Sadly, I think we are almost there already of the "mostly works most of the time" software across most domains. We got there without AI, but instead with cheap contract shops copying and pasting code in bulk, gluing together large code projects, bloating the software beyond belief with a myriad of dependencies. AI reaching human competency level does not necessarily require AI to get better, it can also be accomplished by reducing human competency, which the software industry has been doing for while now.

Is parking at work considered taxable compensation (it has value, especially in big cities)? How is a place to park your kid safely different than a place to park your car in the eyes of the IRS or other tax authorities?

What would be some examples of such services provided as compensation, which are not owned/controlled by the employee but taxable as compensation?

If it is in fact compensation, then the employee owns said compensation once received. As with paycheck, or stock grants, they can sell it, trade it, use it for whatever they want to. It doesn't sound like this article talks about compensation. AI tokens sounds more like work accommodations, like a chair to sit in, desk, or electricity to light the workspace and power the computer - none of which the employee is allowed to resell (sell the cube furniture for extra money, or install a crypto rig to run off of work electricity, etc).

For anyone who read the full contract, are there any penalties in stipulated it that contract, i.e. what happens should Epic disparage Google or violate any of the other contractual obligations? Without specific penalties, the agreement has no teeth, so no motivation to stick to it.

So in other words, lazy parents demanding the government parent their children, because they can't be bothered?

Keeping kids away from the real world doesn't work - either the kids find a way around, or they go crazy once they become adults like a dog that spent all its life on a leash and is suddenly freed, then doesn't know what to do with that freedom. I have personally known kids like that who ended up going wild the first year away from home in college - partying, drinking, failing out, being taken advantage of, falling into depression, in one case even committing suicide. The only way to raise the children is to teach them about the world, including its dangers, and how to handle them, and how to deal with the world. Yes parents, it is work. Want a kid without work, sponsor a kid in a third world country.

Your opinion seems to be based on limited knowledge of religions. Most religions teach blind faith, not questioning the supreme being (or even religious leaders), and being willing to sacrifice oneself or others for the cause. This blind faith is celebrated in many religions and their member strive hard to attain it. Examples include old testament Abraham told by god to kill his own son Isaac as a test of his faith, holy wars enshrined in various religions (some to defend the faith, others to expand the faith). There have also been religions which actually convinced their members to commit suicide, for example Heaven's Gate, or Jonestown (a.k.a. People's Temple) - for obvious reasons such religions didn't survive to grow, but they explicitly guided people to suicide. Heaven's Gate as a matter of fact was similar reasoning to this case, along the lines of "you are not dying, you are feeing your spirit of this body you no longer need".

So the drop correlated with laptops, what else does it correlate? How about personal smart phone revolution and people (students AND teachers) getting connected to internet/social media 24/7? It also correlates with global warming. Heck, it probably correlates with US national debt rising too. Correlation does not prove causation on its own. Where is the proof that the laptops cause this drop in scores?

So the problem is the buses are not meeting their original performance specifications (operating temperatures and range) and estimated fix is 18-24 months away. Sounds like someone missed a clause in a contract that specifies that the manufacturer is obligated to repair the buses back to their original specifications within some reasonable time, and the manufacturer has to cover the cost of substitute product (loaner buses?) for the entire duration of down-time, or lemon the buses back to the manufacturer.

If facing large contractual obligations, perhaps the manufacturer would have come up with some stopgap solution, for example a fast battery heater to heat up batteries prior to charging.

I don't think that is what they are talking about here. Large US companies have already moved data of EU citizens to reside in EU, and they follow GDPR.

Why would they spend the money to improve the product if they were already the best that people can legally buy in EU (if EU legislates that you must buy from EU)? There is no return on investment to improve the product if there is no competition offering better products to your customers.

When you say "you must buy from European company", this automatically means "even if non-European product is better". If European companies offered better and/or same-but-cheaper technologies, there would be no reason to EU to codify any such push into law.

So your theory is that if it wasn't for such video the Chinese counterintelligence services would have assumed their enemies have too many spies in China already and therefore have no use in actively recruiting new ones? If not, than what does such video really change for the Chinese counterintelligence?

It sounds crazy, until you dig a little deeper and realize the Chinese government has similar rules about their self-driving cars. China also has further rules about data collection (you know, data you can use to train AI), which I expect the US to duplicate (or try to one-up them) soon.

Every player is just remote controlling a robot, so any injuries are just remedied by spare parts up to and including the entire robot - no injuries to the player at all! The next step is to replace the players with AI. Super bowl 70 - OpenAI vs Anthropic!