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Uber questions AI coding ROI & Deepfake voice scams escalate fast - AI News (May 27, 2026)
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- May 27, 2026
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Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: Uber questions AI coding ROI - Uber’s COO says rising spend on AI coding tools is hard to justify because usage doesn’t clearly translate into shipped features, putting ROI and R&D scrutiny front and center. Deepfake voice scams escalate fast - A Bay Area kidnapping scam used AI voice cloning to mimic a victim’s daughter, highlighting deepfake fraud, social-media audio risk, and the need for verification habits like family code words. GPU inference hits memory wall - A new analysis argues LLM inference is often limited by memory bandwidth and KV cache growth, shaping chip design, inference engines, and infrastructure around moving less data, not just adding compute. DeepSeek bets on efficiency - A thread claims DeepSeek’s real strategy is to reshape compute economics via efficiency methods and KV-cache compression, potentially shifting demand toward SSDs/NAND and broader hardware ecosystems. New ways to benchmark models - BenchBench proposes evaluating frontier models by having them invent new benchmarks, probing creativity and self-knowledge instead of just test-taking on saturated leaderboards. Formal math proofs with AI - DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus pairs an LLM with Lean verification to produce checked proofs, solving long-standing problems and showing how formal feedback loops can reduce hallucinated reasoning. Google Gemini 3.5 and Search - Google released…