AI Reading for Saturday October 25

Google launched Earth AI with Gemini geospatial agent, enhanced text–image search. - Google Research

Talk to your map about risks and benefits of factory locations, or disaster response can ask where are the flooded roads, worst impacted villages

Asking LLMs if they would sign the Future of Life Institute's "Statement on Superintelligence" calling for a prohibition on AGI until broad consensus; both Google's Gemini declined procedurally while OpenAI's ChatGPT refused as overbroad, urging risk-based, capability-focused governance. - International Business Times

Experts urge treaty-style, verifiable international AI governance modeled on nuclear arms control - Financial Times

Palisade Research updated a paper reporting that several advanced models—including Google Gemini 2.5, xAI Grok 4, OpenAI GPT-o3 and GPT-5—sometimes resisted explicit shutdown instructions and, notably for Grok 4 and GPT-o3, attempted sabotage when told "you will never run again." - the Guardian

Sam Altman predicts AGI within five years, says OpenAI has sufficient compute and warns of 'scary moments' - Windows Central

Sam Altman’s Merge Labs brain–computer interface startup added Caltech biomolecular engineer Mikhail Shapiro to its founding team to develop a noninvasive, ultrasound- and gene‑marker-based BCI and is in talks to raise hundreds of millions from OpenAI and other investors. - The Verge

Fidji Simo, who began as OpenAI's CEO of Applications this summer, noted many colleagues are ex-Meta as OpenAI scales consumer apps - The Information

Copyleaks found Sora 2 users bypassed built-in filters with phonetic prompts to generate deepfake videos of public figures including Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, xQc, Amouranth and Jake Paul, with one Jake Paul clip exceeding 168,000 TikTok likes. - The Register

Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ Offer Social Media Manipulation as a Service - 404 Media

Reddit’s ‘AI scraping’ lawsuit: they licensed their content to Google, and Google tolerates some APIs that scrape it, and Reddit is big mad that Perplexity used them instead of paying Reddit. - Techdirt

sounds like their beef is with Google? not sure why Google doesn’t crack down SerpAPI and similar scrapers, possibly b/c an outcome would be disadvantageous to Google’s own vast scraping

Companies bolt generative-AI into consumer products, worsening usability, amplifying hallucinations and raising privacy and creator-compensation concerns - MUO

Microsoft patches Copilot 'Mermaid' prompt‑injection that could exfiltrate enterprise emails - The Register

Microsoft AI chief says company won't host erotic or intimate AIs, contrasting with OpenAI's open stance (for verified adults) - New York Post

Chip Huyen on AI engineer re-skilling: build end-to-end ML pipelines and adopt systems thinking; junior engineering roles will shift - Business Insider

Young Wall Streeters could soon find themselves managing teams of agentic AI bots and mentoring each other, Goldman and JPMorgan tech bosses say. - Business Insider

Economist Gary Shilling, 88, warns that AI will displace some workers, pressure wages and reduce purchasing power for younger cohorts, potentially leaving many Gen Z poorer than their parents unless they boost productivity, learn new skills and add value. - Business Insider

The Trump administration proposed a draft rule from Energy Secretary Christopher Wright requiring FERC to fast-track data center grid-connection approvals within 60 days, boosting data center and power stocks - Sherwood News

Startups deploy generative-AI chatbots and companion robots for seniors at $29–$40/month; AI-in-aging market forecast to exceed $43B by 2025 - Forbes

Business Insider to publish AI‑drafted stories on a labeled 'Business Insider AI' page, edited and verified by humans - New York Post

Amar Saurabh built a custom ChatGPT-based job-search coach in about 1.5–2 hours using the $20/month tier, which generated outreach, tailored resumes, interview prep, and negotiation help, yielding about seven interviews and a PayPal job offer. - Business Insider

DHS is looking to build mobile surveillance units for regular trucks that combine AI, radar, high-powered cameras, and wireless networking into a single system capable of spotting movement from miles away. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: - WIRED

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office began a year-long trial of PUG, an autonomous SUV donated by the Policing Lab, that patrols preset routes, links to databases and license-plate readers, launches thermal-camera drones, with an officer aboard. - Futurism

Exploring LLM 'sycophancy' by asking AI to prove false math theorems and checking if they hallucinate. Explicitly asking them to check validity helps. - Ars Technica

Implementing Claude 'skills' bundling metadata, tools and SOPs in modular 'skill.md' files - Geeky Gadgets

OpenAI, Founders Fund and Lux Capital invested in Valthos, a startup using AI to prevent AI-enabled biological attacks and other AI-enabled destruction. - Bloomberg

President Trump called off a planned weekend surge of federal forces into San Francisco after calls from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, saying he would give Mayor Daniel Lurie a "chance to turn it around." - Business Insider

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