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They are fighting to get in to get a stake so they can dump their bags on the public and good old tax payer.

They are and were aiming to be included in S&P and Nasdaq indexes, thank god they are considered junk debt.

Even outside of that their 800 billion, and I assume OpenAI's equally shitty compute contracts pollute the MAG7 revenue lines.

How much does it represent the MAG7 revenue books? How much is their shitty stock deal counted towards the above assets?

When that money fails to materialize, again john taxpayer will be looking to bail out whilst the scum run away having cashed out ASAP.

Fuck all the people involved.

Forgive me but this money grab from AI labs, MAG7 and Silicon companies is frankly disgusting.

It is not for the benefit of society, it is not good engineering, it is pure financial fuckery. ENRON smartest guys in the room esque.

Am encouraging everyone I know to dump US bonds, US stocks because to hell with these hucksters trying to steal my pension.

They just released MacOS 27.2 a few days ago? How and why did they not do a patch at least then?
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:54AM (#50243760)
Even outside of the Chinese models, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta all of them are offering significantly more coherent and competitive internal models and reasonable price.

Why would I pick anthropic.

Re:AMD plans to substantially increase supply in 2027 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:04AM (#49977239)
I don’t see the value in this news piece. If AMD announced they were going to reduce the supply then it would show a lack of competitiveness and belief in the AI story. They would lose a tonne on the stock market.

Given a bubble they have no alternative but to hype it up?

At the moment given oil and bond crisis, including Oracle force majeur on Project Jupiter it seems the bond market money supply is tight. Same with SoftBank’s 1 trillion yen bond in Tokyo at 4.9%?

Seems to me that AMD again wants to hold hot potato of inventory…

Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:33AM (#49710351)
I wouldn’t judge the ntpd-rs move from this. Have been running it for 9 months or so with a nts pool in ntp server mode on my pi5. Been rock solid.
Snaps are a lot lot better in this regard especially in the perspective of connections.

You can define connections to home, camera, network etc...

I have not seen the same in flatpak.

Re:Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:38AM (#49644501)
Odd how much data people are trusting with a company on a monetary cliff edge.

Sure send them all your financial, personal data, they won't ever sell it on to the highest bidder for a new profit stream.

Using it as a therapist, financial advisor, health expert and blackboard has always been a terrible idea.

Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:27PM (#49556420)
Always wondered why making something like a rust memory safe Firefox, Linux, vlc, ffmpeg or curl isn’t a benchmark for these LLMs.
It means financial companies have been illogically pumping semiconductor companies the last 5 months despite the profits, royalties and supply chain being entire worse than a year ago.

They pumped ai adjacent stocks to draw retail in, to provide liquidity now when they are in theory forced to purchase SpaceX.

Effectively getting people to buy semi-ai stocks at a premium to fund their forced purchase for SpaceX.

My theory is hedgies and investment banks using semi and ai hype as a liquidity bridge to drop into SpaceX which happens next week.

Arm and AMD pumped to insane levels on basically nothing.

What proof is there for your narrative versus mine?

Re:New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:38PM (#47903941)
How often do you have to do fast transfers from computer to computer?

Would argue for those purposes 40gig thunderbolt makes a lot more sense.

If this is true, I feel teh wifi alliance have a tonne to answer for the ewaste they generate.

WPA3 moved from symmetric AES to ECDH which is vulnerable to Quantum. Gonna be a tonne of IOT inverters waste.

Apple is about to deprecate the iphone 11/SE 2020 version. Am gonna repurpose them as webcams given the 12MP camera put in there is arguably better than the brand new ones they put on new macs.

The phone now has a limited lifespan though because of this prior stupidity where eventually am gonna get into spicy pillow territory. At that point the phone prematurely dies.

We are going into a period where we are throwing away devices with 12mp+ cameras, and processors arguably faster than most desktops. It was arguable when the phones were old and legacy, but at this point the cameras on there are stupidly good.

We need these phones to be repurposed for a second life and actually capture their manufacture energy costs.

Frankly, if Apple allowed old iphones to be used for server usage, it is kind of crazy how efficient per dollar that would be.

Re:Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business on Monday February 16, 2026 @08:40AM (#47034808)
ARM is a bloody financial hand grenade.

10% of the stock is floated.

90% of the stock is owned by Masa who used it for collateral for his 18 billion loan for Stargate. THat is against 33 banks who have a strong incentivise to dump in a margin call situation.

Their revenues are circular for the last 4 years, with 30% growth purely coming from Softbank shuffling their own money.

They are gonna be the canary in the coal mine for when the AI bubble implodes.

Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @01:04PM (#46978467)
The US job stats were revised down for 2025 to 181k, but somehow the Country gained 130k in January?

Is anyone looking at this and the CBO figures and not just realising the government is straight lying about the figures?

Gonna believe Powell and Waller on this one.

Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:37AM (#46872312)
That is not a correct assumption. https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/

Reports in North Virginia and Texas are stating existing data centres are being capped 30% to prevent residential brownouts.

Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:36AM (#46871484)
Okay but even in that case the hardware suffers significant under utilisation which massively hits RoI. (I think I read they only achieve 30% utilisation in this scenario)
Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @08:10AM (#46870537)
They worked out because there was an excess of energy and water to handle it.

We will see how the maths works out given there is 19 GW shortage of power. 7 year lead time for Siemens power turbines, 3-5 years for transformers.

Raw commodities are shooting up, not enough education to cover nuclear and SMEs and the RoI is already underwater.

Buy gold.

Current US debt to gdp is 124%, 38.6 trillion. Japan too at 230-240%.

Bond markets in both are looking seriously unhealthy (Japan going via a Liz Truss moment at present).

If the AI bubble falls over, the US government is going to have to print 5 trillion to cover the bubble at least. The only option there is inflate away anyone holding cash.

If hte AI succeeds and people are replaced, the US government faces a massive fiscal cliff of a loss of tax receipts. They won't be able to service the debt and again will be forced to inflate away.

To service current debt projects, AI growth needs to return some 3.2-3.5%, it is currently 0.5%.

Bonds, equities, USD, and housing are all risk assets right now.

I think ARM is the one to watch. Softbank only has a 10% float of their stock.

90% of their stock is being used as collateral against 33 banks for 18 billion stargate loan to OpenAI.

Given Japanese bond markets right now, 30% circular financing, if the AI narrative falls, ARM is gonna blow up.

Re:Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @04:47PM (#46140643)
A 5090 gaming card is a different beast to the 80gb ai cards. That one was 40k usd so for renting that to hit 1.50 dollar per hour is interesting.
Re:Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:10PM (#46139415)
I am still a little skeptical about utilisation rates. If demand is so extreme, wouldn't we see rental prices for H100/A100 prices go up or maintain? Wouldn't the cost for such a gpu still be high (you can get em 3k used).
Re:GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack on Friday November 28, 2025 @01:39PM (#46081450)
The defacto install of github CLI on ubuntu systems appears to be snap which is owned by some random dude...
Re:Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust on Saturday September 27, 2025 @09:19AM (#45395497)
There is AMD's onload https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload. It works with Solarflare, Xilinx but also generic NIC support via AF_XDP.
Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @07:03PM (#45205310)
The cpu is what a 9950x whilst paired with one of the cheapest asus motherboards with underpowered VRMs according to games nexus, hardware unboxed.

The cooler was under the rated tdp of the platform. That and it lasted 6 months and so far seemed the only case of it falling over like it did.

Yea am leaning on it being user error.

Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:47AM (#45166001)
General consensus on that case seems to be they picked a budget motherboard and skimped on the cooler.
Re:New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @07:34PM (#42859990)
Am curious if the problem impacts m4 given it came out after this was released and disclosed.

That and it moved to Arm’s 9.2 instructions.

The biggest discussion I have been on having this is the implications on Deepseek for say the RoI H100. Will a sudden spike in available GPUs and reduction in demand (from efficient GPU usage) dramatically shock the cost per hour to rent a GPU. This I think is the critical value for measuring the investment value for Blackwell now.

The price for a H100 per hour has gone from the peak of $8.42 to about $1.80.

A H100 consumes 700W, lets say $0.10 per kwh?

A H100 costs around $30000.

Given deepseek, can the price of this drop further given a much larger supply of available GPUs can now be proven to be unlocked (Mi300x, H200s, H800s etc...).

Now that LLMs have effectively become commodity, with a significant price floor, is this new value ahead of what is profitable for the card.

Given the new Blackwell is $70000, is there sufficient applications that enable customers to get a RoI on the new card?

Am curious about this as I think I am currently ignorant of the types of applications that businesses can use to outweigh the costs. I predict that the cost per hour of the GPU dropping such that it isn't such a no-brainer investment compared to previously. Especially if it is now possible to unlock potential from much older platforms running at lower electricity rates.

It should be trivially easy to reproduce the results no? Just need to wait for one of the giant companies with many times the GPUs to reproduce the results.

I don't expect a #180 AUM hedgefund to have as many GPUs than meta, msft or Google.

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