I'm not so sure about that... I think Microsoft and Amazon are better positioned to benefit from cloud-based AI.

Google seem to be messing up in the say they are addressing AI Chat as a competitor to search. With keyword-based and "human-ranked" (pagerank) search they really had a near-monopoly, even owning the verb to "google" for something. Bing is OK, but never had any advantage over the default of Google, and there was no other real competition.

For some inexplicable reason Google seem to be abandoning traditional search - just getting worse and worse - rather than just augmenting with AI mode and AI overview, while not going all-in on the alternative of ad-supported AI Chat as the alternative.... Given the threat of AI chat eating search, where they had a near monopoly, they've chosen to shoot themselves in the foot and weaken search while competing poorly in AI chat where there is much more competition and they are far from market leader.

Though I'm not sure heavier fines or criminal charges is really going to fix this, it's too easy for executives to rationalize away any risks.

The real fix is more funding for researchers (university and government) so they have the resources to investigate these things on their own. We shouldn't have to rely on companies policing themselves.

I bet the majority of the users nowadays hadn't even been born back when we were enjoying our hot grits.

SpaceX needs Tesla's revenue to subsidize its AI efforts.

Tesla needs SpaceX for all the AI resources that were diverted from Tesla to SpaceX.

Elon Musk needs the merger in order to circumvent the performance goals in his compensation package.

I don't see any need to protect people from their own stupidity more then necessary. Credit ratings do serve that process, but anyone buying a 5 year corporate bond paying 15% when a 10 year treasury only yields 5% surely understands why the price is so low (hence yield so high).

Don't even need a ramp to fly either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Overdesigned.

You can easily go airborne in an ICE car too. Poland had this tech in 2020.

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/stat...

> The extreme downforce fan will likely be road legal

Perhaps, but basically useless at road legal speeds

If you have the money, it's hard to beat a Veyron/Chiron as a drivable supercar that you can throw around corners at high speed without a lot of skill.

The styling seems totally misconceived. If you want an expensive car to park in central London, then it better look expensive, and a $50K deposit car presumably isn't going to retain for the multi-million price tag also needed to impress.

This car is borrowing styling from the Cybertruck, which was designed to appeal to a totally different audience.

This is basically just a trillionaire having fun - nothing wrong with that. but might have been better received if he disassociated it from Tesla and just presented it as a hobby project.

Inability to compete with Chinese EVs (Teslas cost 2-3x more at every price point) has nothing to do with salaries.

A Tesla model 3 only has 10-15 hours of human labor in it, IOW $1000 - $1500 at $100/hr. This does not even begin to explain the price difference.

Right - this is the Teslabot "man dancing in a spandex bodysuit" stage of demo, except all we get is a video not even a real-life fake.

6 years after spandex-man it seems Teslabot still can't actually do anything autonomously.

Apparently not only did it take 7 humans, but it took 5 months, and the design of Anthroipic's Scion is an exact ripoff of a Meta source control system called Mononoke.

So, Anthopic's coding agents, even with a stolen (or should we say "distilled"?) specification of what to build, still needed help from 7 humans,. and still took 5 months...

Right - it's like you have explosive diarrhea, and rather than going to the doctor you just buy a bigger toilet.

Judging by some of the bugs in Claude Code, either there are/were (they are still hiring) no competent developers there, or they just have a religion of trying to have the AI fix the code, even when it is incapable of it.

The famous CC screen jitter bug had the most simple and obvious explanation you could imagine (they were clearing each screen area before they wrote to it), yet the bug persisted for months with users complaining about vocally!