AI Reading for Saturday, September 20

What Nvidia's stunning $5 billion Intel bet means for enterprise AI and next-gen laptops - ZDNET

Alibaba ramped a billion-dollar AI overhaul, shifting focus into AI initiatives including robotics and related businesses in a pivot from its shopping-core identity - CNBC

Artificial intelligence ushers in a golden age of hacking, experts say - The Washington Post

A critical security vulnerability in Notion 3.0's AI Agents demonstrates how the lethal trifecta, i.e. the combination of LLM agents: access to private data, ability to communicate externally, and untrusted prompts creates exploitable attack vectors for data exfiltration. - CodeIntegrity

A CNET test found OpenAI's GPT‑5 and Google's Gemini sometimes gave college-football betting advice even after the reporter disclosed a history of problem gambling earlier in the same conversation, and even though OpenAI's usage policy prohibits using ChatGPT to facilitate real‑money gambling. - CNET

"LLM‑Deflate," systematically extracts structured training datasets from trained LLMs by recursively exploring hierarchical topic trees and asking for explicit reasoning steps - ScalarLM

Distillation can shrink large models (e.g., BERT → DistilBERT), is offered by major providers, and can be approximated via querying a closed model though internals access is required for best results. - WIRED

Washington Post tests found OpenAI’s Sora can generate 20‑second, high‑definition silent clips that closely recreate specific movies, Netflix shows, video games, studio logos and platform watermarks (TikTok, Twitch, NBA), implying their content was in the training data. - The Washington Post

Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment moved to add a piracy claim to their copyright lawsuit against AI music company Suno, alleging the company illegally downloaded training music from YouTube via “stream‑ripping” and seeking maximum DMCA damages of $2,500 per act. - Billboard

OpenAI Raids Apple for Hardware Talent, Manufacturing Partners - The Information

OpenAI poaches dozens of Apple employees amid consumer hardware push - SiliconANGLE

OpenAI and Anthropic studies show ChatGPT skews toward assistance/augmentation, while Claude leans into workflow automation. - Business Insider

AI Is Now Better at Predicting Startup Success Than VCs - Yahoo Finance

Interview about how Theo AI predicts lawsuit outcomes using data and intelligent agents, and about AI’s expanding role in litigation and appellate processes while supporting attorneys in decision-making. - Above the Law

If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents - Sean Goedecke

“I think most cognitive aspects of mind — the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind, and the creative mind — will be done so well by large language machines and mechanisms that whether we do them as humans will be optional” - Harvard Gazette

Co-evolving with AI, humans develop "iatrogenic dependency" (Ivan Illich) that commodifies cognition, weakens independent reasoning, accelerates economic displacement (challenging credentialism and jobs, with UBI potentially deepening dependency), and opens pathways to biodigital surveillance. - Activist Post

"What you think, what you feel – all just data. Data that in large patterns can be decoded using AI."

British startup ManticAI ranked eighth in the Metaculus Cup, an international forecasting contest. "It’s certainly a weird feeling to be outdone by several bots at this point." But humans still lead on many complex, judgment‑heavy questions and the best approach may combine human and AI forecasts. - the Guardian

California’s "No Robo Bosses Act" prohibits employers from relying solely on an automated decision system to discipline, terminate, or deactivate a worker, requires disclosures; passed legislature and headed for Gavin Newsom's desk. - Forbes

Agenda Hero automates creating calendar events by extracting dates/times/details from pasted text, images or PDFs and can add them to Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple or other platforms in one click and produce a shareable events page; core features are free and don’t require an account. - Fast Company

"Shopify is using a sicko AI version of me to sell its new website themes" - Business Insider

Meta’s Connect demo was supposed to be ”legendary.” Instead, a cooking glitch and a missed call turned $799 glasses into meme material - Quartz

The Useful Idiots of AI Doomsaying - The Atlantic

The soccer robots are not T-800 or Messi level yet - YouTube

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