AI Reading for Sunday December 14

Political battle over AI and Trump’s order is just beginning. - Wall Street Journal

President Trump provoked legal challenge concerns with an executive order seeking to exercise control over state laws, directing a single federal AI framework and the Attorney General to form an "AI Litigation Task Force" to challenge state AI laws, with non-AI funding conditioned on obedience. - Techdirt

Donald Trump recently signed the executive order 'Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,' authorizing the U.S. attorney general to sue states and preempt state AI consumer‑protection laws such as testing/disclosure and mental‑health/data requirements. - Futurism

On Dec. 14, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order limiting states' power to regulate artificial intelligence, prompting splits among his supporters and highlighting Silicon Valley advisers' growing influence over his agenda. - The Washington Post

these guys hump the constitution but never heard of “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

President Trump sanctioned nine ICC staffers, including six judges and chief prosecutor Karim Khan, barring U.S. entry and prompting banks, tech firms and service providers to close accounts, freeze payments and disrupt ICC operations. - ABC News

it's disgraceful to treat The Hague jurists like terrorists, and also counterproductive since it forces Europe to create its own sovereign tech stack. fear them much?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang persuaded Donald Trump to approve a decision allowing U.S. exports of AI chips to China. - Financial Times

Chinese firms and government responses since ChatGPT's Nov. 30, 2022 launch have produced models like DeepSeek V3 (Dec 2024), Kimi K2 (July 2025) and Qwen, narrowing the China–U.S. AI gap to about three months, analysts say. - Yahoo

Capex Machina: Oracle shares plunged about 45% from their September high and fell 14% this week after it reported $12 billion quarterly capex (vs. $8.25B expected) and raised fiscal‑2026 capex by $15B for OpenAI data centers, widening its bond yields. - Yahoo

How we used Codex to build Sora for Android in 28 days - OpenAI

28 days later, the horror movie where the hype virus decimated all human creativity and culture collapsed

OpenAI to vest new employees’ equity immediately - Bloomberg

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said Microsoft will not match Meta's outsized pay packages, noting Meta has offered $100 million signing bonuses and even $250 million packages. - Business Insider

“We might be rich and stupid, but not Zuck-level rich and stupid”

Wall Street investors say an AI bubble is forming and are betting on specific factors and assets they expect would cause it to burst. - Bloomberg

At the FT Money annual roundtable, experts debated whether an AI bubble exists and assessed investment risks and considerations for 2026. - Financial Times

At NeurIPS in San Diego, Max Tegmark presented a new AI-safety index in which no company scored above C+ and warned that artificial general intelligence could precipitate the end of human life. - The Atlantic

p-doom and p-annoying discourse on the rise

Google launched Gemini-powered live speech translation in the Google Translate app, turning synced headphones into real-time translation earbuds in a beta on Android in the US, Mexico and India supporting 70+ languages, with Gemini text translations for ~20 languages. - TechSpot

if only they could make discourse less annoying at scale

Some AI leaders are pursuing continual learning, an approach that mimics human learning over time, to build more powerful AI systems. - Bloomberg

Researchers used a deep-learning model to create an adrenal vibe check from routine CT scans that correlates with cortisol, allostatic load, perceived stress and predicts long-term cardiovascular outcomes, including heart failure risk. - ScienceDaily

A linguistics paper evaluated multiple LLMs, including OpenAI's o1, on four tasks using 30 crafted sentences and 30 artificial mini-languages and found o1 produced graduate-student-level metalinguistic analyses. - WIRED

a great disturbance in the force, as if 1000 PhD dissertations were annihilated

In 2026, smartphone RAM is rolling back: entry models are returning to 4GB, midrange to 6–8GB and flagships drop from 16GB to 12GB as tighter memory supply and Android 15 and iOS optimizations reduce background load. - M9 News

all this information and nowhere to store it

NHTSA opened an investigation and Waymo recalled software for 3,067 vehicles after the agency warned the software 'may cause' vehicles to pass school buses, citing numerous Austin and Atlanta incidents and one involving disembarking students; schools say patches haven't fixed the problem. - Futurism

Flock Safety is expanding a AI-powered cop cams across U.S. municipalities, prompting neighborhood nopes — including Longmont's 5–1 vote to reject expansion after a hearing — amid reports of false positives, misuse, and municipal reversals. - Futurism

ICE agents in Chicago stopped and handcuffed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Jesus Gutiérrez, photographed his face and used facial-recognition to verify his identity before releasing him. - 404 Media

who even needs ‘papers please’ if you got pixels and AI

An August 2025 study by UCL, Mediterranea and UC Davis found AI browsers and extensions (e.g., Merlin, Sider, TinaMind) automatically scraped and stored sensitive browsing data—images, medical records, banking details, SSNs—while Perplexity collected page titles and location. - BGR

AI snooping as a service

The rapid expansion of AI is raising prices for labor and commodities, threatening to divert funding, skilled labor, and other resources away from road and bridge construction and maintenance. - Bloomberg

AI to predict maintenance is cheap but the actual repairs are expensive

AI is creating new occupations and increasing demand for human-centric skills, prompting employers to hire human-in-the-loop roles such as AI safety engineers, operators, compliance and content moderators and driving reskilling and training-provider market opportunities. - The Economist

Brian Merchant's 'AI Killed My Job' series compiles accounts from 12 professional copywriters who say AI-produced drafts have reduced pay and shifted their roles from original writing to editing/quality control, causing job displacement and wage pressure. - Blood in the Machine

AI music generators such as Suno, Boomy and Google's instrument playground now produce near-instant, multi-genre tracks with fine-grained controls and convincing vocals, and are beginning to displace low-cost songwriting and production gigs while improving routine output quality. - MUO

Music industry celebrates musicians going extinct

Come all ye foundation models…hark! the herald AI sings! Churches are increasingly using AI for Christmas services and outreach to enhance presentations and engagement, a seasonal rise that could expand demand for AI content tools and prompt greater regulatory scrutiny of data and privacy practices. - Axios

A TikTok 'AI Homeless Man Prank'—including a Nnamdi Anunobi video with over two million views—led to two Ohio teenagers being charged and prompted multiple police departments to warn of wasted emergency resources, spurring calls for educating users about AI capabilities and responsibility. - The Conversation

making punk’d but more mean, with deepfakes

AI images are getting better by becoming more like smartphone pictures and adding more realistic real-world flaws - The Verge

Kimmel roasts Time's AI 'person of the year' - YouTube

Is it customary for an ‘architect’ to have no idea how their creation works or whether it will rise up to kill them

The purpose of enterprise AI is to show investors we are doing AI. Been going viral, I dunno, cynical much? - Reddit

if you are an IT leader, if you chase every shiny thing you are not good at your job. and also if you can’t put a technology that can understand and generate human language to good use you are not good at your job. If you are rolling out Copilot or ChatGPT enterprise ofc you need to train people, start trying to re-engineer some pain points.

Tracking a Russian spy's cat - tiktok.com

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