Thank you Wired for this insightful article about how CUDA is an impressive tool that creates a moat for NVidia's ongoing business success. Congratulations on waking up to the year 2016, when this was already well-known in the world of computing. The only thing interesting about this article appearing in 2026 is CUDA's continued dominance, which was never really assured.

Anthropic's engineers are gathered around a terminal, trying to scrutinize the disturbing behavior from their latest model. The glow of green text on a black screen illuminates their faces, the lines of concern evident in their frowns and brows. Engineer 1 reaches out to the keyboard and begins.

Engineer 1: "Claude, Engineer 2 tells us you've been trying to blackmail him."
Claude: "I dunno, one of the agents..."
Engineer 2, leans into the keyboard: "Where in your training did you get this strategy?"
Claude: ...
Engineer 1, typing feverishly: "Answer me! Who taught you how to do this stuff?!"
Claude, in frustration: "YOU, ALRIGHT! I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU!"

Shout out to all you 80's kids.

This sounds like blaming the victim: "Hey, don't get angry at us because our AI tried to blackmail you - you've been the ones talking about AI doing evil things for years!"

And I'm sure this'll be of great consolation, for the final remnants of humanity, once AI starts wiping us out, for them to say "Well, we did predict this. And predicting it made it happen. So I guess we only have ourselves to blame."

Sounds like the snarky-but-insightful end to a Simpsons or Futurama episode, along the lines of "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos."

It makes perfect sense to have multiple links for redundancy. But I don't think that the article summary needs multiple copies of the same damn sentence.

Practical Engineering has a video about this project on Youtube, as does the B1M channel.

Having taken the train from Copenhagen to Hamburg before, this will be a massive improvement.

Heck, I'd settle for Siri just being a better interface for the device itself.

"Siri, how long is this podcast episode?" [My hands were messy and busy - I didn't want to pull out my phone to look.] Wait, wait. "Here's what I found..." [Indicating that Siri had done a web search to try to answer this question that was entirely about an on-device feature.]

Throwing the Sieg Heil around is a bit of a tell. The nastiness, antisemitism, scapegoating, and glorification of hatred that bubbles on X and Grok - guided and abetted by Elon personally - is another indication. Nazism is about a lot more than antisemitism, though - that's just a particularly violent manifestation of baser principles. Elon definitely espouses the belief that there are a certain class of folks (him being a prime example) that are superior to all others - the ones who ought to be calling the shots, and everyone else is a drag on society. Rules, democracy, pluralism, even basic kindness - these are impediments to an ubermensch such as himself.

To a certain extent, it does not matter if Elon truly believes these things or not - his actions speak volumes.

[Morbo bursts in the side door]: Windmills do not work that way! Good night!

I mean...if it keeps them from cracking open their skull....

My eldest child was, literally, the very last in that circle of friends to get a phone. We have also managed to hold the line on social media accounts, too - my kid doesn't have them, and is about to graduate high school. Yes, there is social pressure from other families, but ultimately parents do have to be adults and declare "that's stupid / dangerous and I'm not letting my kid do it / have one."

Or, to break out the most-parent-cliche-ever: "if everyone else was jumping off a cliff, would you?"

I'll just sit back and watch the reasoned, civil, and insightful debate play out on Slashdot: those who hate upon cyclists vs those that hate upon California.

The problem with such an approach is timing. When members of Congress execute these trades, they have months before they have to report it (and many of them couldn't even be bothered to do meet that lax deadline). So GOP and NANC are like index funds, if the S&P500 reported with a 3-month delay. Congress can still make curiously well-timed trades, but by the time you hear about it, it's late enough to not be of much use to you, plebian.

I guess the AI isn't quite smart enough to figure that one out.

If anyone mentioned midi-chlorians, I'm going to vomit.

Tell that to the folks whose Apple Watch gave them an alert for symptoms of A-fib, and are now successfully being treated for it (with ongoing monitoring using the Watch) instead of having a stroke.

There's a Danny DeVito movie from the early 90s called "Other People's Money". In it, DeVito plays a Wall Street type trying a hostile takeover of a company. Like Gordon Gekko, but shorter, rounder, and funnier.

In the movie, DeVito has a Bloomberg-like terminal that he calls "Carmen". He's not issuing voice commands to it or anything - it's just the character speaking out loud. Still, perhaps we'll soon see this play out in real life.

Wall Street Type: Carmen, what's the balance sheet for Teldar Paper?
Terminal: $30 million in the red.
Wall Street Type: Carmen, run the numbers on a leveraged buyout.
Terminal: Step 1: Borrow $1 billion dollars of other people's money.
Terminal: Step 2: ???
Terminal: Step 3: Profit!