I would assume, that the fines are on top of all damage compensation these crooks will have to pay. I am also a bit unsure, whether the crooks will have the funds to both reimburse their victims and pay the fines, especially now, when they rightfully face decades of FPMITA prison. Not sure, whether raising the fines would have any effect on the actual outcome.

I am fully aware, that very few years from now we'll be laughing at the models we use today, just as we laugh at the hallucinating mess we admired so much two years ago. GPUs will improve, CPU memory bandwidth will go way up, we'll have Raspberry Pi like systems which can do quality inference. I look forward to using each and every one of them.

However: some people want to run lobsters today, and they are mostly left out to dry for now. These folks paid a few dozen dollars per month to perform mundane tasks like creating optimized grocery shopping lists or scheduling appointments, and now their operators are about to discover the true cost of these toys. Few of these operators can afford the quoted "US$ 1000-5000 daily".

Qwen 3.5 is light years ahead of llama 3 and deepseek, but no comparison to Claude Opus 4.6. Sorry. Plus: the full 35B model requires either a massive GPU (in the multi thousand $ range), or at least a lot of RAM (which is currently a bit pricey). Either way: I have the strong impression, that OpenClaw will lose quite a few users over this.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but qwen is no match for Anthropic's premium models. I've used both for coding relatively easy stuff, and qwen 3.5 puts lots of bugs even into three page shell scripts, while Claude's code can often be taken as is.

Why does this matter a lot? The biggest threat against lobsters is "prompt injection", and only top of the line LLMs are moderately resistant to it. Running an OpenClaw install based on an entry level LLM can be very risky once you give it access to passwords or personal data.

Anthropic evidently knows this, that's why they see little risk when they massively jack up their prices. Those dropping out now were never the type of people who would ever throw significant money at the effort.

Everyone is gonna suffer when the merry go round stops

The ROI is at the nation-state level. The ones who benefit are the rich and powerful in control right now. The reason it is being gatekept is to give the elite the power now that will be harder to wrestle from later.

We all remember, how openclaw agents tend to take names with a crustacean reference, like MJ Rathbun (named after zoologist) taking aim at Scott Shambaugh.

And now a dude called "Krebs" (German word for Cancer) shows up in the scene ...

PS: to the humor impaired: I know who Brian Krebs is ;-)

Spectre offers 55 and 77 inch screens that are dumb panels but have all the bells and whistles of newer panels (hdr, interpolation, etc). The 55in was $200 when I got it, the 77in was stupid dumb, like $450

Got this message for months and could not figure out what it was. Ended up fully power cycling an LG tv and the suspicious traffic went away. Child launched an app and the traffic came back. LG allows backgrounding apps but they get evicted quite easily due to limited resources. Well the app was a 4MB app that used so little resources it never got evicted. Now I see this post and it just furthers the point, do not connect devices to your network you do not trust. In my case I thought I was safe because it was on its own locked down VLAN, but nope. Now they are all going through proxies

You may conflate Russia's block of Telegram service and Starlink's sudden disconnection of Russian users. I would suggest, that the latter rather than the former was the main reason for the success of Ukraine's counter attack.

"Anonymous source(s) reportedâ¦" is how they legally get away with lying. They all do it. Anyone still relying on mass media is fooling themselves. Best to watch the people making the claims say it directly from their mouths. And not snippets or sound bites, the entirety of their speeches, interviews, and statements.

I saw an article talking about how Americans are surprised they are not able to claim the new tax deductions on their recent car purchase because they didnâ(TM)t read the fine print of the big beautiful bill. They simply listened to the talking points and said "bae, if we buy a car we get $10k back" or "yeah all my tips are tax free!!". But if they had read the bill they would have understood the shortcomings. CNN is not going to tell you that. Fox News isnâ(TM)t going to tell you that. Best to go to the source. New media was saying this but even then it's just snippets and likely goes too far the other way.

Gotta go to the source, those that don't will be doomed.

They were not flush, they had a very deep recess for your fingers to grasp the handle which allowed for turbulent air to form

This is what an LLM would want us to believe. Youâ(TM)re not fooling anyone, bot

Does it matter if it's actually conscious? When staring at another person, you have no REAL ideal if that other person is "real" other than how they act, talk and behave. However, if an high-end LLM can "mimic" those things, does it matter if that other person is real or not? their impact on you (positive or negative) would be the same either way. The higher-end LLM's are at that level currently, although speech recognition and text to speech is lagging. People are too used to the "free" ones and think all LLM's are dumb... Honestly, it only matters if you're religious and believe in a soul at that point. Otherwise, why would it matter?

I was in the epicenter of Silicon Valley right when the dotcom bubble started inflating unreasonably. Looking at the level of douche baggery drawing millions from clueless but enthusiastic investors was breath taking. Yes, PEPE is trash, PEPE2 (whatever this is) is likely even worse trash, but neither are worse than some of the things I saw back then, and neither deserved their crazy valuations.

PEPE and these pathetic meme coins were by far not the only tokens created in this time frame: many tokens were created to finance and support otherwise quite reasonable projects, many of which floundered nonetheless (which is typical for startups and does not necessarily imply fraud. BTDT.).