The clock, to make sure they don't run out of time before investors realise they're just seeing who can built the biggest bonfire of dollar bills.

It's a bit like the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s when they only had access to domestically-made equipment. Only back then we did it to them as a Cold War act of aggression, and now the US is voluntarily doing it to itself. Quite bizarre.

Nononono, you've understood it wrong, he's going to wave a chainsaw around on a stage in Argentina.

Aren't the required qualifications for being an influencer either being a THOT if female or neo-nazi misogynist if male? What else is required beyond that?

It had the guardrails disabled. That's sort of like pulling all the control rods out of a reactor and waiting expectantly to see what happens.

Depends on the country you're in. Cheques haven't existed here for decades, but OTOH when you do a bank transfer it asks you to verify the account holder, so it'll verify the account number against the name "Wildcat Contractors Inc." vs "J.Random Phisher LLC".

This is exactly what happens when you sanction something that anyone with a few billion dollars lying around can build. No sanctions, you keep them dependent on you and paying you for it. Sanctions, they build their own facilities and do it themselves. And then after that's done they undercut you and flood the market and you go out of business. Way to go, USG!

The EU hasn't been GOP-Republican since early May 1945.

Is Fecebook's verified sign a blue checkmark?

And the headline would be more accurate by saying "Toddler has tantrum, throws toys out of cot".

Yes they can. A court orders you to provide the password, you refuse, you're now in contempt of court and can be detained indefinitely under arbitrarily bad prison conditions until you decide to not be in contempt of court any more.

My first reaction is that they're worried about the open Chinese models and figure that half-price is still better than nothing at all.

Yup. My prediction: The antitrust trial will be theatre by regulators who stopped regulating years ago, the merger will go ahead as planned, and then ParaSkyWarner will sue the states to recover their $7m/day ticking fees.

Is this one of those high school physics differential equation problems where you have US taxpayer money flowing into the tank at one end and AI-slop spending flowing out at the other and you have to calculate when the tank will be empty?

The difference is that Ukraine has beaten the worlds second^H^H^Hthird^H^H^Hfourth^H^H^Hsomewhere-in-the-top-ten military with relatively minimal resources. When the US tries to do drones it'll take 15 years of development, be built by Northrop Grumman with production spread across at least 40 states, cost $7m per drone, and require another 15 years of debugging to get it working properly.