Of course, doing a large investment in health research is by itself a good thing. However, having just 1 person decide vast amounts of allocation of where our top experts spend their time ultimately means that those experts will spend less time on other items. Medical research expertise is a finite resource and letting a couple of rich people hoard it instead of deciding as a society where we want to invest in them ultimately is not efficient.

16GB RAM is $200, that really is just not that big of a deal in terms of a car price. I don't think they were going to put 128GB HBM compute cards in a lot of cars anyway.

Free from manipulation concerns.

Why, do they have a patent on it? Manipulating charts is like the bread and butter of the big record labels.

Sorry, Anthropic is admitting to a crime here? Do they think that just because they let an AI do it they are not responsible for it?

Any prosecutors looking along?

Hey imagine if we actually taxed those companies similarly to how everyone else is taxed, and they couldn't just spend the collective resources of society on their hobby project, which is automating everyone out of a job and concentrating all power on the planet.

This is not that gunning yet. That may also happen in response to the tariffs but would be far larger and far more comprehensive.
Basically when unfair trade barriers (like a tariff) hit, you can reciprocate with measures for a similar amount. Given that the US doesn't make much, that would likely have to hit tech companies. So far the EU has had remarkable restraint on that, but as more illegal tariffs are added by the US get added that could happen at any time. Then your theory will hold up.

But this is not that. This is just Google ignoring laws that were pretty clear and being told to comply. Fines are designed to speed up compliance so if they are too low and you need to go through courts to get coercive sanctions. Better to start with something credible from the start.

Yeah that's fair. US companies are more tech heavy so I guess make more sense for Slashdot. So I guess people would not have the ability to make the same comments the other way around. I doubt you would see them though. I think most commenters understand that Deutsche bank isn't going to leave the US over some fine of 1% of their income in the US. Yet many fully expect Apple or Google to do contempt of court, rack up criminal charges and lose their asset in the EU over some 1% fine of their EU income.

Are courts open today? If so, probably today. Most recent one to hit the news was Bosch, that last month got a 36M dollar fine.

In this size class, in the past few years you had large fines for Credit Suisse, SAP, Gunvor Group, Trafigura, Ericsson, UBS.

Of course the US likes to just fine entire continents and countries at once using illegal tariffs through executive orders. But that's not quite the same thing as no court is involved there.

What is it with the legal fan-fiction about EU here in Slashdot where people think European laws are optionals. When US fines an EU company you never see these remarks.

Ali has subsidiaries in Europe, billions in revenue, data centers. How do you exactly see that play out that they decide not to pay a fine? They will just decide to give up on billions to save millions? And then nobody that works for Ali can enter Europe again? Is that your legal strategy?

Termination would be a best case scenario. Potentially they could sue you and win because ToS is basically that you have to pay whatever they tell you to.

The problem cuts both ways for these sties, the people wanting the job done use LLM's, and many people doing the job also use LLM's and thus are effectively scamming the client if they are looking for human input.

So let me guess, when the US fines an EU company for breaking the law that is all fair, but when EU fines a US company for breaking a law you are all in tears over what a victim you are in a comment like that? If Google doesn't like the laws in Sweden they are free to leave the EU. I guess in the US if they don't like the laws they just buy some new laws, but it doesn't quite work like that in Europe.

Generally speaking Adyen rates are not expensive per transaction at all. Just you need a certain scale to make Adyen feasible, they basically only want to work with large parties.

These large companies are each hiring tens or hundreds of thousands of people in India and similar places and not hiring in the US right now.

They are not outsourcing, these orgs are hiring themselves directly for the company in these countries. These are huge, fully fledged offices owned by these companies. They are not working remotely. These workers are expected on-site 5 or more days a week and are treated essentially like garbage, just like the employers like it.

This has nothing to do with remote work. These orgs essentially only have grandfathered in highly senior people working remotely. Almost nobody is letting the graduates or foreign workers remote in.

Honestly that integrated gemini in android studio is not that good. But if you point antigravity to that directory it would implement what you described just fine. Basically all of these AI coding tools could do this for well over a year.