Oprah’s upcoming AI television special sparks outrage among tech critics: AI opponents say Gates, Altman, and others will guide Oprah through an AI "sales pitch." ARS Tech

Sutskever strikes AI gold with billion-dollar backing for superintelligent AI: ARS Tech reports top venture firms back SSI to develop "safe" AI with teams in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.

Apple needs time to be on its side for AI iPhones: WSJ reports that Wall Street is seeing moderate iPhone sales gains over the next two years, as AI features will roll out slowly.

Few have tried OpenAI’s Google killer. Here’s what they think. WP

Generative AI backlash hits annual writing event, prompting resignations: ARS Tech reports that NaNoWriMo refuses to condemn AI as accessibility tool, faces criticism from writers.

Australian government trial finds AI is much worse than humans at summarizing: Llama2-70B failed to capture "complex context," but updated models might do better. ARS Tech

AI data boom mints Australia’s latest billionaire after $16bn Blackstone deal: FT reports cricket fan Robin Khuda came to country from Bangladesh and built AirTrunk into pan-Asian business.

Nvidia and other investors back applied digital with $160 million in funding: WSJ reports the fresh capital is expected to help the data-center and AI cloud-computing company grow.

New AI standards group wants to make data scraping opt-in: The Dataset Providers Alliance wants to make AI data licensing ethical. ARS Tech

Enjoy the ride + plan accordingly.

-Marc