Or maybe they're historically literate enough to know that during one of America's most prosperous periods (the 1950s) the tax rate on people earning over $200,000 ($2 million today) was 91%. Because of course the best way to get wealthy people to *actually* invest in the economy (and not just play paper financial investment games) is to threaten to take their money away.

The military is right.

The military is supposed to protect citizens, not spy on them. Even if you think the spying is fine, that's not the military's job. The fact that this is a sticking point at all is a huge red flag and immediately tells you they should not have unfettered access to Claude. The bank should ask you for your pin code, but if the janitor at the bank asks, you know something is wrong.

Apple calculated that Patreon wouldn't do this before they started making threats. What's interesting is why Apple's doing this now.. clearly they don't expect significant growth this year, so they're looking for people they can squeeze to juice the fall numbers. That says a lot about what their projections are for the fall iPhone lineup and the rumored foldable phone. They probably still feel the sting of projecting the Vision Pro would be a hit and then it failing in the market.

The summary makes this sound shady, but honestly this sounds like some deal to license Unreal for some bullshit virtual navigation ML model training for use in robots, plus Epic buying Google Cloud services for the backend services of Fortnite. These companies are too big not to work together and it would do them more harm not too. Like when Apple revoked Epic's developer account and then Apple had to go out and tell 3rd parties to use Unity to make fluid 120 fps games for the Vision Pro. Oops.

45,000 sounds high. Let's not be sloppy.. Based on everything we know and that's been reported-- that Apple cancelled a true AVP successor and is moving ahead with glasses over the AVP, that they sold 300,000 units at launch (at best), that the division the AVP reports under (Wearables) had a *decline* in revenue after it launched, etc. etc. it's pretty clear it's a dead end product.

Because Biden's not president anymore, the post is nothing but a dig and this is an article about something done by Trump's administration. The post is the most obvious flamebait imaginable, and it seems weird that someone would even pretend that there's some fairness issue marking it as such.

It's like the guy claiming to be Napoleon and you agreeing with him (a bad, bad idea)

Isn't that literally what maga is doing with Trump right now?

Apple's working hard with stories like this to reverse the perception that they're behind in the AI race.. so now every ML project they have is an AI project..? And yet my iPhone still somehow screws up summarizing 3 line txt messages into 2 lines?

The drugs that give people increased heart rate, mood changes, anxiety, trouble sleeping, dry mouth, stomach pain, nausea, loss of appetite, bladder pain, and hallucinations may also offer some slight benefits for depressed people.

It's not AI by itself⦠The sign that something is broken at Apple is that they heavily pursued two prominent misfires (the Apple Car and Vision Pro), while completely missing AI. Now they are years behind on the next big platform, and it's not a problem that can be easily solved with money because they didn't build the infrastructure or capture the talent.

The point where they are stuck is when the industry standardizes on one or two AI platforms and they don't belong to Apple. At that point Apple is no longer a rent-seeking gatekeeper, and they become just another tenant.

It's great that they're letting their AI people publish papers (although the last one I saw literally came from interns), but Apple is clearly a couple years behind the state of the art here, and "weirdly interesting" is not how you catch up. Xcode 26 (which is unreleased) is functionally not up to what other companies had out last fall, and by the time it's out in Sept, the situation will be even worse. At this point Apple should get over their "not invented here" syndrome and just license Claude.

Just remember that your "team" is just like a sports team. Their wins are not because of you, and youâ(TM)re not getting a trophy in your house. In fact, your life is probably going to get worse because your "team" openly doesn't care about what happens to you.

"They" is a small group of opportunists using the chaos Trump is causing to smash and grab stuff. Of course it's peanuts compared to the billionaires who were let into the government through the back door and are also now smashing and grabbing stuff, but iPhones are more relatable I guess.

It's pretty easy to spot who gets their news from "alternative sources" (ie. YouTube) because they always think the fringe represents the mainstream.