The entire FUD about safety is really about cost. OpenAI and Antropic are losing money on every token. Google's cost is a fraction while still making profits.
https://arena.ai/leaderboard/t...

Google 4 Argon ranks #1 with 1525 score and $2/$10 pricing for 1M tokens.
Claude Fable 5 ranks #3 with 1505 score but $10/$50 pricing for 1M tokens.
OpenAI 5.6 Sol barely makes top 20 with a 1484 score with a $4/$20 for 1M tokens.

Sam and Dario appreciate anyone who wants to subsidize their investors by paying 5x token costs.
Meanwhile, Tom's Hardware is reporting AI token pricing is 50% cheaper every quarter. It's hard to make profits to repay early investors when you keep losing money on every token OpenAI and Anthropic handles.

Your logic is backwards - how many people are SAVED from the use of machines that provide refrigeration?
The CDC estimates that roughly 3,000 Americans die from foodborne illnesses each year, which is a small fraction of historical mortality rates due to the constant use of home and commercial chillers.

Expanding refrigeration to air conditioning, an estimated 175,000 people die from heat-related causes each year in Europe according to the UN World Health Organization. Use of air conditioning "machines" could have saved those 175,000 each year in Europe alone.

Life is deadly, but machines like Waymo, refrigerators, and air conditioning actually make death and injury much less likely.

Since GPT2.0 the cost of tokens has dropped by 99.9% - A verifiable number that blows away Moore's law for computing. Nvidia depends on AI companies to buy GPUs. OpenAI and friends received funding rounds based on anticipated profits that were calculated from what they could charge for tokens. Google has driven the cost of tokens down using the custom silicon they have developed in-house in 2014, the TPU. In 2025 alone, Google pushed prices down another 78%. This massive hardware efficiency allows Google to launch models like Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, pricing input tokens as low as $0.10 to $0.30 per 1 Million tokens, forcing OpenAI and Anthropic to consistently cut their own model prices to remain competitive. The problem for OpenAI is that they are losing money while Google is making a profits.

By selling fear, OpenAI and friends get excuses to give investors on why their profits have not materialized as promised. Meanwhile, Google will continue to drink everyone's milkshake by pursuing a free-market based Netscape vs IE strategy of driving the price of tokens to zero. Eventually, Nvidia will have to refocus on making GPUs for our gaming PCs.

Now apply this same logic of parental blame vs sensible legislation to other risks to children, including guns, drugs, etc.

Also, this law just ensures the next series of debates and laws around what exactly is clear and identifiable definitions of "addictive feeds".

AI guardrails solve one problem and create another.

Imagine two people are fighting for the world boxing championship - one person is required to fight with an arm tied behind their back and heavily padded gloves while the other person uses performance enhancing drugs and brass knuckles. This is the AI safety debate as seen by governments, and the results and outcomes are pretty clear.

No one should doubt that the future of warfare will be AI led drone swarms, infrastructure attacks, hacking, tasking orders, and targeting. The countries with the most strict guardrails will almost certainly lose, excluding any other significantly deciding factors. This is reality, not opinion. It is the prisoner's dilemma for AI usage.

The reactions to this are as idiotic as the renaming is. It is low brow, low intellect, stupidity all around.

4. Chrome is bought by a company secretly linked to foreign intel agencies and becomes an embedded spy tool on everyone, everywhere, on every device.

No thank you. I'd rather be targeted by ads than hostile intel agencies.

Copyright does not protect selective enforcement and Courts look at the use itself - such as parody, education, or criticism.

No case here which is why they are whinging in the public square

Polymarkets are commodities.
Insider trading on Polymarket and similar prediction markets is illegal. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) considers prediction markets to be commodities markets, meaning traders are subject to federal commodities fraud and anti-manipulation laws.

Trading based on material nonpublic information can lead to severe civil and criminal penalties - Michele is facing 10 years for insider trading, 20 for money laundering (crypto-swapping to hide source and profits), and 20 years for destruction of evidence to hide major financial crimes.

Here is the official sealed statement signed by Judge detailing the particulars of the crime.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-s...

Polymarket bets are commodities. Inside trading of commodities is illegal.
Michele Spagnuolo was clearly well aware his actions were criminal, as the court document details his efforts to hide identity and obscure the financial transactions through use of ethereum, USDC, and crypto-swapping services, as well as deleting accounts after online speculation that the gains were the result of insider activity.

He has brought shame on the Google Security team, though it appears Google's Security Team did assist in identifying him and assisting the investigation.

CNBC Interview with Ryan Cohen this morning.

Either he did this interview after an all-night Hunter Biden-esque binge of crack and hookers or he is a complete moron. Entirely incapable of understanding or answering obvious and basic questions. Watch and make your own judgement.

https://youtu.be/Bmj2PaxX24E?s...

and myself and others will financially support your effortsâ¦

This is false.
Yes google had a "queries scroll" video display in some lobbies, but it was NOT real time and it was manually curated to only safe examples.
I know because I was there, I had the code, and I even pulled an April Fool stunt with my own curated "queries".

As a side note, the very first "slashdot" server sat on a shelf near my workspace at Google.

If you do not promise to stop stealing my stuff, I am not going to invite you back to my house for dinner.

We all appreciate a free press, but free press is not the same as a press that is party to a crime by receiving and publishing illegally obtained material.

The real problem, however, is when the press claims to have obtained inside info and publishes inflammatory articles with the intent to influence policy and elections and that information is later proven to be false. Just a few examples are Dan Rather reporting military records on Bush (fake), Clinton funding (fake) intel dossier on Trump, Wikileaks publishing (fake/edited) videos and declaring a military "slaughter" of civilians. This type of reporting does serious harm to our democracy - and speech that causes harm is not always protected.

A few notes.
Google has been the leader in ML/AI before OpenAI even existed. It has been integrated in their products for well over a decade, including translate, autocorrect, sentence completion, predictive search, etc. Google literally authored and publicly released the leading research on AI and LLMs, including the key research on âoeattentionâ.
Microsoft and OpenAI were bedfellows early on with the specific intent of embedding AI into Microsoft projects. Then OpenAI screwed over Microsoft.
OpenAI complaining is really rich, given how they continue to violate their âoeopenâ charter in the pursuit of Sam Altmanâ(TM)s ego. OpenAI has not been open, they have not benefited others, and they seek absolute control of technology others developed.