China is a communist country. That's a whole other level of government involvement in the economy and specific companies such as Alibaba than you'll find anywhere in the US.

Any other software company facing a similar order would have immediately sent a lawyer to court to file an injunction to block the order. The fact that Anthropic immediately rolled over tells us that on some level, they wanted this government action. They literally didn't object to it.

WTF are you talking about? Seattle is doing so much business that our taxes fund the rest of the state, including eastern Washington. You can talk when you start paying for your own infrastructure. Until then, politely STFU about Seattle business.

If a US company is actually based in Ireland, then it's not a US company. That's an Irish company.

Some US companies have offices in Ireland. That's to take advantage of Irish tax policy. Their headquarters are still in the US. The decisions of the company are still made in the US. They are based in the US. Those are US companies.

Okay then, that was always allowed.

EU regulators were perfectly capable of blocking any US purchase of EU companies at any time. They were perfectly happy taking US money all this time. It's ridiculous to now complain about all that money the EU earned.

Still as a American, I shrug. Europe should have been allowing, recommending, and actively promoting the creation of their own software their entire time. I think it's great that Europe is finally deciding to truly compete in technology.

The whole thing reminds me of Jerry walking out of the daycare in Rick and Morty. Yes, that was always allowed.

Europe always had the capability and opportunity to create European alternatives to US technology. There was never anything stopping them from going that route at any time. In fact, I welcome this work as an American. As a consumer of technology, I'd love to see some alternatives to the US technologies I currently use. Why Europe is approaching this as some flex on the US seems a bit ridiculous to me. This was always allowed.

Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer following the release of a monthly employment report which he claimed without evidence was "rigged" and manipulated to make Republicans look bad. You can bet those statistics truly are rigged now. That was the last time I trusted the employment statistics.

The same thing is occurring in YouTube too. Someone posts a video with a clickbait title. It's an AI voice reading an AI script showing video that's only tangentially related to the script. Overall, the video isn't outright bad. But, it's not particularly good either. They're just poor quality. They all just seem to ramble on for a pre-determined amount of time and then stop.

The problem is that the shear number of these videos and channels is unreal. Someone's automated the creation of these channels and videos. This someone is pumping out these videos faster than you can block whole channels.

Further, it's impossible to tell which channel has human-generated content and which is all-AI. YouTube doesn't help at all since Google is promoting the usage of AI. So, the service is getting flooded with poor-quality AI content. As a YouTube user, you either deal with this AI enshittification or you stop using YouTube.

A lot of the audio production in individual videos is really bad. This isn't anything to do with YouTube per se, not their compression algorithms or other features. A lot of YouTubers have absolutely no concept of microphone placement, of using audio compression, of reducing background noise. All of which are things which will drastically affect audio quality and the ability of a speech-to-text model to create subtitles.

It would be nice if YouTube would normalize all the uploaded videos to one set standard. Note I'm not suggesting that they compress the videos as that might change the intended presentation of professional audio productions. I just mean peak-finding normalization which could be implemented losslessly and without breaking existing video links.

Having said that, when I look at my own channel - and I am not claiming to have great audio; I have a host which would destroy a lavalier microphone in mere seconds. YouTube's subtitling is really good. It automatically switches between English and French and Hebrew, and even with a fair bit of background noise (welding, grinding, cooking, crowd noise, music) it generally gets the text correct. So I don't know what the original complaint is, except that it's not perfect. Well, guess what, neither is human hearing. How about that famous Jimi Hendrix line, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

Amazon lost 6.3 million orders because of the use of AI coding tools.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

Iranian and Venezuelan oil was on the market before the conflicts started by Trump. We still had $5/gallon gas back then due to Trump's shitty economic policies.

I've driven EVs since 2016. I've only plugged my car into the wall with no special charger. I plug in when I get home. My car completely charges overnight. When I leave in the morning, it's completely charged. My office is only about 10 miles away. So, I never use a full charge during the day driving to work.

It's clear you've never owned an EV and simply want to demonize a technology it's obvious you know little about.