Morons with a capital M. As I've heard it direct from big tech company employees there are perfectly established ways to skirt trade secret laws, you sit there and ask the employees in question "how we might go about accomplishing" X thing that their previous employer did, and in a roundabout way they tell you what direction to take, and pretty soon your to the same place and that's it, you're free and clear. On the other hand directly asking "share secret project", "bring prototypes", and such directly seems to contradict all established trade secret law I know about.

Which is to say: Apple seems to have a fantastically clear and straightforward case and are 100% going to win an enormous settlement. OpenAI has to be the company with highest liabilities, maybe in all of history. Like holy fuck are they in the deepest hole I've seen since The South Seas Trading Company, the world first stock scam that was so big it almost bankrupted England. I can't wait for the podcasts and books and movie(s?, probably) all about the collapse. It'll be so much fun.

to keep the bubble rising. Next we'll have mandatory AI model usage. Have you fulfilled your quota citizen?

This is just PR to appeal directly to the orange moron slowly wasting away in the Oval Office. Designing wireless chips is a notoriously difficult and time consuming process, and Broadcom is one of the only chip design partners in the entire world even qualified to do so. Apple was always going to go to them for their, wi-fi, bluetooth, whatever it is they're replacing that's currently made by Qualcomm. "Made in America" just sounds good to the person they might want a personal favor from soon.

You promised AI would be getting rid of these worthless, filthy, loathsome "employees", and now you're sending more of them!

The discs cost money to make, the physical stores take another cut on top of Sony's, developers don't like physical copies as they earn less on each one sold regardless of used sales. And of course with used sales Sony earns less as well. Win Win Lose for the consumer, as it were.

People out there banning zombie hunting, the ammunition costs too much, and 'sides it'll own the libs.

3 years ago a Google engineer concluded in an internal memo that "OpenAI has no moat", and neither does anyone else. Any advancement anyone makes could be made by someone else also keeping up with the cutting edge in relatively short order; the idea of building a business on proprietary AI models didn't fundamentally make any sense long term. 3 years and 2 trillion dollars later business types are still yelling "Lalalala can't hear you" even as that observation remains as true as ever.

Our current business model is losing it's massively overvalued hype machine aura, stock holders are starting to ask questions about "finances" and "profits", pivot to the newest hype bullshit before we have to answer for anything!

In a fit of irony I'm finishing up a podcast on an old scam of a bullshit box that did nothing, and was sold for millions up and up and up until it wound up in Iraq in the latter half of the 00's as a "bomb detector". And somehow people kept buying them despite all the proof it was made up, it was an empty box of functionally nothing. But it got in the news. And people read about it being bought in the news, or being promoted in the news, by bribed assholes. And they bought it.

And while mini nuclear reactors are a real thing, they are a fantastically dumb real thing. Nuclear reactors aren't super safe, they're never going to be safe, the Chernobyl reactor was a very smart and safe design and humans still fucked that up and turned into easily and by far the deadliest industrial accident in human history once you take into account long term cancer rates of affected areas even hundreds of kilometers away. And yet the nuclear industry puts out a tiny bit of crap about safety and how "coal kills people too so really if you think about it..."

And "small" nuclear reactors still create nuclear waste, stuff that can corrode through containers holding it quite easily and leech into groundwater you might be drinking next to it. A problem so costly if it gets out of hand that the US's original major nuclear research and production site in of Hanford, Washington has a cleanup cost that's risen to over half a trillion dollars decades after being shut down and efforts have been ongoing. And these companies want to put this sort of thing everywhere, near where you live, and have it managed by the cheapest labor the company can find. On top of that nuclear reactors are expensive compared to renewables, and if you make them smaller and they get more expensive.

Just build some fucking windmills and stick them to batteries and you'll be fine. Renewables beat out coal in the US this year despite the dying orange drooler literally bribing company not to build more, and there's no blackouts or anything in the US. These timelines of "X decades" into the future for baseload power "if we start now!" are not needed, not when cheap nigh infinite lifespan batteries have a likely similar or shorter timeline and fucking fusion of all things is promising a similar timeline to these stupid mini nuclear reactor companies.

The "innovation" of China "being able to launch new models in 18 months" is f*ing embarrassing. Not for them, but for all the stupid, blindingly obvious shit other auto manufacturers just weren't doing at all like "model it in a f*ing computer before going to all the trouble of building a prototype you tenth wits".

And when people tell you it's fine and other car manufacturers "can't compete" just remember that while this is outlawed in China itself, the Chinese Yuan is deliberately undervalued so it's even cheaper as an export and so is even more undercut!

That's not the question and you know it, deflection to make yourself sound smart instead and end up like some gobshite goblin shill, which you probably are. I don't see em dashes so what are you personally paid by Google somehow to do this in person or is your head so far up your own ass you get high off your farts?

A bunch of crappy scientists wringing their hands and implying the question of why no one's taken toddlers and strapped them to chairs for years on end in a double blind experiment where they're forced to watch an Ipad or not depending on their group. It took 30 seconds to find a study with an N of hundreds linking screen time to BMI and sleep troubles in children. Review, excess screentime may be associated with impaired executive function."A total of 46 studies met the inclusion criteria. Overall, the evidence points to a link between higher levels of screen use and negative outcomes such as reduced physical activity, poorer sleep, attention difficulties, and challenges in emotional and social functioning."

AKA for fuck's sake do your fucking job

I'm pretty sure I don't like Flock, but I'm equally certain this self congratulatory back patter will be suggesting bringing back Latin as an entrance requirement for college next.