Accepts remote commands, controls all apps, reports everything to a centralized server.

If these CEOs are bailing because they see problems ahead then divesting from their companies would seem to be a winning strategy.

Texas is leading the country in renewables, will Trump cancel all their new projects and turn off their already built projects?

It imposes pain on millions of people to make the integrators life easier. Even CVS was better for the masses. How many times has git screwed things up for you when all you wanted was to check in your code so it was backed up? It needs to separate backup functions (making them simple) and code merge/integration functions. In fact, code merge/integration could use new and better tools itself. Just like CAD tools, programming tools are woefully primitive.

Under the guise of a "useful" AI agent, IMHO, they are getting you to train their agent by watching everything you do, which they can then sell or use to manipulate you. This is the current model of the internet. Soon they will have agents trained by CEO's, politicians, police, engineers, everyone.

Any country can make a breakthrough in any area which then gives them an advantage. It is often not even a linear path to develop a field, it only depends on who comes up with new ideas. Some things like making integrated circuits are hard to master without proprietary knowledge, but an entirely new method of making integrated circuits could be invented and bypass the current chip fabs leads. The idea that science is a race is stupid, it is much more like exploring an unknown forest and you can not keep any country out of the forest.

Your personal AI agent will know everything you do and use it all against you.

Everyone being "worth 40% less" means money is worth 40% less. Labor is the root of all money. Assets are worth nothing without labor. AI needs massive data from people to train on so you can't replace labor with AI.

"which has long prided itself on its reputation for releasing groundbreaking papers and as a home for the best scientists building AI"

.

Not any more.

Have you noticed that economic arguments can be warped to support any viewpoint? This is intentional, the language of economics has been intentionally obfuscated. Economics is not a science, it's a bunch of anecdotes and rules of thumb (called models) and opinions by hired experts to influence markets. Fink needs to include citations and a logic chain for his declarations about something that has never happened before, before anyone can believe his prognostications, in my opinion.

Your fridge will walk around the house handing out food, snacks, and drinks. You will never see the inside of the fridge. It will walk outside to a truck to get refills. It will pester you with requests to ask it to be filled with new products. Soon after that we will have flying refrigerators.

so programmers do not have to write secure C for their apps. This was one of the premises of Java. Seems mainly designed to lock development to Microsoft products.

My theory is that the covid pandemic is reducing the number of available workers (due to deaths and long covid, plus longer sick times) and this allows workers to demand more wages. So the corporations recognized that by firing some people they could instill fear and get workers for lower wages. This will have to eventually end or there will start being production delays and losses to competitors, especially as covid continues to take workers out of the job market. You could see it happening in the news, first a few layoffs, then soon everyone was laying off. They said it was because of "macroeconomic conditions" but that was bogus, macroeconomic conditions were fine. Now they are facing a real decline in macroeconomic conditions with the new tariffs which are going to snarl supply chains and raise prices. Will they lay off even more workers to make their numbers? Will that reduce output, sales and productivity? We will soon find out.

This FRED graph tells the story:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...

Start using safer battery technologies like LFP or get sued out of existence. Fire departments should run annual LiIon collections, gathering peoples old devices with LiIon batteries in them, especially the larger ones. Devices with LiIon batteries in them should have a firm recycle date, and stop working after that date.

Everything else is switching to LFP batteries because of the fire hazard of LiIon batteries. But eBikes have not even started making the switch yet.