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This $23B number that gets thrown around is not the increase to the public. The wording in the referenced report is > Based on actual auction clearing prices and quantities and upl…

Fwiw this got changed about a week ago, where they changed the logic to match the documentation rather than default to sending your prompts to their servers. This is why so many pe…

I think it's interesting that they dropped the date from the API model name, and it's just called "claude-opus-4-6", vs the previous was "claude-opus-4-5-20251101". This isn't an a…

They are definitely capable of writing such statements, which you can see in their enterprise products. In my Google Workspace gemini app it says pretty prominently and clearly: Yo…

https://azallianceforgolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/C-S... page 21, says Arizona 2015 golf course irrigation was 120 million gallons per day, citing the US Geological Survey. …

I was also surprised when someone asked me about AI's water consumption because I had never heard of it being an issue. But a cursory search shows that datacenters use quite a bit …

I've found a method that gives me a lot more clarity about a company's privacy policy: 1. Go to their enterprise site 2. See what privacy guarantees they advertise above the consum…

I agree in general, but I think some important context here is that the author of this post was previously on the OpenAI board (the board that fired Sam Altman).

The worst part to me is the privacy nightmare with AI Studio. It's essentially impossible to tell whether any particular API call will end up being included in their training data …

There are a few conditions that take precedence over having-billing-enabled and will cause AI Studio to train on your data. This is why I personally use Vertex

I found this overly handwavy, but I discovered that there is a non-"gentle" version of this page which is more explicit: https://dmodel.ai/nullability/

The benchmark numbers don't really mean anything -- Google says that Gemini 2.5 Pro has an AIME score of 86.7 which beats o3-mini's score of 86.5, but OpenAI's announcement post [1…

It's "experimental", which means that it is not fully released. In particular, the "experimental" tag means that it is subject to a different privacy policy and that they reserve t…

I believe that at least in the past the entertainment industry would try to detect someone seeding a file before going after them. The idea being that someone downloading is receiv…

I think people here might like Oliver Burkeman's books where he talks about this stuff a lot. I loved his book "Four Thousand Weeks", and there is a new follow-up "Meditation for M…

This reminds me about the Semantic Web, which was a movement explicitly about making the web more understandable to machines. I don't agree with the ideas and I think a lot of othe…

A while ago I talked with someone who was working on clang-format and they said they tried this (at Google, I think) and the results were not good: they found people write differen…

I think it's fascinating that when the topic is "shell companies" that the HN discourse is essentially "if they have nothing to hide then they don't need secrecy". I think that if …