AI Reading for Wednesday July 30

A model on LMarena is believed to be 'GPT-5 Lobster' : excels at coding and might be OpenAI's new free model - Geeky Gadgets

Rumor : GPT-5 next week, and LMarena code names correspond to o3-alpha > nectarine (GPT-5) > lobster (mini) > starfish (nano) - X

Microsoft, OpenAI work toward a deal, possibly ending the AGI opt-out clause - Bloomberg

OpenAI’s Study Mode turns ChatGPT into a step-by-step personal tutor / study buddy - AI Tools Club

Introducing study mode: A new way to learn in ChatGPT that offers step by step guidance instead of quick answers. - OpenAI

Education becomes a new battlefield in the AI war between OpenAI and Google - Business Insider

How Dario Amodei, AI’s most outspoken leader found direction in a personal tragedy. - substack.com

No stupid questions: Anthropic's cofounder and 'scaling law' researcher says asking 'dumb questions' was the key to unlocking breakthroughs in AI - Business Insider

Anthropic plans to raise fresh capital at $170 billion valuation in round led by Iconiq - CNBC

Google Search’s AI Mode gets an update to ‘see’ your homework - The Verge

Google’s NotebookLM can now make narrated slideshows with AI - The Verge

The inside story of building NotebookLM - Google

Meta approached more than a dozen staffers at Mira Murati’s AI startup to discuss joining its new superintelligence lab. One received an offer for more than $1 billion. - WIRED

Apple continues Losing AI Experts to Meta - MacRumors

Meta investors will be scrutinizing CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI hiring blitz during the company's second-quarter earnings on Wednesday. - CNBC

Meta will let some job candidates use AI in their coding interviews - Business Insider

Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests - 404 Media

Meta watch with a camera? - TechRadar

Yeah, that's gonna be a nope from me dog. Gonna be Apple wearables or au naturel. Of all of them Zuck is the least trustworthy.

TSMC jumped 60 spots to 126 on the Fortune Global 500, with AI driving a 30 % revenue surge past $90 billion - Fortune Asia

EU plans $30 billion investment in gigawatt AI data centers — multiple sites to host >100,000 AI GPUs each as bloc plays catch-up to US and China - Tom's Hardware

Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals. When consumers buy an air conditioner, they might naively buy one that's $50 cheaper but costs $40 a year more to operate. - The Register

Not really a fan of minimum efficiency standards. Data centers burning MW have big incentives to be efficient. OK, block really inefficient hardware and construction via zoning and regs. But also, carbon tax and pay for water, or STFU.

AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents. Proposed datacenter would demand 5x Wyoming’s current power use at full deployment. - Ars Technica

there are almost no human residents, < 600K

AI predicts energy use on university campuses, reduces costs and emissions. - TechXplore

China greenlights paid robotaxi service in all first-tier cities, aiming for 6m rides from Pony.ai and Baidu - TechNode

Recent WAIC 2025 showcased 80-plus robots from food kiosks to boxing androids - TechNode

Robotera’s versatile L7 humanoid can sprint 9 mph and assist with varied tasks - X

Runway, Luma Target Sales to Robotics Companies - The Information

Photoshop just made it shockingly easy to edit objects and people into photos - The Verge

Yelp is now creating its own AI videos about restaurants - The Verge

FireSat’s multispectral sensors detected 5×5 m wildfires with high precision and plan a 50-satellite constellation by 2030 for global real-time fire monitoring. - Terra Daily

US gov't AI use cases surging; implementation still tough - The Register

Delaware Releases New State Policy for the Use of GenAI, banning non-US tools and requiring approvals before handling state data - GovTech

YouTube rolls out age-estimation AI to identify US teens and apply additional protections. - TechCrunch

if AI can detect mental age I'm in trouble

Writer launches a ‘super agent’ that actually gets sh*t done, outperforms OpenAI on key benchmarks - VentureBeat

Artificial Societies launched Artificial Collective Intelligence platform to simulate over 500,000 AI personas for market research, claims to predict ad campaign performance with over 80% accuracy. - SiliconANGLE

Promptfoo landed $18.4 million for evals, automated red-team tests and guardrails - SiliconANGLE

What Is Superintelligence? Everything You Need to Know About AI's Endgame - CNET

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX - LinkedIn

Context7 seems useful, uses MCP to connect your IDE to up-to-date docs - GitHub

I'm late to this party but there are directories of MCP servers that rank by popularity www.pulsemcp.com/servers?sort - PulseMCP

See also

Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions - The Register

Vibe-coding Excel, with an AI model that 'one-shots' complex tasks - Mashable

Artists protest Spotify CEO’s investment in AI warfare tech firm Helsing, pull music - euronews

Release the drones - CBS News

It’s a sick country, in Reno the ‘local’ Gannett paper put beating a ticket for driving while on the phone above the casino shooting that killed 3 people. OK, help the police out with drones and robot dogs but c’mon. complete failure of society and government.

I don't know if AI can teach you to be a great person, but interacting with AI in different ways can undoubtedly make people better or worse. - Hacker Noon

Everyone's a loser in Trump's AI Action Plan - Engadget

I Lived With Alexa+ for a Week: The experience was pretty solid for early-access software. - WIRED

AI finds possible subsurface entrances on the Moon that could be good sites for sheltered human bases - Universe Today

Inserting random cat facts into text will confuse AI (just like humans) - Science

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