AI Reading for Saturday September 6

OpenAI projects $115b cumulative cash burn through 2029 - The Information

Also a lot of revenue but still…

AGs write to OpenAI, implicitly threatening the planned restructuring unless safety risks are addressed. - The Register

OpenAI reshuffles model behavior team, leader departs. - TechCrunch

OpenAI says benchmarks favor confident guessing, helping lead to hallucinations - OpenAI

OpenAI lets you branch conversations and then backtrack - BGR

(I think they’ve had that for a while, but I think others, once you edit a previous prompt, you can’t toggle between versions)

Tesla: 'Full Self-Driving', now doesn't mean autonomy, actually, always needs supervision. But I thought an over-the-air update was going to turn older models into robotaxis? Nah - Electrek

FSD meant ‘F*** self driving’ actually

Musk previously favored cars with radars/lidar sensors in addition to vision - Electrek

Tesla shareholders to vote on potential $1T Musk pay package, on investing in xAI, to fund data centers, chips, and the Grok chatbot. - Yahoo Finance

Pig in a poke, the Musk cult-members have some form of Neuralink brain implant

How to opt out of AIs training on your chats, use the settings or the DuckDuckGo gateway - The Washington Post

Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Author Copyright Claims - Bloomberg

After Anthropic settlements, lawyers come after Apple - 9to5Mac

Qwen3-Max arrives in preview with 1 trillion parameters, blazing fast response speed, and API availability - VentureBeat

AI can detects vulnerable arterial locations as well as specialized labs (the international "gold standard"), and predicts further heart attacks or death within two years more accurately. - Talker

If you use AI as a virtual therapist, here are 5 things experts recommend - The Washington Post

The doctors are real, the snake-oil pitches are deepfakes - The New York Times

An AI avatar interview left a reporter uneasy, highlighting concerns over canned responses, bias, and transparency in automated hiring tools. - The Register

Every AI skill boosts pay, and they add up - ZDNET

AI code speeds commits but can overwhelm security reviews - IT Brew

AI embedding sizes keep rising. - ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰

Memory bandwidth to keep those GPUs humming is a critical bottleneck - Fierce Network

How secretive hedge fund Magnetar went all in on AI - Financial Times

This free Chrome tool cleans up your Google searches - hide AI, sponsored links, and more…surely about to be banned - ZDNET

Zuckerberg: I wasn't sure what number you wanted me to make up - Engadget

The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All - WIRED

Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT, “She got ChatGPT to tell me what a rat I was.” - Futurism

win for doomerism, either way

A deck on AI agents from a presentation to AITEC hedge fund IT execs - gamma.app

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