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Tech itself may not be a big employer, but the whole point of paying for AI is to eventually save billions on salaries, payroll taxes and insurance premiums, is it not? What happen…

Just because the hardware and inference costs may decrease in the future doesn't mean prices will. The AI vendor market is the furthest thing from a competitive industry where ther…

In other words, the private equity sales pitch. You left out the bit about jacking up the price and milking customers for every penny until their contracts expire.

You can't possibly believe Apple had no hand in the Huawei ban.

Consumer demand is much more price-sensitive than enterprise demand, not least because the latter can issue bonds to pay for RAM and GPUs. Prices for consumers are going up everywh…

"Involved in their own healthcare" tends to mean getting second opinions, reading medical articles, joining a support group and talking to other patients. Pretty soon it will mean …

From this[0] > A lawsuit filed by Scott Winters, a 55-year-old pastor from Florida, claimed ChatGPT told him not to seek medical help after repeatedly asking about symptoms in the …

> If this makes the PS6 cheaper then great. Yes, I'm sure that was top of mind for Playstation executives when making this decision. /s

So why not send this out as an email? What purpose does a public proclamation serve?

Using more Internet at work than at night playing 4K Netflix or downloading 100GB+ games and multi-GB patches? Doubtful.

"Explain like I'm pitching to TechCrunch Disrupt".

That's what the entire apparatus of sanctions and blockades are for - to make sure they don't make the wrong choice.

not to mention hiding all the Twitter losses inside of xAI because AI in general loses lots of money.

Burton Malkiel's "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" was published in 1973, well before significant changes to financial markets that affect its theoretical randomness. 1. 401Ks were …

They were always the regional hegemon next to Israel. US leaders just happen to love the canard of "they'll welcome us as liberators" because it's the only thing they can attempt t…

Gubernatorial run in California.

All of these examples are Cold War era or before, when defense and aerospace was a much more collectivist venture with far less private sector involvement. After the Cold War, McKi…

A 5% stake in an overvalued private company without public financials and with an indeterminate timeline to profitability is a bailout. Shareholders cash out while the taxpayer is …

95% of countries weren't formed by settling on somebody else's land and excluding the original inhabitants from citizenship for several hundred years. The American project is what …

Even if you don't use FB, pictures of you tagged by your friends are fair game.

How can it be an elder dude fantasy when it was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck when they were in college? Robin Williams' character isn't pwning anyone. He's a therapist try…

Because a studio that spends $2 billion on a game is also spending several million to track online sentiment about their games.

Piracy is only doable on PC. GTA6 is specifically excluding PC from the initial launch because it was so widely pirated and modded.

I think there will definitely be a point where code generators require a payment method to be registered before they can be used, and then generate code for paid products that it a…