On a scale of 1-10 what's your confidence level the following countries don't have this capability today? USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, France, German, Australia y? The US is allied with Israel. If Israel has capability that would imply to me our other allies do, as do we.

Israel and Iran both shut down their internet during the ongoing conflict for multiple days. It's standard operating procedure to flip the "internet kill switch" as soon as a foreign bomb explodes on your soil. In a major city like Tehran, Tel Aviv, NYC, SF, London etc where you have 10,000+ people per square mile, you could easily have 20-30,000 people on a network like this with moderately low latency during a bombing situation.
 
But yeah if you live in the Houston suburbs where each house sits on a half acre of land and houses are 150' apart, ti would be useless, you're right. Very few people outside of the US actually live like that, though. So yeah it's useful for about 55% of the global population.
 
I dunno how you cache and forward messages for more than maybe a thousand people or so, encrypted data by definition doesn't compress hardly at all, that app might use a gb or more of storage if you're at the edge of two networks.

Toyota calls them "LBMs", or large behavior model. Same general concept but with different training data https://pressroom.toyota.com/t...

Imagining China is only using LLM for chat bots is pretty limited imagination; toyota has already (2+ years ago now) demonstrated LLM is extremely useful for training robots to walk more naturally, and learn normal tasks like folding clothes and flipping burgers in hours rather than months or years.

I guess you were born after 1990 or so. There was still a guy with a cart delivering inter-office memos when I did "take your kid to work day" at boeing in 1991 or so. Personal computers effectively eliminated the secretary by 1995 as executives learned to type messages themselves. Spreadsheets changed accounting and forecasting forever; "computer" used to be a job. "IT was supposed to usher in this great new world of productivity and it never manifested." What the heck are you talking about buddy? The office landscape of today looks nothing like the office of 1970. Microsoft Office replaced the cost center(s) of the company, a two very average analysts can do in a week what a team of 30 used to do in a month. Instead of forecasting two years out at coarse resolution you can forecast out 10 years highly granularly. Change one variable out of curiosity, and do it again instantly. Before you'd have a series of meetings to decide on the one projection you'd do, and then the whole team would work on that for an entire month to produce the single result.

If you RTFA it says amazon has as many robots as human workers. Amazon is the 2nd largest employer in the US; that number may shrink as robot use increases

I pay $20/mo for chat access to an llm and $20/mo for a private search engine. $40/mo to escape the googleverse is well worth the price in my opinion.

Also agree. It's rare i need to boot into Windows for a game particularly for indie stuff

Good reason to switch to linux. I only boot in to windows to play games these days.

Free tier is limited to ~10-20 queries per day of the low end models, whereas $20 tier is virtually unlimited for the "dumbest" models , and moderate access to reasoning models, while $200 tier gives you access to enhanced reasoning models that can think for multiple minutes at a time

That tracks, because I'm currently restoring a 1948 Chrysler straight 8 engine (really that flathead design like what packard was famous for) on a 1948 rolls royce chassis.

I seriously doubt your claim of free speech with a chatbot will hold up in court.

They themselves proved you can't tell a chatbot to not be a therapist. You're not supposed to cut your hand off, there's no regulation telling people to not cut their hand off. You can't create an endless set of rules to tell you what you're not allowed to use free LLMs for. Anyone can train any number of LLM using free open source data sets with any restrictions (or no restrictions) it costs less than $1000 to train a basic 7b model with a credit card at any cloud provider. Next they're going to have signs on gas pumps instructing people not to douse themselves in gasoline and set themselves on fire.

I recall there was "premium" cable and that was HBO, Showtime, Cinemax and probably a handful of has-beens and regional ones that got bought out. I recall regular cable being ~$32/mo and with premium cable (HBO) it jumped up to ~$75 but they only had a few shows and movies would rotate, not too different from how it is now except it's streaming over the internet.

This was largely the purpose of gmail IIRC. Humans can't read your email, but there's almost no value in allowing them access, whereas letting computers build a customer profile to sell ads to you, is invaluable.