Now pay up or come up with another term.

Make a lot of noise over here so that over there you can get all sorts of intelligence.

Clearly, just as with rational human men, AI men aren't interested in snooty Washington Post reporters who in all likelihood are batshit crazy.

Who gets laid off doesn't come from Washington. That's a middle management decision. They are simply given a directive to reduce their headcount by a certain number or percentage. It's the middle managers who hand out the proverbial pink slips. Given that, clearly they had the choice to make. If they were rational people, then the decision hinged on which research would be the most beneficial. That may or may not be the case in this instance. On the surface, it sounds promising but so does a lot of other research. We don't know the details only the dramatic headline. However, more often than not, middle managers are not rational. They often keep people based on seniority rather than effectiveness or common ideology rather than merit or even whether or not an existing brand group is favored over new business concepts.

Qualcomm got pissed when Apple realized that they were getting screwed on licensing and now Qualcomm gets pissed when they can't use Arm's stuff?

Owning Adobe Creative Suite (or should I say 'renting', but I digress) doesn't make you an graphic artist, a photographer, or a videographer. It just makes mundane tasks easier. AI coding tools doesn't make you a software architect either. It just saves you hours of googling even when it gives you code that doesn't work.

Years ago, I was driving from Arizona to California and my speedometer broke. I asked Siri, "How fast am I going?" Was it able to pull data from the GPS in the phone to tell me that? Nope. Did it say "I don't know."? Nope. It actually said, "I've been wondering that for a while." Snarky bitch.

True story: when my father was first starting out as a physician, he had a meeting with the head of Chemical Bank in New York. He said to my father "You know why rich people are rich? Because they watch the pennies."

Aside from the bullshit line that the poor card holders are subsidizing the rich ones, smart wealthy people (not the trust fund babies), know every detail about their finances. Our society has become hopelessly addicted to the subscription business model. There are also staggeringly bad messages being sent such as the insane ad for Poshmark where the airhead says "That's going towards rent, that's going towards girls night, and that's going to a new bag." NO, YOU MORON! ALL OF IT GOES TO RENT!!! What the hell is the matter with you?

The jokes just write themselves. Oh, wait, maybe that's an AI writing the jokes.

Insert obligatory Australian toilet joke.

Seriously? It's such a major problem that these people should be willing to work for free.

Who gives a Rust f*ck? (see what I did there?) Nobody cares what browser they use. This is just a pretext to sue so they can milk the two companies for money.

And asked this question 20 years ago. You'd still have the same answer. Good luck getting a different idea green-lit in Hollywood. The business model is broken. You don't see epic productions with a big scope and a large cast much anymore because it's too expensive to produce in the first place and then everybody and their mother wants residuals. It's almost as though they have to produce mediocre sequels to cover the cost of the original. Plus, Hollywood is no longer the taste-maker. People are sick of fringe ideology disguised as "important" films being crammed down their throats. To quote Van Ling "I could eat raw film stock and sh*t a better movie."

Taking a cue from the author, maybe they don't want to repeat the MobileMe fiasco so they are spending more time to make it work well. The fact is that AI, for all its hype, is still in its infancy. Apple waits until the dust settles on paradigm-shifting technology. They weren't the first GUI operating system in the world. They weren't the first MP3 player on the market but nobody remembers anything but the iPod. They weren't the first so-called smartphone on the market but people either have an iPhone or they have a arguable facsimile of one. AI is cool but all you really see are a few interesting use-cases that don't generalize well. Apple needs to make it useful and seamless.

Having once spent two days scouring the USPTO website for patents covering autonomous robots, I can tell you that iRobot has a shit ton of them. Patents only help you when everyone plays by the same set of rules. China doesn't give a shit about western rules. (It's part of the reason that Musk doesn't bother) They spent too much capital on trying to build a legal moat when they should have been trying to invent new stuff.