OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules

Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by dmix on Friday March 14, 2025 @10:07AM (#43362784)

I remember for years people on HN said Uber would never work as a profitable business because it spent a lot of VC money earlier on without having enough revenue to cover it all. It's been around for 16yrs now despite running in the black until 2023.

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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by DesaiAshu on Friday March 14, 2025 @10:47AM (#43363127)

uber is like a fine wine. it will appreciate and pay dividends until it bursts when waymo et. al. take over the streets in 20 years

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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by dmix on Friday March 14, 2025 @11:59AM (#43363906)

Waymo has ~1000 cars. Uber has 8 million drivers. Worst case Uber will be acquired or merger or make a deal with one of the many AI driving startups.

I predict Waymo will have their own struggles with profitability. Last I heard the LIDAR kit they put on cars costs more than the car. So they'll have to mass produce + maintain some fancy electronics on a million+ cars.

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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by realityfactchex on Friday March 14, 2025 @01:40PM (#43364999)

FYI: s/running in the black/running in the red/

[0] https://languagesystems.edu/history-of-idioms-to-be-in-black...

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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by dartos on Saturday March 15, 2025 @11:11AM (#43373025)

Do you remember when people also thought rabbit would be a revolutionary AI device?

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