weekend ai reads for 2025-04-11

We wrote two endings: a “slowdown” and a “race” ending. However, AI 2027 is not a recommendation or exhortation. Our goal is predictive accuracy.

We encourage you to debate and counter this scenario. We hope to spark a broad conversation about where we’re headed and how to steer toward positive futures.

We’re exploring the frontiers of AGI, prioritizing readiness, proactive risk assessment, and collaboration with the wider AI community.

This will make firms (and other organizations) strange. I am not sure that it will straightforwardly make them better, but it will almost certainly make more efficient and profitable. They will probably be heavier at the top than they are today, and so conceivably far more variable.

Small percentages of each group expect AI will have a positive impact on news and elections, with most flagging concerns in these areas. And more than half of both sides agreed that they want more control over AI and do not trust the government to regulate AI—predicting that the US will be too lax.

If you don’t work for it, you can’t get it.

Then I had a meeting with the CEO where he told me he noticed I wasn’t using the Chat GPT account the company had given me. I wasn’t really aware the company was tracking that.

“Ok, hold on,” Manzanet-Daniels said. “Is that counsel for the case?”

“I generated that. That’s not a real person,” Dewald answered.

It was, in fact, an avatar generated by artificial intelligence. The judge was not pleased.

As several AI researchers pointed out on X, Meta noted in its announcement that the Maverick on LM Arena is an “experimental chat version.” A chart on the official Llama website, meanwhile, discloses that Meta’s LM Arena testing was conducted using “Llama 4 Maverick optimized for conversationality.”

lbazaz said Inkitt aspires to be the “Disney of the 21st century.” It wants to turn content into “blockbuster franchises” (books, TV and, sure, maybe even theme parks), and to do it by replacing the one factor he sees as leading to “bad or incorrect or inefficient” decisions: “human gatekeepers” and their subjective taste. He argues that AI-based technologies can better attract lots of readers.

1. Start a chat in the Claude project

2. Tell it what you want to research

3. Answer the clarifying questions it asks

4. Copy the resulting prompt artefact into your preferred Deep Research model

5. Press go

One of the most impressive aspects of working with Cursor has been its ability to help me navigate unfamiliar territory. Despite having only occasionally used JavaScript professionally and never having touched TypeScript before, I found myself confidently adding features to a foreign codebase within minutes. The AI assistant made me feel fluent in languages and frameworks that were practically new to me.

But I do know this: the fundamentals of coding haven’t changed. Computers have evolved, but the basics remain the same. What I learned in school still holds true. And if you’re just starting out, the basics are where you should begin.

Though in my opinion a lot of being a “senior” is in soft-skills, when it comes to the technical hard-skills, a lot comes down to Fingerspitzengefühl. The longer you work with a language, framework or codebase, the more you develop this kind of intuition of what the correct approach is.

I always advise executives to use an AI product and send out a note to the organization that ends with “written by Glean” to promote that you used AI to help you. Eventually, that visibility will help normalize AI within an organization and set up objectives around it.

Adam Godson, founder and CEO of Paradox, says that the KPMG bot is working well because it addresses a narrow issue, and adds companies should be careful about overhauling their entire system.

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Out of 310 school leaders surveyed by Education Week Research Center in January and February of 2025, 74 percent said they expect the information they collect about vendors' cybersecurity protections will increase.

To address this gap, we’ve conducted one of the first large-scale studies of real-world AI usage patterns in higher education, analyzing one million anonymized student conversations on Claude.ai.

Spoiler: it doesn’t. But it should.

Sec-Gemini v1 achieves this by combining Gemini’s advanced capabilities with near real-time cybersecurity knowledge and tooling. This combination allows it to achieve superior performance on key cybersecurity workflows, including incident root cause analysis, threat analysis, and vulnerability impact understanding.

The Docker Model Runner plugin lets you:

Pull models from Docker Hub Run AI models directly from the command line Manage local models (add, list, remove) Interact with models using a submitted prompt or in chat mode

Take an image of a cat. Apply Nightshade to the image, and the AI model will see not a cat but something entirely different — perhaps a chair. Do this to enough images of cats, and gradually the model stops seeing cats and sees only chairs. Ask the same model to generate a picture of a cat, and you get an overstuffed high-back chair instead, maybe even with scrolled wooden feet.

Ideally, do not log in or access any of your personal services on work computers. Most of them have company-operated spyware installed on them to protect the company's intellectual property.