Exactly. Remember what happened to Boeing when they seem to forget that safety mattered. Alot.

This CEO will either be rewarded for hitting Board-specified growth targets, or fired for failing.

The incentives are the problem.

Proton is noted for its excellent security.

If the CEO is risking their brand, he should just remember what happened to Boeing when they forget about safety.

The CEO likely knows this, so it's some kind of misaligned incentives ... driven by either:
-- his personally earning financial rewards for hitting Board-defined targets, or ...
-- fear of removal for not accomplishing what his Board demands.

Read this, it has the facts, not just assumptions: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector

The data is at that Appolo.com link. Here are the summary FACTS.

"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493, see the first chart below. Profit margins are rising for the Mag 7 but are flat for the S&P 493, see the second chart below. And there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth, see the third chart below. With no impact on the bottom line, mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins.

VC-backed companies are spending more and more on tokens, but mainstream corporate America does not need the latest model and is unwilling to pay for it. As long as agentic AI and token spending are confined to a small part of the economy, the macroeconomic effects of AI will be very limited, see the fourth and fifth charts below.

The question looking ahead is whether, even as models become commoditized, mainstream corporate America can turn increasingly cheap intelligence into higher revenue growth and higher profit margins. That may be harder than it sounds. AI may be a great calculator, but in business, intelligence is mostly judgment. Judgment depends on context, and the answer varies with which human or which model you ask. Perhaps most importantly, AI does not understand accountability, trust, culture, unwritten rules, ethical trade-offs or fairness, all of which shape reputational risk and ultimately drive revenue growth and profit margins.

The bottom line is that the AI story will be decided in the S&P 493, not the Mag 7, and so far, there is no evidence that revenue growth or margins are improving outside the tech sector."

I first met him in the 1990s, while he was still working at InfoWorld, and we became friends immediately.

He helped me get a job or two, and he was always filled with crazy (meaning really good) ideas.

I'll miss him and his creativity greatly.

Thanks, Gravis.

I appreciate the effort you put into your reply. And good to know that there are Agents that can do all of that.

Regarding "It seems like a rapidly progressing project, so you might want to hold off with the installation." ... I'll wait a bit and will give it a try some future day.

Still wishfully hoping someone will just post the MacOS download

I need help creating the macOS browser. I no longer have the required skills.

It seems the macOS build process requires installing a bunch of libraries and executing a fairly complex series of commands.

I was a professional computer programmer for nearly 50 years, but this is now far beyond my ability (I'm 80+ years old).

I'd appreciate anyone creating a macOS browser for others to download.

The article does not explain how this might not work as well (or at all) in a more crowded (or even slightly less austere) space.

Since we cannot perfectly avoid being near wi-fi much of the time ...

We can at least make ourselves BinFaced to avoid detection.

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

When I first read this post, I thought the same as you: garbage framing.

You've nicely posited some alternative explanations -- NONE OF WHICH are addressed in the first paper linked (Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly), contrary to one reply below yours.

Correlation, as we know, is not causation. Until proven otherwise, those research efforts are just blind to many other possible causes.

Maybe I'm confused, but I think that FCC rules will not impact the verification of burner phone elsewhere in the world.

Which, I suspect is where much of the spam/fraud/etc originates.

Voice over IP from elsewhere will always exist, thus this isn't the protection that the FCC wishes to create.

Or am I confused (I am 80 years old, and long retired from tech)?

For many years, my friends and I have noticed that Google Translate (and YouTube) have a better chance of getting a European language pronoun wrong than correct.

We've noticed this: French, Italian, German, Spanish ... and most of the Scandinavian languages all suffer from this.

It must somehow be related to how those LLMs are trained.

Talking robot dog?

K-9 was introduced in Doctor Who during the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) serial The Invisible Enemy, which first aired in October 1977.

"Drink up, the world's about to end." -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy