It only looks sloppy to people that took Altman's statement at face value (if that was you, please stop eating glue its not good for you). I think to most of us it was a clear and decisive move to leverage OpenAI's relative lack of morales for some big bucks. Everyone in America realizes at this point that hiding behind "the government promises to obey the law" was never particularly believable but has become farcical in 2026.

Trump and his supporters have been very clear from the beginning that the law is whatever Donald Trump says it is. So "lawful purpose" is a totally pointless fig leaf. OpenAI's models will be used for whatever purpose the government wants.

Or at least not the only threat. The barrier to entry was still very high, which meant the costs were high. You are going to get some large number of customers wondering why they are paying so much money for software services when new competitors are offering the same service for 1/10th the cost.

You are also going to get a lot more people asking why they are paying for services that are now not that difficult to just build in house.

These cases don't have to apply to everyone, but if it applies to 10% of your customers thats a big, big deal.

Most of the posts claiming either are marketing on one and denial on the other.

Many of us working for large companies know that AI started being introduced in ways that would not affect productivity, profit, employment, or GDP numbers —email summaries, Teams transcriptions, etc., Some things that are somewhat useful, mostly not.

We are now at a point where companies have started finding more "productive" uses. In part because the tools have gotten better, in part because businesses have had more time to figure them out and decide when and where they can be trusted.

But we are clearly entering a period where AI is being applied to more "productive" roles and we should soon start seeing that reflected in economic numbers.

I think the win state is being the last one standing and establishing the type of dominant monopoly status that Google, Amazon, Nvidia, or TSMC have in their domains. But, even bigger. Is it possible? I dont know, but I think thats the dream of these companies/nations/whatever.

The consensus I have seen is that Chinese efforts are absolutely on par with what is going on in the US and that its not yet clear if one or the other (or neither) will race out ahead and "win" the AI race.

Why do people have to be like this? Lego's core product is brilliant and popular and not going anywhere. This is OBVIOUSLY not a replacement for that. Its an adjacent, compatible product line that some subset of people could get a lot out of. The creative potential once you get away from the branded kits is really high. This feels like people that are mad about rising Lego costs latching onto a mostly unrelated new product as a vessel to express their frustration.

I have to say as a diehard Trump-hater, I am very on board with policies that clamp down on this tidal wave of cheap junk even if "reduce the amount of cheap junk America buys and immediately throws away" is not actually the policy goal.

Lufthansa does not operate domestically in the US. We are borderline irrelevant to their business. Trump can be wrecking our economy AND also companies on the other side of the world can make decisions that have nothing to do with us.

You know Lufthansa is not an American company right?

This is revisions to the Biden-era numbers. Im a full-time Trump-hater, but this just validates what many of us have been saying for awhile now: the positive economic numbers from the last 18+ months have been a mirage. The economic under Biden was not actually that good, and under Trump its getting worse.

There are plenty of proxy businesses you could short, though, including various power companies or Nvidia, if one had the appetite.

I really wish my fellow guys that also play games wouldnâ(TM)t be so defensive about the role they are playing in all this. I think a lot of people my age 40s) just assume itâ(TM)s the same criticism as the 80s and 90s which was largely unfounded hysterics. But modern games aimed at young boys are built on the same predatory, attention-keeping/destroying logic as the worst parts of social media or casinos.

The Democratic base is not a left/right mirror image of the Republican base. The Democratic base is not online leftists, who again and again are revealed in every single party contest of every kind to be powerless and outnumbered. The actual Democratic base is boring centrists that love Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, and have supported corporations for decades.

Sony is not going to move manufacturing for a 5 year old console to the US, it makes zero sense. Just setting aside the ridiculousness of investing billions of dollars based on whichever cat happens to be winning the fight inside an 80-year-old's brain in a given moment, it wouldn't make the costs of mass producing consoles cheaper. But maybe this is for the best, do Americans really need 65 PS5s when they can settle for 2?