TFA from Techcrunch is basically "creative editorializing" the original reporting of other sources (axios mainly) to justify the clickbait headline. But it you click through to the original sources the story is more nuanced and more interesting.

The surface dynamic is anthropic is in a delicate position and struggling to manage a "temperamental" regulatory power *and* strategic customer shortly before their IPO.

The background dynamic is multiple sources close enough to the matter in the exec branch felt so strongly this was an unnecessary escalation and that anthropic was the party who could and had to fix it, that they're talking to axios reporters the next day.

  In an administration that is proudly punitive of leaks, don't assume multiple people are spilling the tea to reporters this quickly out of civic interest or a strong belief in the role of free press.

Its not just who remains after the bubble pops - its we dont know yet *which product* will pay the bills, and *then* who remains selling that product.

OpenAI has more users overall, but they have mainly "sold" a free / loss leader product. Anthropic has become more popular on the enterprise "maybe eliza doesnt pay the bills" business model. OpenAI pivots but if this were "search" its too early to figure out if either of these is google or they're yahoo and altavista.

Nvidia seems to be betting this is the PC + MPC redux and all these folks are trying to be IBM selling mainframes; which is less of a "worst timeline" but they're biased since their valuation already priced in the "mainframe" market. Democratizing AI is a larger addressable market for a chips seller whether its a real market or not.

Or the real business model could be elsewhere altogether - I still remember the early aughts when the future of growth for the interwebs was telecoms and iTV and Netflix was shipping CDs and the video streaming business was licensing codecs.

I had VERY SPECIFIC requirements and I wanted the extended warranty. I would have paid 2x at a dealer. I know what I was doing.

I bought a used 2020 XC90 from CarMax last week. I did everything online from shipping it from Texas to Minnesota to financing the extended warranty. I walked in the door, gave them a cashier's check, and drove away within 10 minutes.

That's how it should be.

https://archive.is/uyPhk

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Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.

The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive, and that there are all sorts of gray areas that would make it unworkable to operate on such terms. Pentagon officials are insisting in negotiations with Anthropic and three other big AI labs â" OpenAI, Google and xAI â" that the military be able to use their tools for "all lawful purposes."

https://livingwage.mit.edu/met...

Typical annual salary, according to MIT's Living Wage Calculator for the NYC Metro, is $84,860.

Poverty wage is $7.52/hr (no kids) and minimum wage is $15.50 which, according to the calculator, should cover 1 adult with 3 kids.

The Brearley School, regarded as the best private school for girls in the nation and charging around $70K, is a non-profit.

What shareholders?

Or the site hallucinated it had been slashdotted, like the claudius vending machine bot

e.g.: the agent tasked as web admin has been trained on a couple decades of detritus from the interweb, and its convinced if its on the slashdot frontpage the site should be down like its 2004.

That was back when slashdot had more daily users than /r/breadstapledtotrees

The problem is a market exchange that is pliable to manipulation is by definition a strong predictor of its market movements.

If its purely 'stock markets', its all fun and games until the speculative assets infect the core economy. If you have any memory if 2008 that should be a concern, and that was a "could have gone terribly worse" scenario.

Polymarket brings speculation and feedback loops with consequences far out of the financial world. The risk of insider trading reaping "undeserved riches" is real, but the non-financial consequences of reckless insider trading influencing IRL policies is even greater.

Epistemicological is the study of the nature of knowledge that occurs spontaneously when you consume the right type of mushrooms

Isn't that what Kotlin and Scala and the half a dozen new JVM languages we see per year are all about? Take the decades of investment on the JVM and the lessons from java, start clean and keep interoperability at bytecode level...

The small bit of nerd news is shadowed by the press release as comment.

For Aldi, which uses Instacart, I assumed it was because there is no 'fee' for pickup, but they have to pay someone to shop for you. I consider the difference a convenience fee.

That said, by not shopping in store, I end up getting only what is on my list and end up paying FAR LESS than I would if I was wandering around.

This.

Whoever came up with this strategy has not traveled since the pandemic or is rooting for appletv. If I have to setup a netflix profile on my hotel room / airbnb before I can relax after several hours stuck in a plane watching netflix - suddenly finding *anything else to do* has less friction. Even trying any other streaming app seems less cumbersome.