AI Reading for Tuesday August 5

OpenAI’s ChatGPT to hit 700 million weekly users, up 4x from last year - CNBC

Curb your enthusiasm: OpenAI's latest GPT-5 is said to be smarter than GPT-4, but not by much. - Mashable

Why ‘Universal Verifiers’ Are OpenAI’s Secret Weapon - The Information

What would ChatGPT agents with a checkout system mean for retail? ‘It fundamentally changes what it means to be an e-commerce brand’ - Digiday

OpenAI says it is tuning how ChatGPT responds to mental health-related conversations, will now remind you to take breaks - Engadget

Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to "Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant" - Futurism

Google mocks Apple's delayed AI features in new 'coming soon' ad - Business Insider

Google Mocks Itsel: If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself - Futurism

Google’s new AI model creates 3D video game worlds in real time to help train robots - The Verge

Google's healthcare AI hallucinated the basilar ganglia, a body part that does not exist - The Verge

Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ - the Guardian

Ex-Google exec’s shocking warning: AI will create 15 years of ‘hell’ — starting sooner than we think - New York Post

Shut up and grind: the pressure has risen in Silicon Valley at the dawn of the AI area - The New York Times

20% time is old news

Tesla's brand loyalty collapsed after Musk backed Trump, data shows - reut.rs

Trial transcripts: Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash - Electrek

Tesla board admitting the only thing propping up Tesla’s stock is Musk, lets him extort $29b - NY Times

Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content - TechCrunch

Want to work at Meta? Post that you just receved an offer from OpenAI - Business Insider

Meta orders 6000 next-gen ASIC-powered AI servers, partners with Broadcom and Quanta Computer - www.datacenterdynamics.com

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his employees are refusing Zuckerberg’s $100 million payout—and he's not even matching salaries to keep them - Fortune

European utilities like Engie, RWE, and Enel are repurposing ageing coal and gas power plants into data centres to meet rising AI-driven energy demand, offering tech firms ready access to the power grid and water. - Reuters

Google agrees to pause AI workloads in Midwest when power demand spikes - The Register

Hyundai to help build nuclear-powered datacenter in Texas - The Register

GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. - Business Insider

Stack Overflow's developer survey says devs don't trust AI tools - survey.stackoverflow.co

AI-generated code can

A new universal deepfake detector achieved record accuracy in spotting synthetic videos. - New Scientist look 'truthy', with hard-to-detect subtle errors in logic. - Hacker Noon

Cloudflare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers with Chrome user-agent impersonation to evade website no-crawl directives - The Cloudflare Blog

An ambitious new project aims to win back the U.S. lead in open-source AI from China - The Washington Post

SEC Forms Task Force Promoting ‘Responsible AI Integration’ - PYMNTS.com

No inflated claims and calling everything AI?

Who gets cheap flights and hotel upgrades and who gets dinged with surcharges? AI will decide. - The Washington Post

Illinois banned AI therapy - Mashable

In recruitment, a spy-vs-spy AI-on-AI war is rewriting the hiring playbook - The Next Web

Robot Swarms could spell the end of the assembly line - The Robot Report

AI has uncovered alternative new materials that could make lithium-ion batteries obsolete and revolutionize energy storage. - SciTech Daily

How McKinsey Rebuilt Its Business Around AI—And Why It’s Working - Hacker Noon

We need to relearn how to use AI when it’s wearable - The Verge

New note-taking software catches every word from your meetings—including the parts you didn’t want the whole room to hear. - The Wall Street Journal

Seek by iNaturalist Uses AI to Turn Anyone Into a Wildlife Expert. - CNET

Are you ready for the “cybernetic corporation” with an AI CEO? - Big Think

Peek inside the Rationalist church of AI: - The New York Times

Airbnb guest says host used AI-generated images in false $9,000 damages claim. That thing where the delivery drivers take pictures, needs to be on hardware with biometric login that preserves the chain of evidenceLOL - TechSpot

Rod Stewart Shows AI Images of Ozzy Osbourne In Heaven Taking Selfies With Dead Music Icons During Concert Tribute - Variety

What is SolidGoldMagikarp? A 'glitch token' that confuses AI and causes it to babble nonsense, utter oblique, ominous phrases and sentiments, or display weird aggressive behavior towards the user. - Gizmodo

'OK clanker' is what you tell your AI when it misbehaves - NBC News

Interview with AI-resurrected shooting victim sparks controversy - Decrypt

Why Your GPS Fails Indoors and How AIEZ Kalman Filtering / Dead Reckoning Fixes It - Hacker Noon

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