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Re:Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:21AM (#50071306)
Same thing they did with windsurf
Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:52AM (#49891641)
Ah, yes...Russia had no choice but to invade the land of the sovereign nation and bomb civilian targets with hypersonic missiles.
Re:Google Takes the A.I. Data Center Race to Outer Space on Thursday September 24, 2026 @04:05PM (#49836116)
You don't think Google has a self-interest in this? Google up how many shares of spacex are held by Alphabet.
Alphabet holds approximately 551 million shares of SpaceX (trading under the ticker SPCX), valued at roughly $94.1 billion, which represents about a 4% to 6% stake in the company.
FBI really screwed the pooch
Oracle is going to bear the brunt of this. If OpenAI can't make a LOT of money, how are they going to pay Oracle?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-made-a-300-billion-bet...

Is it anti-Musk to point out Musk makes wild promises that rarely come true...robotaxis at scale, xAI creating MacroHard etc etc.
Don't forget MacroHard
Were these engineers fired and replaced with AI? Article implies they brought back retired engineers.
How many people use grok professionally? Compared to claude code/codex?
Re:OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @10:08AM (#48645222)
Chinese and Russian intel agencies can set up American shell corporations and buy all of our personal data....but using a model to secure my customer? Well...no...you can't have that.
This is a gift to Anthropic. Our model is so good the US government banned it...Oh, and we're doing an IPO soon.
That doesn't make sense. Presumably AI search costs more
In my opinion, being "Not American" or "Not Chinese" is not a good business model long-term.

Exactly..

What happens when the capability of American models far exceeds the capability of non-American models? Wouldn't companies using American models have a huge advantage?

Re:SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @10:29AM (#47864172)
doing much outside of 'grok is this true'

Hey...don't forget "grok is this person jewish(hint hint)"...or..just "grok do your thing"

https://www.threads.com/@trosen76/post/DTlYw7sFXvR

OkCupid and Match do not have to pay a financial penalty
Re:Can you reverse engineer our neural network? on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:48AM (#47181891)
Company X sued by company Y shouldn't automatically translate to company X did a bad thing. Companies get sued all the time.
Why does DoD need claude? I thought xAI was "less woke" and far better than claude
Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:16AM (#47153539)
Why is it wrong for US diplomats to advocate for a policy that clearly benefits US companies?
Re:OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @04:35PM (#47143435)
and that's just my doordash order..
Re:OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @04:34PM (#47143430)
Wasn't most of this spending going to ORCL?

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/ORCL

Remember this press conference?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYUoANr3cMo

Re:Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @04:30PM (#47143374)
yeah they should get up on stage and hold hands

https://fortune.com/2026/02/19/openai-anthropic-sam-altman-d...

Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics on Monday February 23, 2026 @10:22AM (#47123462)
It's not complicated. LIDAR hardware was in short supply during COVID. Elon obviously couldn't slow down production and sink the inflated stock price.
He going to fix this by having grok redefine "widespread"

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/musk-tesla-robotaxis-us-expa...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the company’s robotaxis will be “widespread” in the U.S. by the end of 2026.

Re:Software Engineering Is Back on Saturday February 07, 2026 @12:40PM (#46925752)
> They would rather accept someone else’s structure, despite having to force fit it into their product, rather than taking the time to start from the goal and work backwards to create the perfect suit for their idea. Like an architect blindly accepting another architect’s blueprints and applying them regardless of the context, the needs, the terrain, the new technological possibilities. We decided to remove complexity not by sharpening our mental models around the products we build, but by buying a one size fits all design and applying it everywhere. That is not simplification. That is intellectual surrender.

Sorry, i don't buy this. There is a very good reason to use tried and tested frameworks. Am I "intellectually surrendering" when I use a compiler/language/framework that has a great track record?

And how is it not "intellectual surrender" to let the AI do the work for you?

Remember...they can make you use touch id...they can't make you give them your password.

https://x.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it.

Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:48PM (#46865244)
And? Donald Trump's presidency has made it clear that "this is bad for our country" isn't a sufficient argument.
Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Monday February 02, 2026 @07:48PM (#46864685)
What's to stop president AOC from pulling the clearances of everyone working for SpaceX?

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