Huawei have had dark factories and placing them on the sanctioned list of companies only spurred them to "get good" even more. Even before they came under fire they were already scaling back their workforce at the factories as they had already started to see the benefits of dark factories. What other dark factories other industries may have is hard to tell but this is an evolution of manufacturing technology.

I guess we'll see who is a part of the fake news industrial complex.

At this point, if I was running a data broker company, I'd be hoping that these companies don't pay because these hackers are doing their work for them, i.e. collecting data, albeit illegally. These data broker companies should just be siphoning all this leak data and going through it and aggregate into their system so they can make their existing system better.

I wonder which religion would win out when the code is written by DeepSeek?

Christian Science Monitor vs Scientology?

The question is do these companies want to invest to reinvent a wheel or just get to market as fast as possible to remain relevant in the market segment that is eroding away? The writing is already on the wall and the way how the CCP subsidies Chinese companies is much different than the way things are done in the west. You could in theory compare CCP to Amazon in that the most important thing is to deliver value to the customer so that they are happy customers to want to come back to do more sales. In doing so, while profits are important, if there are no customers, or in this case, happy customers (happy/content citizens) then there is no profit to extract value from.

What is the quickest way to get a product to market of something you don't already have but you desperately need? Since they can't steal it, at best is to just license it and make tweaks to it to satisfy whatever regulatory bodies that govern a particular region/nation and you make it work. The sooner you're to the market the more time you'll have to come up with something that is truly unique on the second go around. The first one doesn't have to be perfect but it has to not completely suck so bad that you're seen as a complete failure. As long as the product is functional it is a start.

If 2Pac and Biggie can settle their beef with pizza, perhaps we can grow up a bit and accept some AI music with some nice pizza slices.
#PizzaTrees #FTW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Putting trackers into shipping containers containing "high value targets" will potentially those lazy smugglers. The real serious ones probably have the entire vertical line mapped out and bribed out so that they can ensure their shipments are not tampered with.

There is no such thing as problem that money can't solve. You just don't have enough money.

In the case with these smugglers, there's always money and they solve their problems with money.

Just like the story with Frank Lucas.

It'll be interesting to see the video that Gamers Nexus will be releasing in a few days that may have some related content about this.

if you had access to a better hammer, either you learn to use it or get left behind.

Not surprised the FTC would side with businesses due to the fact an easy cancellation would mean easier means of losing revenue streams. It's like these businesses have adopted the same techniques of how gyms keep its memberships high due to their difficulty in cancellations. You know it's bad when there is a Friends episode about this topic.

I wonder who/what protects their platform? Another AI? People?

I mean they and many others already have their own stable coin. It's called a gift card.

I wonder if Huawei have any plans to open up Harmony in such a way that it can be used on other hardware platforms other than their own....

Yup yup!! I can't wait to hear what he says about this and get his take on this bill and whether or not if it has any teeth in its implementation.

I don't know all the -isms but it seems like when POTUS tells you where you can/cannot do business or how you can/cannot do business even though it is legal, that seems to me it is borderline controlling the means of production.

If consumers aren't spending more how can the government collect more taxes? The budget shortfall isn't just going to solve itself by eliminating costs but it also needs to collect more revenue. The only way to win against debt isn't save, save, save but it's to spend, spend, spend so the government can collect, collect, collect.