Well, AI relies on a lot of matrix algebraic computation; which is what DSP and GPU chips are generally optimized to do.Google's Tensor AI accelerator chips are basically made to do lots of parallel matrix integer and floating point algebra.

Really? The wiki says it's most recent 2023 version has "up to 2048-core Nvidia Ampere architecture GPU with 64 Tensor cores" and supports 4-64GB ram. That sounds pretty AI to me.

Is it cutting edge? No. But it sure seems to be more than just a graphics chip for mobile applications.

Wasn't there an avalanche of garbage in the film Idiocracy?

IIRC, Star Trek TNG also had CGI with live action shot on film, same as B5 did.

Best quote ever.

Totally. This is the kind of "Bug found in QC/QA test version of software" headline you'd get from www.totallyexpectedtohappen.com.

WTF Slashdot? I'm all for raging against Microsoft's corporate hegemony cesspool but this is just fucking stupid.

I don't think it's socialism. More like fascist graft.

Check the fine print because I'm sure the official owner of the 10% will also be listed as "President Donal J. Trump" rather than "US Government".

Yes, yes , the critics will wank on about it being Google, or imperfect somewhere, or just like Windows. But are you really going to claim it's worse than the current solution of "nothing at all" in the IoT space?

Not sure how selling Chrome will weaken Google's dominance of web search. All the "dominance" in Google's position is held in the back-end servers, algorithms, massive data sets, etc.

It might impact Googles dominance in web advertising though, since they can probably squeeze more revenue out of people using Chrome than another browser.

With Trump weaponizing the Federal government, effectively holding citizens and companies hostage to his whims until they handover the requisite "loyalty payment", I would have thought the US was making great progress in the development of "ransomware".

At this point I'm waiting for Trump to recreate the Blackmail Show from Monty Python but in real life. I mean he does kinda do it now with his tariff policy.

Your claim that Canada might piss off Americans has weight only if we assume America matters. It doesn't; not any more.

Trump says America doesn't need Canada, but it's the other way around. It's the rest of the world that doesn't need America. The faster the global village can kick the US to the curb the better off it'll be.

I understand the value proposition you are making, but just how exactly are the great unwashed masses supposed to:

You offering to pay the hefty licensing fee for everyone?

Careful George. If you're going to validate history going back that far, you are bound to run afoul of the very woke activists you inspired when you handed Lucas Arts over to Kathleen Kennedy.

Let us not forget that these are the same people who are also responsible for choosing the leader of the free world every 4 years. Despite there being multiple agreements where the US committed (and re-committed) itself to be the western world's leader in exchange for all the economic goodies and benefits, I'm surprised it lasted this long.

I just hope the rest of the free world will finally appreciate the size and scope of the knife Trump just stabbed in their backs and finally kick the US to the curb.

It's also abundantly clear that Americans keep voting in Trump. Get back to me after the next presidential election cycle and maybe we can talk. In the mean time, you'll pardon me if I take your statement for what it's genuinely worth; absolutely nothing.