It's not really a marketplace. In the future, we will own NOTHING. That's what the corporations want: for us to rent our entire lives from them.

that's why the cops break the law every goddamned day

AI CEOs have a history of being egocentric, lying assholes, but also we don't trust them to allow us to have clean air to breath, clean water to drink, and electricity to run our heat and A/C in the winter. They've prioritized their potential for earning wealth at the expense of every other point of contact. He's lucky we don't start burning down data centers. All these lies about the jobs they'll create and the wondrous things they'll do are a mirage. Having worked in data centers for 20+ years it's just equipment and the sales guy and the security guy and the occasional cleaning staff.

At what point will will call this out for what it is: massive stock market manipulation by promising to sell and buy in the future with money Open AI does not have today? NVidia is playing a dangerous game here, one which threatens the US power grid and our drinking water, and our lives, by simple ugly greed.

It is 12000 days into September, 1993: Usenet is long since an artifact in the memory of greybeards; the internet belongs to the monkey cage. Yet on Slashdot, we still get physics puns. Here, the golden age lives on.

the father accustoms himself to become like his child and fears his sons, while the son likens himself to his father, and feels neither shame nor fear in front of his parents, so he may be free ; the metic [563a] becomes the equal of a citizen and the citizen of a metic, and similarly with the foreigner.
It indeed so happens, he said.
To these, said I, such trifles do add up: the teacher, in such a case, fears his pupils and fawns upon them, while pupils have in low esteem their teachers as well as their overseers; and, overall, the young copy the elders and contend hotly with them in words and in deeds, while the elders, lowering themselves to the level of the young, sate themselves with pleasantries [563b] and wit, mimicking the young in order not to look unpleasant and despotic.

- Plato's "The Republic" (ca 375 BCE)

well, actually...

Absolutely stupid policy. My former employer bought Fanuc robots from Japan and they were the best-of-breed. If you want to support small American businesses, give them access to the best-of-breed technology. If Chinese produces more advanced robots, then American businesses should be allowed to implement them. If American robotics companies are to succeed, they'll need to be more innovative.

https://newsroom.roku.com/news...

Just like vulture capitalists: buy a company, extrude the value, sell it for parts.

these mergers should not happen at any time.

It's not 1999 and no normal computers ship with integrated CD-ROM drives anymore. So why is it a big deal for the Playstation user base? Most games require gigabytes of DLC anyways. And having a CD doesn't mean that they won't simply shut down the server that's hosting your game.

that's what's missing from their business offerings

Let's have the leading developers of AI control the gateways to AI legislation as a competitive advantage against their corporate foes.

https://openai.com/supply/co-l...

wait, Billionaires *do* have too much money