"This is being done for the benefit of humanity."

You are an even worse liar than Musk or Altman, but we've all known that for a long time.

How exactly do they ban updates? If they publish an update for Canadian owners, nothing stops Americans from installing it.

"We'll be happy to sell AI services to folks in Kenya who don't want the datacenter there. Pony up."

Who is "we"? The same liars who scripted the first part of your absurd post?

"...upgrading the grid and capacity to support such a venture could provide economic benefits..."

It could just as easily impoverish the nation. as the "upgrades" could easily be made to serve only the venture while being paid for by the locals.

"Done right" is a matter of perspective. We know the perspective that matters, it isn't Kenya's.

Never, since SCOTUS declared the president immune from the constitution and all other law. The OP's question is a good one, the only thing that prevents the Trump administration from doing anything is competence / ability to do it.

You can't update firmware unless you can get firmware. That's what alligator Alcatraz is for, anyone who imagines they can provide firmware. Threats is how they do it, just like how they do everything else.

Fortunate, then, that Trump is immune from law. What's this "legal power" stuff? Does ICE have the "legal power" to murder US citizens in the streets?

I like how the discussion centers on what government organizations can do as if that's how the Trump executive branch works. Respect for the law has really sorted the tariffs out and stopped the war in Iran.

Which one of these is the Ayn Rand laissez-faire capitalism choice? #3, right? Certainly can't be #1 or #2. Funny how free markets get abandoned the moment nationalism is the priority.

"While were at it, the public till can get raided to inject cash into some American chip makers so they can design but not actually make any chips..."

So #3 is also the communism choice?

"...do fuck all about supply chain risk and the national security and sovereignty implications..."

What are those, other than current administration talking points? Racism against the Chinese sure is complicated.

"...pretend we did not just sell out our grandchildren at the same time."

Like you did in the last election?

"They charge me, per hour, as much as my attorney."

What a super relatable comment. But unsurprising.

"And I'll bet they're not carrying half-a-million in college debt from Columbia Law."

I'll bet your "attorney" isn't either. How can such a narcissist hire an attorney that hasn't paid off his school debt yet? Can't afford any more than plumber's pay?

Why blame any of that? Why not blame the real culprits? Or do you not like accountability?

https://apwu.org/the-usps-fair...

What did they do with it?

"The phone has received the little-known PTCRB certification, a first step toward being certified to work on major networks and be issued with IMEI numbers."

Why would anyone believe this? The Trump administration does certifications, why would any actual work be done for a fraud?

"I was always told that running random code that you don't know what it does is a bad idea."

And yet every user of computing does this continuously. Virtual no one knows what any of the code they run actually does.

"Normal code would require a thorough audit to integrate."

Says who? I would say very little is audited, especially with CICD which is specifically designed to NOT do that.

"The AI stuff is unauditable."

The problem with AI isn't the code, it's the weights.

"It sounds like Cisco is trying to alleviate these unknowns."

It does not, but yes it sounds insufficient of not entirely worthless.

"Think of Model Provenance Kit as a DNA test for AI models"

No, do not. AI models are entirely deterministic computer applications. This more anthropomorphizing nonsense.

"This may put organizations at risk of using models with unknown biases, vulnerabilities or manipulations and make it more difficult to resolve any incidents that arise from these risks."

Utterly false. There is nothing about knowing what the tool alleges to tell you that helps solve any problem and AI models are already opaque, making users inherently vulnerable in all the ways that are alleged here.

'Cisco has released an open-source tool "to trace the origins of AI models,"'

Provided that the AI models targeted are open source themselves.

More bullshit propaganda.

Cut the pay for the doers, redirect the pay to executive staff.