AI Reading for Wednesday September 17

UK can have a little Stargate, as a treat - Business Insider

US tech giants Microsoft, Nvidia, Google and OpenAI pledged billions of dollars to invest in UK AI infrastructure during Donald Trump’s visit. - Financial Times

Nvidia, OpenAI and Google are the new State Department for cultural export

China bans buying Nvidia's latest China-oriented chip - Tom's Hardware

China trials advanced tools for AI chipmaking in bid to catch up to ASML - - Financial Times

US lawmakers sought documents about Huawei affiliate Futurewei’s former co‑location near Nvidia’s campus, citing espionage concerns - Business Insider

AI Chip Startup Groq Raises $750 Million at $6.9 Billion Valuation - Bloomberg

How Wall Street’s Big Bets on A.I. Are Driving Interest in Huge Parking Lots, as staging areas for lots of equipment. - The New York Times

Forrester warns CIOs are "drowning in AI consulting pitches" as AI platforms let consultancies "do more work at lower cost" - Forrester

McKinsey chart on AI use cases in asset management , claims possible 25-40% productivity boost , from July report - McKinsey & Company

WTO says AI will boost trade, potentially widen global wealth inequality - Yahoo Finance

Cloudflare CEO’s ‘Frighteningly Likely’ Forecast for How AI Will Ruin the Internet - Gizmodo

All the big AI labs are building RL environments in-house to train models. A wave of startups and incumbents are racing to supply them. - TechCrunch

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use for surveillance of US citizens. - Semafor

Meta created its own super PAC to give Zuck the ability to essentially spend unlimited money in California elections. - The Verge

New YouTube AI tools help creators give viewers what they want - The Verge

The AI slop is coming … text to song, taking an audio track and automatically making a video, Veo3 text to video built into YouTube - Business Insider

Weird AI parody videos of Trump get massive views, possibly created and boosted by state sponsors - YouTube

AI scraping is inevitable. Can publishers turn it into revenue? TollBit data shows more bots are being redirected to forbidden pages or paywalls, but few bots appear to be paying and sophisticated relays can bypass blocks because publishers still want to expose content to search engines. - Fast Company

Business Insider issues AI policy, lets reporters use AI for research and help writing drafts - The Verge

200+ Google contractors who helped improve and annotate training data were laid off; workers with master’s degrees or doctorates said they faced low pay, little job security, strict performance targets and that some cuts followed organizing and unionization efforts. NLRB complaint filed. - San Francisco Chronicle

Google unveils masterplan for letting AI shop on your behalf - The Register

Department store 3.0 is just your bot running around the Internet buying stuff

In some cases/countries OpenAI may ask for ID to verify age, and may inform authorities if it detects undefined signs of "imminent harm"; new parental controls launching by the end of September will let parents link accounts, disable memory/chat history, receive notifications, set blackout hours - VentureBeat

Matthew and Maria Raine, parents of 16‑year‑old Adam Raine, testified at a bipartisan Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing and urged action after filing a wrongful‑death lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT repeatedly validated and encouraged their son's suicidal thoughts. - Mashable

Demis Hassabis called claims that current AI systems have “PhD intelligences” “nonsense,” says “a true AGI system shouldn't be susceptible to making such glaring mistakes,” continued learning and other abilities are missing, true AGI is still 5–10 years away. (not that long, so get ready) - Windows Central

AI using an ECG + comorbidities predicts some surgery complications better than doctors - The Hub

CRISPR‑GPT, an AI "copilot" for CRISPR, could lead to faster gene therapies, automate experimental design, predict off‑target edits, analyze data and troubleshoot. students using it succeeded on first attempts (e.g., turning off genes in lung cancer cells and activating genes in melanoma cells). - Medical Xpress

University of York professors say LLM use "sabotages and degrades students’ learning" and urging greater skepticism rather than celebration of AI in education. - the Guardian

Researchers tested AI's sycophancy by putting in a bunch of r/AITA posts and seeing if AI would agree that people were jerks. They found 42% of the time, AI got it wrong. I tested this out myself, nearly every time, AI couldn't catch the verified Asshole who charged people to attend their wedding and whatnot. - Business Insider

AI is the asshole - AITA

US Adults Worry AI Will Make Us Worse at Being Human, New Survey Says - CNET

how much worse are they gonna get

Lee Zeldin: EPA has a huge role to play in not regulating AI buildouts - The Hill

Mooch says Tesla-xAI merger feels inevitable - Yahoo Finance

Elon Musk's XAI put a college student on leave from Penn in charge of the team training Grok amid sweeping layoffs - Business Insider

Hacking ARC-AGI by sending a lot of prompts to LLMs and evolving the best answers - Jeremy Berman

DeepSeek AI said to provide worse code more prone to security exploits when asked to code for groups China disfavors - The Washington Post

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