I suspect a lot of companies are using it as an excuse. It makes layoffs look like a "Good Thing" (R) to investors. But we also just saw Oracle is planning a big round of layoffs due to AI, not because AI is making things more efficient though. It's because they are trying to find ways to pay for their AI datacenter scale out. Which I guess is one tactic to get AI to make employees more efficient: Cut the employees because of soaring AI expenses and expect the remaining workers to do more work. Seems like solid thinking on leadership's part, right?

Apparently I can't use a less than symbol on here. Let's try that again

If ((AIActor.Tax + AIActor.Cost) LessThan (HumanActor.Salary + HumanActor.Residuals)) then Studio.Happy = True

Let me try to simply this for you: If ((AIActor.Tax + AIActor.Cost) (HumanActor.Salary + HumanActor.Residuals)) then Studio.Happy = True

I don't know, I can see a financial upside for the studios. The union fund payments would almost certainly be cheaper than an actor's salary + residuals. Plus it would be tacit permission from the union to let studios do this without getting into a fight with them. Which is why I can also see the union members NOT voting for it.

Luckily this is a powertoy so unlikely. Plus most of the powertoys are open source so easy to remove if they tried it.

I hate those. I'm a consultant and I'm in Azure and 365 portals for various companies all the time. I swear it's partially responsible for my high bloodpressure. And whoever at MS decided to push out that change the defaults everyone to collapsed navigation menus in Azure needs to be tied to a post and whipped.

The key here is the discovery of the protein they propose is involved. That could lead to a treatment. And if you read the summary, what you are talking about is one of the confounders they worked to control for. Obviously other studies are needed to confirm their findings but it's interesting.

You don't need crazy hardware to run local models. gpt-oss-20b will run on a 24GB Mac Mini. Qwen3 8B 8 bit MLX will run on a base model mini. For the agenic stuff a lot of people are using Moltbot for either of those would be fine.

What are you even talking about? They have official documentation on using Ollama, LMStudio, vLLM, and others not to mention OpenRouter. Plus if it talks to OpenAI, then it can talk to most local models since many of the runtimes use the OpenAI API spec. As for why the Mac Mini, a bone-stock mini will give you about 8GB of high speed RAM (leaving 8gb for the system) for around $550. 24GB model gets you at least 16GB to play with. You can run a lot of decent local models on either one.

This wasn't even novel back in 2020 when they launched. There were a bunch of apps that popped up during the pandemic to do this.

Well he was big into the BattleBot scene so.... murderbot?

The answer to your question is literally in the title.

That is the maximum sentence possible. He most likely will get a way lighter sentence.

Yep, this is why there are no building fires in Europe. Zero! And yet the US still uses wood.

No. They had a high-rise with a lot of bamboo scaffolding around it and very flammable foam covering windows go up.