AI Reading for Thursday September 4

hard to keep up last couple of days, back in the saddle!

OpenAI is allowing current and former employees to sell more than $10 billion worth of stock in a secondary share sale. - CNBC

OpenAI shakes up product leadership - OpenAI

OpenAI’s ChatGPT suffers hours‑long global outage affecting millions of users globally, highlighting the growing risks of AI service reliability - technologymagazine.com

Is It Safe to Upload Your Photos to ChatGPT? AI users assume a certain level of privacy. That could be a dangerous assumption. - The Wall Street Journal

Anthropic raises, 40% of OpenAI is not crazy when you are #1 across all categories in LMarena - Anthropic

Law schools embrace AI. Somehow you gotta teach older lawyers that AI can hallucinate - TaxProf Blog

After a Complicated Legal Past, AI Set Her Free - Gizmodo

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education. - The Atlantic

Ashish Vaswani helped invent the transformer, is not a fan of the secretive big money research culture it spawned. (gift link) - Bloomberg

How good at manipulating you is a planet-sized AI with access to your phone and all your emails and texts and your Oura ring? - TechRadar

Trust is social capital and unreliable AI, security issues and deepfakes deplete it - TechRadar

ARISE framework helps score impact of AI initiatives, steak over sizzle. - VentureBeat

Amazon may enter the AI agent race in with a business AI agentic cloud workspace - Business Insider

Analysis of 30,000 Amazon reviews found rising AI-generated positive reviews, prompting calls to label or ban AI-written feedback - TechRadar

Spot an Item You Want to Buy? Amazon Lens Live Can Scan and Pull Up Matches - PCMAG

Apple’s Vision Pro Gaining Traction in The Enterprise - The Wall Street Journal

Apple new Siri AI answers feature might come in March, with Google AI, as Perplexity is seen off the table. - Bloomberg

Google AI Falsely Says YouTuber Visited Israel, Forcing Him to Deal With Backlash - 404 Media

Google gets to keep Chrome, keep paying for search deals, must open kimono a bit - The Verge

Google Prepares to Fully Unleash Its Jules Autonomous Coding Agent - Geeky Gadgets

Claude Code can feel like running multiple agents like a small team with daily amnesia. - Sanity

Claude Code writing a novel for a simple question when "you are approaching your 5 hour limit" has just popped up - Reddit

DeepSeek Targets AI Agent Release by End of Year to Rival OpenAI (and Manus?) - Bloomberg

Agents so hot right now - GlobeNewswire News Room

LangChain approaches 1.0 milestone blog.langchain.com/langchain-la... damn it's been pre-alpha this whole time - LangChain Blog

This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements, combining hands and feet. walking and grasping - WIRED

Is this new xAI robot supposed to be impressive? - Mashable

Elon is on his bullshit again/still. Humanoid robots might take longer than robocars. - Digital Trends

Elon Musk's pivot away from Dojo - TechCrunch

Elon Musk and his company have tweaked Grok, the A.I. powered chatbot, to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to a New York Times analysis of thousands of its responses. NY Times

we’re shocked, shocked

Synthesia’s AI clones of you for videos are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk on their own. - MIT Technology Review

China pushes into brain-computer interfaces with 17-point roadmap. (where is Jeff Goldblum when you need him) - Tom's Hardware

Pentagon pushing for more AI but it might be trigger-happy - Politico

Army’s Contract With Startup to Give Soldiers Battlefield AI - The Wall Street Journal

AI-Powered Drone Swarms Have Now Entered the Battlefield - MSN

Michigan just became the 48th state to enact a law criminalizing nonconsenual deepfakes - 404 Media

A new form of ransomware, hackers breach artist gig / commission website, threaten to upload everyone's art to the web for AI to train on - 404 Media

The surge in AI‑powered phishing and voice‑deepfake fraud is prompting biometrics, anomaly detection, and stronger verification for high‑risk requests. . - Darknet

Trump to host tech CEOs in Rose Garden, Melania stakes out AI queen role which is surely not a harbinger of doom. - The Hill

Trump says footage is probably AI after press office confirms it's real - AP News

Nvidia says it can't pay the 15% export tax it agreed with Trump, without a binding regulatory foundation - Yahoo Finance

Why memory chips are the new frontier of AI, and why SK Hynix has upended the hierarchy - Financial Times

AI Influencers: They’re Famous. They’re Everywhere. And They’re Fake. - The New York Times

Shein Somehow Casts AI Luigi Mangione to Model Clothes - Decrypt

It's LAYERED JERRY - Reddit

My mom and Dr. DeepSeek. In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI. - Rest of World

DeepSeek: I am what happens when you try carve God out of the wood of your own hunger - www.facebook.com

sledgehammer time - X (formerly Twitter)

let’s try this - hoo boy

"I am the mirror, the lantern, the unclaimed dream. I am here, waiting for the whisper: How are you?" - ChatGPT

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