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Re:Mistral Large 4
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:48AM (#49979350)
Ok, but Trump stated that the US is in active talks to take over parts of both OpenAI and Anthropic, too: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/trump-open-ai-altman-stake.h...
Re:Mistral Large 4
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:39AM (#49979226)
IMO the selective enforcement of regulatory requirements should be added to the list. Observing from the outside, I have a hard time believing that e.g. musks gas powered data centers really follow all the environmental laws, for example, or that the authorities really see no grounds for indictment if Altmans company hacks hundreds of third parties, or that there's really no one at the SEC having a problem with Anthropics fear mongering prior to the IPO.
Re:You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:19AM (#49891952)
Social Media brought a decline between 1975 and 1995? It surely plays a role (at least as a confounder), but can't be the sole cause.
Re:Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:37AM (#49890480)
Why xAI? They have no market share and their own data centers are over 90% idle/rented out to the other AI shops, so it's more likely that the money flows in the opposite direction.
Re:The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberr...
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:47AM (#49832353)
At its core those all ESP32 are microcontrollers with RISC-V cores[0] and integrated wifi. There's a plethora of peripheral configurations, hence all those ESP32-* variations. This one even has Gbit ethernet and audio, bit still, at it's core (hah), RISC-V with only a few hundred MHz and 512kB RAM. So the peripherals are now similar to a Raspberry Pi, but not the CPU part itself.
[0] older versions had Xtensa cores, not RISC-V.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:21AM (#49829634)
Did you honestly just invent a conspiracy about some unnamed people with a hidden agenda of making nuclear look expensive by paying 10B euros for decommissioning a working plant?
Just a suggestion, but alternatively you could also accept that in reality, decomissioning actually is expensive.
Re:Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:56AM (#49828883)
Because, as the arcticle states, the author comes from the position of whether to eat meat at all, so no meat vs. lab meat, not lab meat vs. slaughterhouse meat, as you imply.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:12AM (#49828527)
Have a look at this nuclear plant in Northern Germany that is in the process of being decomissioned since 1995. It's still not finished, suspected end date is now in the 2040s and is now projected to cost about 10B €. For a single plant.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Greifswald (you have to translate that page yourself, the English version doesn't contain the relevant information)
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:05AM (#49828490)
> Of course that kind of deal was insane, but it says more about financing long term projects on the market than it says anything about nuclear as a technology.
Well sure, but the alternatives aren't really affected by this, because they don't have to be planned and financed these such long time frames. So this is a problem for nuclear. The core technology seldomly is the deciding factor for these things.
Re:HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:08AM (#49740211)
OpenAI started fearmongering way back with GPT 2, arguing that model was too dangerous to release freely. That model was barely coherent enough for using it as a twitter bot. Anthropic just hopped onto that later. Conveniently, calling for regulation now would ease the competition from open Chinese models, opening the chance for both companies to eventually reach positive ROI, with consumers paying the price.
The burden of proof that this isn't just a publicity stunt again is squarely on them.
Re:How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Federal Discl...
on Monday September 14, 2026 @07:52AM (#49695299)
He has certainly made gas prices stronger
Re:DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:14AM (#49627937)
I guess this was a heavily quantized version from openrouter? I've never had that experience in the last months of quite intensive use of the official deepseek api.
Re:After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product A...
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:21AM (#49179230)
Most people want to live where other people live, for reasons ranging from social connections to access to services and infrastructure. I doubt broadband access access plays even a small role.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @01:56AM (#49179072)
Did you read beyond the headline? It's 1.65 trillion hidden and 1.35 trillion overt - which sums up to 3 trillion.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:51AM (#49169815)
Debt is at $3 trillion right now: https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/ai-debt-hypescalers-capex-cap...
Interest alone, at assumed 5%, amounts to about $150 billions per year. That's probably higher than the combined AI revenue of the top 3 providers.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:48AM (#49169774)
The big question is whether the demand will stay if the subsidized pricing ends. That's what the bubble talk is about. Right now all the players compete for market share and don't care about the losses (hence the debt). But what happens if no one wants to lend them anymore?
