AI Reading for Saturday, October 4

Early Sora 2 usage shows meme-heavy deepfakes and copyrighted characters, highlighting moderation and IP concerns. - Mashable

OpenAI will give rights holders granular controls in Sora and test revenue sharing as it explores monetization. - Reuters

OpenAI dev day Monday … Jony Ive talking devices, possible browser announcement… enterprise focus my ass. - VentureBeat

Ed Zitron is not a fan. One thing OpenAI is not really, is an enterprise AI company. ChatGPT Enterprise is popular, but they have ceded coding to Anthropic, heavy agentic frameworks and hosting to Google, and wholesale enterprise API to Microsoft while chasing buzzy consumer-facing sizzle. - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Every day, in every way, everything is getting worse and dumber - Newcomer

Government of the shitposters, by the shitposters, for the shitposters: Trump Spends Night 2 Of Shutdown Flooding The Internet With AI Nonsense - HuffPost

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Open-source Microsoft Agent Framework allows developers to build complex multi-agent workflows using .NET or Python, resolves confusion about how to build and deploy agents (AutoGen, SK, Copilot Studio, AI Foundry, etc.) - InfoWorld

GitHub Copilot adds agent mode, prompt management, model switching, and MCP tool discovery in VS Code Insiders, chasing Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf/Devin - Hacker Noon

In the hallways of Princeton, @drfeifei.bsky.social's fascination with the human mind unlocked the power of deep learning - Princeton University

The AI Chip Wars Are Dead. Long Live the System Wars. From speeding up chips to speeding up rack and datacenter-size clusters. - DataCenterKnowledge

AI data centers are gobbling up resources, and they're growing fast. - Engadget

AI hyperscalers are reserving the world's memory and storage capacity years in advance, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade - Tom's Hardware

Naveen Rao, former head of AI at DataBricks, aims to compete with Nvidia by “rethinking the foundations of a computer to build a new substrate for intelligence that is as efficient as biology. Brain Scale Efficiency without the biological baggage!” - TechCrunch

Quantum computing is a path to energy-efficient AI, for instance training with quantum annealing - Fast Company

Jeff Bezos says AI is a bubble but society will reap 'gigantic' benefits from enduring innovations - CNBC

Bezos says AI is a bubble. Theyre sll saying it now - Bloomberg

Can’t believe I’m foreals going to live thru an actual economic collapse. - MarketWatch

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse - Futurism

A profile of Anjad Masad and Replit - TechCrunch

Why Goldman's CEO thinks the bank will have more people in 10 years — not less — thanks to AI - Business Insider

'AI ultimatum' policies spread - The Times of India

Use AI or get the sack - Futurism

Companies spend $100B on wellness while the $1.5T spent on AI adoption kills employee morale. - Inc.

Friend device's subway adds draw hatred. "Befriend something human" - Futurism

University of San Francisco issued an alert after reports of a man using Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses to film students while making "unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions" for clickbait influencer content probably. - SFGate

YouTube removes hundreds of AI-generated Bollywood videos - The Times of India

China primarily focusing on AI application layer, but also has the AGI/ASI fever - NBC News

more cowbell

AI Models Cheat Medical Tests. AI successes can be cherry-picked, reflect skin-deep understanding, “medical benchmark scores do not directly reflect real‑world readiness,” models can produce “convincing yet flawed reasoning” or “correct answers supported by fabricated reasoning”. - Forbes

Reasoning LLMs reflect on the consequences of their thoughts, and revise them when needed, a defining feature of human intelligence. "I think, therefore I am?" - Language Log

Alexa+ early access is free now on select Echo devices, with a planned $20 monthly price later. - ZDNET

I'm 16 and just raised $1 million for my AI project despite being average at school. Here's why it helps to be delusional. - Business Insider

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