirections in consumer apps, testing stronger safeguards. - Anthropic

Anthropic updates TOS, new policy now specifically bans using Claude to help develop biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons; adds cybersecurity rules, loosens political content rules - The Verge

Multi-modal AI depression screening using EEG, eye movement, video / audio monitoring, and gait analysis found promising. - Nature

Scientists develop BCI interface that ‘reads’ thoughts from speech-impaired patients, even made-up words like passwords - news.stanford.edu

Meta is planning a fourth overhaul of its AI efforts in six months, splitting its new Superintelligence Labs into four groups: unnamed "TBD Lab", products team (including the Meta AI assistant), infrastructure team, and Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab. - The Information

Hawley announced a probe of Meta chat policies for minors, and said the investigation will examine “whether Meta’s generative-AI products enable exploitation, deception, or other criminal harms to children, and whether Meta misled the public or regulators about its safeguards,” - CNBC

Some users claim Meta used AI to wrongfully suspend them, like a photographer suspended for child exploitation over their portfolio - WFMJ

Matt Gaetz showed AI-generated women soldiers on OAN - The Independent

New Research Finds That ChatGPT Secretly Has a Deep Anti-Human Bias: LLMs prefer LLM writing to human writing - Futurism

Analysts estimated AI investment added about 0.5 percentage points to U.S. GDP growth - Business Insider

Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations - NPR

Imagen 4 Fast, and general availability of the Imagen 4 family in the Gemini API - Google Developers Blog

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