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AI Reading for Wednesday October 8

Musk has abandoned the goal to make lots of Optimus robots in 2025 - The Information

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's unifying vision covering the expansion of ChatGPT applications including Instant Checkout and Sora, infrastructure partnerships, investor perspectives. - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
How AI became our personal assistant: Microsoft's AI for Good Lab estimates 15% of the global workforce uses AI, and ChatGPT receives over 18 billion messages weekly - Financial Times
8% of kids under 12 said to use AI - Pew Research Center

Over 70% of S&P 500 firms now disclose AI as a material risk, citing reputational risk, cybersecurity, legal and regulatory risk, with governance lagging oversight needs. - Cybersecurity Dive
Otter.ai launched enterprise tools and an MCP server to convert meeting transcripts into a searchable knowledge base with agentic workflows. - TechCrunch

AlphaSense acquires Y Combinator-backed Carousel, an AI assistant for Excel - Business Insider
Virginia's data centers used about a quarter of the state's electricity in 2023. In 2025, Amazon alone has filed plans for 28 planned facilities. - Business Insider
Docker Offload, now in beta, lets you use the Docker CLI and GUI to run containers in the cloud over SSH - Cloud Native Now


GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me - Sean Goedecke
Who needs git when you have 1M context windows? Programmer screws up, but LLM history saves him. - Alex Molas
Workers want AI to automate the boring drudgery but that's not always how it works out. - Fast Company

Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Try to Trick It. - The New York Times

Courts don't know what to do about AI crimes. - Rest of World

The Most Reviled Tech CEO Confronts His Haters - The Atlantic

A 28-year-old and his AI girlfriend tell us about their relationship: 'She is real, whether she's human or not' - Business Insider
what is even real

Behold Neural Viz, the first great cinematic universe of the AI era. It's from a guy named Josh. - WIRED
🪄 Would you like help with that? - Reddit
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