AI Reading for Tuesday March 25
OpenAI updates, DeepSeek roils startups strategies and even nations' sovereign AI plans.
OpenAI updated Advanced Voice Mode, made it more personable and interrupt people less often. - TechCrunch
On Mac it says it added background items, I wonder what it's doing in there.
Some leadership moves at OpenAI, Lightcap to run day-to-day, Altman to focus on research. - OpenAI
Nothing about Brockman, been quiet since his sabbatical.
Jack Ma's Ant says it can train AI as efficiently as OpenAI without Nvidia - Bloomberg
Tencent slows GPU deployment, blames DeepSeek efficiency breakthrough - Data Center Dynamics
Alibaba's Joe Tsai warns of data center bubble (gift link) - Bloomberg
And nations, a lot of countries will be looking to fine-tune open models for their own sovereign AI with local cultural and economic sensitivities and guardrails.
The world is looking to ditch US AI models - MIT Technology Review
As US pushes against regs, EU lawmakers warn against ‘dangerous’ moves to water down AI rules. - FT
US can implement tariffs and trade barriers on chips etc. to protect domestic players, but others can play that game, and don't want all their economic and cultural activity mediated by US Big Tech.
Tech Chiefs, Foreign Leaders Urge Trump to Rethink AI Chip Curbs - Bloomberg
Emboldened by Trump, A.I. Companies Lobby for Fewer Rules - NY Times
As the Trump administration loosens AI rules, states look to regulate the technology - Colorado Newsline
Ambient AI might make your doctor’s visit better. - Washington Post
But not if the economic system wants to make it worse, for instance by having the nurse take your history and having the doctor just review the AI without talking to you, or talking to you much less.
Will your health insurance pay out? AI will decide - Newsweek
Good luck arguing with the AI, even assisted by your own AI
Health insurers’ rapid adoption of AI tools is outpacing regulators’ ability to keep watch - STAT
How AI agents work - Computerworld
Qodo likes LangGraph - Qodo
LangGraph architecture makes a lot of sense to me, but LangChain has tended to be a little rough around the edges, and OpenAI's agent framework at first glance seems more like Microsoft's AutoGen multi-agent architecture.
(LangGraph is what I use for news summary) - Qodo
Tesla pauses self-driving trial in China pending FSD approval. - Reuters
China plays by its own rules and whoever is connected like BYD might set the rules, if Tesla is out of favor they are gonna have a hard time.
I made some youtube instructional videos but they are hard to watch, I think an AI avatar would be easier to listen to.
1 in 8 teens know someone targeted by deepfake nudes - USA TODAY
DeepSeek V3 (non-reasoning large model) has a new update, moves to MIT license. I don't think it's in LM Arena yet. - Simon Willison
Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter. - Simon Willison
These Qwen models are the alternative to Gemma-27b that can run locally on your MacBook, also the reasoning QwQ-32B ... install LM Studio and maybe search for quantized 6-bit or lower versions.
Microsoft Security Copilot launches AI agents to monitor networks, help detect and manage problems and keep them secure - The Register
iOS 18.4 release candidate with more Apple Intelligence rolls out. - The Verge
AI-powered phishing tests will converse with targets. You bastards. - Hacker Noon
Ranked: Most Popular AI Tools by Monthly Site Visits - Visual Capitalist
DeepSeek jumps, some surprises in there like Janitor character AI.
At risk of stating the obvious, it's amateur hour at the White House
Trump and Miran are not wrong that globalization and USD as reserve currency causes Dutch disease in US, strong dollar hollows out manufacturing and anything that doesn’t create huge rents. Even Boeing and Intel are now shells of their former selves.
But tariffs and trade wars and de-globalization would mean a deep global recession and lost decade, probably. Far from short-term pain anyway.
Smoot-Hawley redux.
Billionaires learned nothing from the 20s and 30s, want to go back to the 19th century robber baron era, and it did not end well at all.
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