Also also, we need an excuse for why we're not hitting the milestones I promised.

Other recording devices do not constantly record on their own, waiting for you to give them the instruction to do so after they do the actual recording. That is what it seems the spyWatch is doing.

This is illegal in many states. Apple is demonstrating the modern corporate position of "breaking the law is not illegal if a corporation decides it will make money doing it".

Once Trump is gone, the people who voted for Trump, and those who have enabled him in office, will all be unchanged.

This is just stage setting for moats to protect big, established players down the road.

Your cheap, local, open (and/or foreign) AI might be a dangerous threat to all humanity! Bill Gates says that you cannot in good conscience be allowed to own or operate such things, or at the very least there must be a level of regulation and taxation that is ruinous on the would-be small scale AI operator. Only the wise and experienced OpenAI and its equivalents - which by sheer coincidence have deep connections to Microsoft and Gates fellow billionaires - can be trusted to provide society with the massive benefits of AI. In return for government subsidies and a generous private profit of course. But don't worry! In the spirit of philanthropy, Gates will promise that some of the benefits of AI will trickle down to the masses.

I think we're going to get a new spin on this old line. The market *will* remain irrational, while *we* (the public, collectively and individually) go insolvent. But the finance sector and the billionaires will be kept whole, which is what they and their government (because it sure doesn't belong to us) want.

"Amazing but oversold" might well sum up the whole LLM-era.

How much of that revenue is from OpenAI and other LLM companies?

Look, there's no reason to impugn cockroaches like that.

At least we can count on the stock market to be honest and based on reality!

I had an LG slide-style phone with a physical keyboard, and if I could get something with that same form factor that would work (and had a decent camera) today, I would happily carry and use it. Sliders were perfect, and I'm still sad there's no current equivalent.

Holmes *was* an outlier, in that she defrauded and embarrassed members of the ruling elite, and thus was punished for her fraud and lies. Had she done the same thing but picked her victims better, she'd have a successful and lucrative career.

>most of which isn't Mozilla's fault

It is completely the Mozilla foundation's choice to keep chasing unicorns and rainbows rather than the browser their users want.

"When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Drone state of the art puts us closer to such a world every day.

While "the government is very stupid" shouldn't be ruled out, given pattern and practice of government in general, and this government in particular, "Missing nuclear scientists! National Security!" seems like it could serve as legal cover for a wide range of possible abuses.