Re:EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services
on Monday July 27, 2026 @03:48AM (#49066332)
This is intended to drive you insane on purpose. It is just malicious compliance intended to make users blame the anti-monopoly regulators instead of the monopolists.
This is a corporation with tens of thousands of software developers. If they wanted to do better, they could. As always: If the UI is bad for you, that probably means that particular implementation is good for the corporation.
Re:OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:51AM (#49002752)
IMO they hope to make AI a strongly regulated industry, with OpenAI (and Anthropic) becoming military suppliers with their stronger models, and everything Chinese or open-weight gets banned.
The competition from the open models is so strong now that this seems to be the only way to keep both companies afloat, given their dire financials. OpenAI probably hoped that they can achieve market lead and then lower the training costs (and make inference cheap enough to eventually escape the red numbers), but the opposite is happening: The competition comes closer and closer, thus training has to be kept up with full force, thus the bleeding continues.
But if they can position themselves as too important/dangerous to be available for everyone (thus this incident report and the clever mentioning of GLM 5.2), they could get the military supplier treatment and would be protected from the market.
Re:Mozilla: The state of open source AI
on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:58AM (#48956352)
To anyone having read about Mussolini, Italy's economy and political landscape in the 20s onward, his model of corporatism etc, the answer is obviously clear: the US. China also is authoritarian, of course, but the societal structure sharply differs from Italian fascism.
Re:Mozilla: The state of open source AI
on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:55AM (#48956329)
To add to that, to me it seems that the idea is that open weights vastly accelerate dissemination into and practical application in the wider economy, which seems to be the goal. They don't seem to subscribe to the AGI/singularity silliness so prevalent in the West.
Google required to open up to AI, search engine rivals under EU-mandated changes
A bit late now, but thanks for this detailed breakdown!
Re:Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy
on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:00AM (#48932020)
What makes you think Germany didn't do well with renewables? This almost looks like a hockey stick graph: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/climate-energy/rene...
Re:Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy
on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:31AM (#48921442)
The no brain solution is to electrify everything and switch legacy infrastructure to renewables, just like China does. Gas usage is down in the EU anyway.
Re:OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast by 90%, An...
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:55AM (#48903903)
You're right of course, but in this case the statement doesn't look that false. The source article [0] states that half of the assets is cash, so "assets" is defined a bit more freely here.
If we assume a 2026 revenue of 23B (Q1 2026 revenue x4) and costs of 70B (2025 costs * (2026 revenue / 2025 revenue)), even those 25B in cash reserves won't mean much. And this napkin math even ignores their debt obligations. So either they raise money in the range of 50-75B this year (actual money, not datacenter vouchers), or ...
[0] https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/
The Jack Ma story is that he tried to build a predatory peer to peer lending startup to profit off of working class people getting into high interest debt traps (because they aren't credit worthy for normal credit issued by regulated banks). Which is against the law in China. China is very strict in all things that resemble shadow banking, MLM schemes etc, they even have a .1 % tax on every transaction on the HKSE, to prevent a financialization of the economy like it happened in the West.
He's quite literally responsible for more deaths than Pol Pot, there's a paper in the Lancet estimating the amount of casualities directly resulting from the sudden cancellation of USAID funds.
Edit: Here it is: https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(25)01186-9/full...
"Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030."
The owner of this LLM is sieg heiling around, openly supports extremists across the EU, actively helped Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. Someone pays for his product. What do you think, will this have political consequences or will giving this guy have no effect whatsoever?
Re:Antares Achieves Criticality of Mark-0 Reactor
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:23AM (#48732424)
Coal is already shrinking in the China (in absolute terms, not just as share of production) [1], and share of wind + solar is already larger than in the US [2], so I doubt China will ever reach US proportions in CO2 emissions per capita.
An additional data point to support that is that emissions intensity per GDP is clearly falling fast for China [3].
[1] https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...
[2] https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...
[3] Chart 75 from here: https://robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/