Siri has access to a lot of sensitive stuff, Apple is not willing to let any random app to access the same level of data without safeguards, the EU disagrees and says it should let anyone do it.

Would you trust Meta or OpenAI... heck or even Google with the same level of unrestricted access to device data?

The current EU legislation favors increased competition over personal privacy, Apple is not willing to make that tradeoff.
I think it's a reasonable solution just not to release it until both can be addressed.

The problem with String theory is that it doesn't predict anything. It just sits there being pretty.

At least try to explain something, like Dark Matter, and make a prediction we can test experimentally!!
Otherwise it's just a very convoluted form of masturbation.

Hopefully, Microsoft can keep the price at least somewhat lower than the $4,699 asking price for Nvidia's similarly specced DGX Spark box.

The DGX SparkBox has a ConnectX-7 NIC @ 200 Gbps. That alone is north of 1K of the price. It should be possible to get it at around 3K with 128GB of RAM with just 10G ethernet

The typical definition goes something like this:

Consciousness is the state of being awake, aware of one's surroundings, and experiencing subjective sensations, thoughts, and feelings

Think about a thermostat, it's awake, aware of it surrounding temperature, it "feels" that the it is too hot, which is unsettling, and causes it to signal the AC motor to turn on and suddenly feels ok, no more tension.

Consciousness is either: supernatural an ill defined or describes a simple feedback loop with some internal state.

We need a better concept.

Before release, you add a phase of vulnerability discovery, to find as much as you can with the latest and greatest models and fix those before release.
It makes sense to defuse the threat before it becomes an issue, otherwise your attackers will do it for you and won't tell you what they find.

I mean, Leia was mostly AI in the latest ones.

I mean, 10PB is not easy to store.

The moment you start charging for access, it's no longer open in the traditional sense.

It may be free as in freedom, but you cannot exercise that freedom unless you pay up?

We'll end up with a bunch of Mozillas trying to maximize ~shareholder~ community value.

SaaS is not going away, some may be replaced by AIaaS. At least for relatively simple things, but most companies paying for SaaS are paying for the support that comes with it.

You can definitely vibe code a lot of crap, but once you get into regulated environments where liability is really high (GDPR, HIPPA, FedRamp, etc.) it's risky to trust that a probabilistic interpretation of a prompt is compliant.

I mean, the picture and sound quality at home movie watching has gotten so much better that dealing with all the strangers in the cinema and all that hassle makes no sense.

In fact most HDR movies are way better in a large, modern TV than on a cinema screen.

And even mid-range sound bars with subwoofers can approximate the audio experience very well, algorithmic audio does magic with Atmos data.

The structure is the easiest part of building a house (and also the easies to automate).

  All the other tiny little details take most of the time: electrical, plumbing, drywall, painting, flooring, etc.

All my smart TVs never seen the internet. They're completely offline, I just feed them video and audio via HDMI.

Software companies have been evaluating people again and again because a degree is meaningless.

That's why interviews are so grueling, you have CS master degree holders that know shit about software.

Really, I so rarely reboot, my daily drivers only reboot when an update requires it. I care more about wake from sleep time, which is usually under a second.

Reboot it's probably a few seconds mostly.

As a former Oracle employee, they have way too many seat warmers. They could probably function with 50% of their current payroll, assuming that they fire the right people, but that's a huge if.

30k is probably healthy if done competently.