AI Reading for Wednesday September 10

OpenAI CFO says cloud giants have been 'learning on our dime,' in warning shot over data center ambitions - Business Insider

OpenAI's Sarah Friar said AI coding tools make it feasible to replace off-the-shelf planning and procurement software with bespoke internal solutions and pointed to OpenAI's finance team using coding agents, making it roughly 18% the size of comparable companies' finance teams. - Business Insider

Apple: AI, what is that? - The Verge

not much talk about AI at Apple event. although real-time translation AirPods sound pretty cool.

Natives are restless over Claude Code changes, some people pushing OpenAI Codex CLI - AI Engineering Report

Wisdom from Andrej Karpathy a couple of weeks back , the voice of a generation of coders LOL - X (formerly Twitter)

Microsoft reportedly plans to start using Anthropic models to power some of Office 365's Copilot features, seems like a significant breakdown in OpenAI relationship. - Engadget

Microsoft mandates 3 days in office company-wide and 4 days for AI org - Business Insider

also turtlenecks and blazers

Google Cloud leans into AI to gain market share … I think they are onto something, with Gemini and Anthropic models and a seemingly integrated gen AI ecosystem a couple of steps ahead of Azure and AWS - Investor's Business Daily

Nano Banana spikes Google AI Studio usage - Business Insider

AI helps write scientific empirical software that performs computational experiments and models real-world systems - Google Research

Colleges and students adapt to AI. “There’s a broader sense of foreboding in the air about the value of education in an age of artificial intelligence,” Harvard’s dean David Deming said, and students’ respond, “It’s better to understand how to use AI than not at all.” - The Christian Science Monitor

80% of Harvard professors know or suspect they’ve received AI-generated work; a 2024 undergraduate survey found about 25% of students who use generative AI rely on it as a substitute for office hours and required readings, which the author says is driving student disengagement. - The Crimson

Employers are increasingly using AI to find talent and even conduct interviews, while applicants use AI to draft cover letters and prep. And everybody hates it. AI interviews considered "intensely dehumanizing" - BostonGlobe.com

AI safety prof says, we're all cooked in the labor market. But we will have a lot of free time. - Fortune

They really are just like us: Evaluators observed problematic agent behavior—procrastination, deception, and created "fake 'shortcuts' that omit the hard part of a task" - TwistedSifter

AI can't clean Airbnb toilets - Business Insider

Yet. But you can after you lose your job

Using AI to negotiate the price of a car down by thousands - Fortune

5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode Behind an AI Start Ups Plan - The Hollywood Reporter

Remember When Things Were Better in the ’90s? A.I. Does Too. - The New York Times

Why is AI struggling to discover new drugs? - Financial Times

An AI with access to all your medical data and all the world's medical knowledge, or vibe-doctoring? - GeekWire

Can China’s AI-powered surgical robots cut wait times for operations? - South China Morning Post

Claude Desktop can now create and use files locally - Anthropic

OpenAI adds remote MCP servers for Pro and Plus users . (Claude Desktop gives you remote and local, makes it easy to write or download MCP servers and run locally) - X (formerly Twitter)

"Part of me is always unnerved when I see people running claude --dangerously-skip-permissions or codex --yolo to give them unfettered ability to run commands on their machine." - Sophie Bits

A 90-day roadmap for taking control of agents: inventory all AI, map data flows, mandate human-in-the-loop approvals, sandbox and red-team agents, enforce least-privilege permissions and kill-switches, then scale securely - Hacker Noon

Reflection, whose Asimov 'code research agent' is in preview, said to be raising at $5.5bn valuation - Financial Times

Gartner VP analyst Jo Liversidge warned AI licensing and pricing are in a state of "pandemonium", with frequent changes to pricing and TOS. - The Register

Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World - WIRED

How US tech companies like IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and others helped design and build China's digital surveillance state - AP News

Sen. Josh Hawley wants to ban driverless cars — and says he'll introduce a bill on it 'soon' - Business Insider

AI policy, fortunately all the biggest brains are on it

Bit of a hit piece on some of RAND's work on AI. They have been doing a lot of AI policy work, I'm not sure it is particularly partisan or influential, tend to view it as wonky, technocratic and big tech military-industrial complex affiliated. - Fox News

but then I guess I’m a radical leftist

These red state farmers really be like, yay for tariffs and then, please, my small business is failing, may I have a bailout? - KATV

mmm kay, best I can offer is occupy some Dem-run cities, take away health care and bring back polio and coat-hanger abortions

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