4.5 was a panic reaction to Deepseek R1 being released (and truly open source) and being a stone's throw away from OpenAI's best efforts. I don't think anyone took 4.5 seriously. They just had to release something because they've been promising GPT-5 for... two years now? GPT5 was probably supposed to be a hyper polished reasoning model, but the rest of the planet caught up with them over the last 90 days or so. 4.5 was an attempt at pretending there was a moat still to be had. But investor confidence has been crushed at this point I don't know how they're going to come back from R1.

laptop users. One cable from the display to the laptop, with the display powering the laptop. probably also for most desktops, removing the need for a dedicated power supply in the desktop except for gaming PCs with dedicated GPUs
 
Apple's new super mega ultra computer only uses 200w, it will run off most high end monitors that support 240w out. Needing a dedicated power cable for your PC is going to look really silly in a couple of years as power demands continue to shrink. I can't imagine USB-C will ever need to support more than 240w in consumer circles.

I don't need any of the features of Windows 11 that aren't already in Windows 10. When my games stop working, I'll upgrade, not a second earlier. Security features don't matter much when all it's used for are video games and Chrome, not downloading random b.s. off the internet, and you're sitting behind a firewall/router.

Unfortunately garbage at scale is all that's needed in most cases

LinkedIn is really, really agressive about using their app. Sorry guys I have no interest in downloading any "apps". I think the only apps I have installed that didn't come with my phone are the family messaging app we use, one of the major AI chat things, and my local public transit fare app thing. If I need your service I'll logon to your website. In incognito mode.

Most developers just need to crank out tickets, if efficiency becomes a problem they'll solve those problems from worst to least worst; almost certainly the code AI writes won't be worse than the database concurrency problem or whatever major show stopper they're trying to fix this week. Done > inefficient

Very little fact checking gets done these days. Journalism used to be a solidly middle class job but now it's something people do to pay the rent between jobs. The number of people actually doing investigative reporting as a career is vanishingly small. Trusting your news article to be correct and fact checked is not a reality anymore outside of a handful of places like wsj and nyt

China already has AI tech equal to the US and Europe, you can't put that genie back in the bottle. Seems like a waste of time and effort. Like banning the sale of internal combustion engines to keep china from developing cars at this point.

I've been seeing ai summaries and ai suggested comments on social media for over a year already

Our area is staffed by hipster snowflakes, they won't eat if there's not at least 12 variants and it's got aoili derived dipping sauce and ipa beer.

sometime prepandemic, california passed a law requiring that cash be a mandatory form of payment. a lot of food trucks were card only because even with the cc fees they made more money because they could add a third cook and effectively get rid of the cashier. they could serve 50% more customers in the lunch rush. if your line is too long, customers just keep walking by

I didn't click through past the headline. It's a dead product so probably not worth investigating further

Some kind of VR goggle partnership with meta that was announced a year ago, apparently

*probably trip over it

IANAL but I think doing something as small as applying a canned filter (i.e. "sunset" or "vintage b&w") probably meet the standard if human input, or adding meme text overlay. The standard exists and isn't very high, but if you didn't know it was there you'd probably to over it getting it posted online.