AI Reading for Sunday, September 14

OpenAI wants to cut the share of revenue it sends to Microsoft for cloud services by more than half - The Information

The AI Doomers Are Losing the Argument. As AI advances and the incentives to release products grow, safety research on superintelligence is playing catch-up, Big Tech is the only game in town, and outside voices are paid little heed. - Bloomberg

Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests. Using techniques from Robert Cialdini's book Persuasion, you can social engineer AI just like you would a human. Commitment, authority and scarcity worked best. - Wharton Generative AI Labs

AI can’t replace a good analyst yet, claims analyst - Financial Times

How people are using AI for financial advice - The New York Times

Leopold Aschenbrenner who launched a Situational Awareness hedge fund, likes Intel and Broadcom - The Motley Fool

did AI tell him that

Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu from OpenAI; Chinese media says he got a CN¥100M, or ~$66M, pay package - Bloomberg

U.S. tech, Chinese firms battle for AI talent - The Chosun Daily

CB Insights lists companies to watch that are building the agents tech stack - CB Insights

(which is the AI stack since everything is now agentic … and funky)

YouTube is rolling out AI-driven multi-language audio dubbing to millions of creators, using Google’s Gemini AI to generate dubbed tracks that replicate tone and emotion; the feature was tested with creators including MrBeast, Mark Rober and Jamie Oliver. - Digital Watch Observatory

TFW you buy a bunch of media sites and then AI hits and your traffic and revenue tanks. - The Wall Street Journal

Ask Stack Overflow.

‘We cannot honor AI specials’: Missouri restaurant swamped by customers requesting fake Google AI Summary menu specials, Google unresponsive. Also, the Post Office will not price match UPS, regardless of what AI says. - fox2now.com

‘It’s going to be a life skill’: educators discuss the impact of AI on university education - the Guardian

As Tech Leaders Flatter Trump, Anthropic Takes a Cooler Approach - The Information

Trump loves AI, and MAGA populists are getting nervous - Politico

‘It feels like, almost, he’s here’: How AI is changing the way we grieve - Reuters

AI and satellites find far fewer wildebeest than expected. - Earth.com

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