Heat Rays - >Tanning Lotion -> automatic rifle frying

Gartner predicts that cost pressure and a lack of a differentiating business model will force over 80% of neocloud [AI-specialized infrastructure] providers to cease independent operations.

Does this mean the State takes over?

[exploding cement truck guy explains that yes, you can polish a turd but why would you?]

[Will Smith going "Hmm"]

Sony started outsourcing their manufacture to China years ago. They're on the path of becoming just another marketing brand that gets slapped onto the same $200 kit, only with a 3x markup.

Sony and TCL Sign Definitive Agreements for Strategic Partnership in the Home Entertainment Field
March 31, 2026

Yeah, have the big AI companies cleaned their raw data sources for newer models or are they still using original scrapes of teh internets, just putting guardrails and instructions in place to discount specific data?

La MIGA!

I ordered my anvil from Amazon.

sad it doesn't say ACME.

Who knew TPMS reports would evolve into snitches?!!

I have that for my Mahir van in Night City.

Bob Dobbs returns to the chat.

Broccoli Hair is LIFE!

Same as it ever was.

Apple's taking a slow lean into AI and at it's core, Apple has always been a computing appliance company.

Easy to see Apple offering a home AI Mac Mini with home Siri support ("All your stay inside your house. Really. Trust us!"), along with easy to impliment IoT applicances.

This is just an evolution of Jobs' vision from the early '80s.

Raccons are the Norte America 'B-Team'.

Squirrels are the 'C-Team'.

I wonder what the other continents have as B-Teams?