AI Reading for Tuesday August 26

Musk sues Apple, OpenAI, says they conspire to lock out xAI and X - CNBC

Elon Musk's xAI secretly dropped its benefit corporation status - CNBC

Tesla rejected $60 million settlement before losing $243 million Autopilot verdict - Reuters

Musk says lidar is unsafe, more information confuses computers, which violates laws of information theory - TESLARATI

if you add a feature to a model like regression, if it's just noise it slows down training and inference and adds no value. but if it has any information it never makes your model less predictive, unless you do it wrong.

Musk says we got the sustainable abundance going for us, which is nice - X (formerly Twitter)

OpenAI pushes into health care after featuring it at GPT-5 rollout - Business Insider

Not sure what Intel actually gets in return for this 'deal', if it can change, it it is just extortion, if foreign customers want to buy chips from Trump, if it signals Intel is not gonna make it - The New York Times

I tend to disagree with this take on Intel. - Stratechery by Ben Thompson

If a competent US administration were systematically supporting US chipmakers as a matter of policy, that would be a different thing. if you need a fascist clown to strong-arm people to buy chips from Intel it is probably too late. Completely destruction of democratic norms and rule of law, loss of US’s status as a stable safe haven, trumps pressuring someone to make chips in the Intel foundry.

Cambricon: how 2 ‘genius brothers’ created China’s potential rival to Nvidia - South China Morning Post

Meta raids Google DeepMind and Scale AI for its all-star superintelligence team - Business Insider

CBP accessed searches across 80,000+ Flock AI cameras, prompting local pushback and a pause of federal pilots. - 404 Media - 404 Media

New research from Stanford provides the clearest available evidence that AI is reshaping the workforce—but it’s complicated. - WIRED

Macroeconomic Implications of Artificial Intelligence - RAND Corporation

Artificial Intelligence and the Social Contract - RAND Corporation

Executives increasingly consult AI in the C-suite, underscoring needs for guardrails, literacy, and strong data infrastructure. - TechRadar

How AI and the age of hyper-personalization is reshaping business strategies - TechRadar

Chanos warns about the AI boom's potential to destroy old business models, and fuel an accounting-driven spending boom. - Business Insider

Analyses say AI agents will compress military decision cycles and shrink the command post - Honolulu Civil Beat

Agentic AI is taking decisions and acting on behalf of users, but how to stop that going wrong? - BBC

Agentic AI has companies excited and security experts freaked out. - Fast Company

Using an agentic browser vulnerable to prompt injection to access your bank account could be risky - Malwarebytes

AI tools make social engineering attacks even more convincing - TechRadar

What does it really mean that AI is threatening to 'blackmail' people? - MIT Technology Review

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times. ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’. - the Guardian

If anthropomorphizing AI makes people think they are sentient, would training them to be more 'robotic' change that, and reduce potential harm from parasocial designs? - The Conversation

"Can you copyright artwork made using AI?" — A legal test case over a Vincent Van Gogh mashup is testing whether copyright protection, which traditionally rewards and protects human-created works, extends to artwork made with or by artificial intelligence. - NPR

AI makes it all up: Eminem performed at Jeff Bezos’ mom’s star-studded funeral - New York Post

AI that makes a list, and checks it twice - 9to5Mac

Plans and checklists help AIs just like they help humans.

Will Smith accused of creating an AI crowd for tour video, as footage shows melted faces. - Rolling Stone

But YouTube AI might be the reason tho - Waxy.org

Most AI design has a bland sameness, but that also sounds like a lot of contemporary graphic design. AI is a chance to break free. - Fast Company

80s nostalgia AI slop: A niche like any other, reverse engineered by 20-something digital nomads in Bali to boomerfy the masses as they astral project to a fake past in service of making fractions of a cent per view on Zuckerberg's cultish algorithmic slop machine - 404 Media

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