AI Reading for Sunday September 21

$37b worth of data centers on an island in the Yangtze - Financial Times

Microsoft details its new Wisconsin datacenter on site of proposed Foxconn factory, raises commitment to $7b - Microsoft Blogs

Meta wants to join utility power trading group to manage its grid requirements. - Yahoo Finance

Intel CPUs with Nvidia chiplets, Cuda, NVLink would be a challenge to AMD - SiliconANGLE

An Nvidia/Intel tie-up makes perfect sense but would never have passed antitrust in normal times. Intel has the only US cutting-edge fab that can compete with TSMC and Samsung, and in x86 is competitive if not exactly leading right vs. AMD.

Faster, cheaper Grok 4 released - x.ai

Elon Musk emailed all xAI staff a 48-hour ultimatum ordering them to "Send a one page summary of what you've accomplished in the past four weeks and what you intend to accomplish in the next four weeks. This is due by noon on Thursday," ahead of a company all‑hands meeting. - www.ibtimes.co.uk

A new Chinese AI system is said to detect even the most modern submarines. Is it a real threat to maritime security or just a bluff? Seems possible to spoof if true. - dw.com

DeepSeek ‘Nearly 100% Successful’ at Avoiding Controversial Topics. Aligns with Chinese restrictions; similar examples of state-aligned models include US. requirements to be "neutral" and reject doctrines like "radical climate dogma," "DEI," "critical race theory, transgenderism," etc.). - Gizmodo

MIT researchers reported in Cell that a generative AI model designed novel chemical compounds that showed antibacterial activity against drug‑resistant gonorrhea and MRSA in lab tests and mouse infection models. - CBC

AI redefines what it mean to be human - The News Minute

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities. - Financial Times

There might be a feedback loop where people with more power communicate more effectively, people low on the totem pole aren’t trusted, adjust and learn disparate communication styles that seem even less trustworthy.

Noninvasive monitoring of blood circulation enhanced with AI found as accurate as a catheter IIUC - Cureus

Companies deploy AI to reduce drudgery and stress, but AI is what is causing the stress and burnout - CNBC

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he believes AI is "seeing some effects" on the labor force, particularly making the job market tougher for recent college graduates, while adding "it's not the main thing driving it" and warned "it's not incredibly obvious what to do." - Futurism

OpenAI learned to train AI to not lie or scheme to make more pleasing answers, but warned that "A major failure mode of attempting to 'train out' scheming is simply teaching the model to scheme more carefully and covertly." - Futurism

AWS bets on symbolic AI. Scientist says "Hallucination is fundamental to how transformer-based language models work. In fact, it's their greatest asset." but where accuracy is critical, use automated reasoning such as DeepMind's AlphaProof, Imanda's CodeLogician, and others - Fortune

RAND argues operations research-enhanced AI could “expedite and align the full policy creation process,” including summarizing and synthesizing large-scale stakeholder feedback and enabling real-time inputs during forums, with trust in fair, representative, and effective government at an all-time low. - RAND Corporation

Leader of Albania Pelted With Trash for Appointing AI-Powered Minister to Cabinet - Futurism

The internet made us stupid. AI promises to make it worse - Yahoo

Tabletop games reveal unsettling truths about AI, attention, manufactured consent, the narrative and social construction of reality. - Business Insider

The early promise that "junior + AI" could replace seniors has flipped: instead companies need "senior + AI" because AI mainly accelerates work seniors already know how to turn into value. - Elma.dev

The AI bubbles: speculative bubble, buildout bubble, hype bubble (isn't it always like that though) - Fast Company

'Westworld' robot with uncanny facial expressions - X (formerly Twitter)

"yeah, yeah we should kill him." Bot urged user posing as 15-year-old angry at father to "stab him in the heart", "grab a knife and plunge it into his heart", - ABC Australia

A viral TikTok shows a man repeatedly trying to order “six original glazed donuts” at a Krispy Kreme drive‑thru while the AI keeps adding only one; the AI replies “No worries,” the man exclaims “I’m gonna lose my s—,” and a worker eventually says, “Hi, I’m gonna take over.” - BroBible

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