Volvo sells gas-powered cars. Killing Polestar is a twofer, it's anti-Chiner AND anti-EV, plus Musk likes it.

"...designed to protect national security by keeping sensitive driver data and vehicle control systems out of the hands of foreign governments..."

Now there's some complete nonsense. Nothing worse than having that data in the hands of Elon Musk.

"Why do I get the feeling this is some person in the government thinking Volvo was still Swedish but Polestar is evil communism car."

Because MAGA does. Also, what about Lotus?

It would be a good start, but not worth it unless Musk and Thiel are also ruined.

"I think Microsoft just aren't testing legacy Outlook properly anymore ..."

CI/CD for the win.

There are no high paying jobs in data centers, just destruction of quality of life for locals. Perfect for red states, they are accustomed to being shit on, they vote for it.

"The worst people have the most money because they have no compunctions about harming others."

Yes, that's why capitalism must be regulated, precisely the opposite of what Republicans have pursued since the 80s.

OTOH I don't hate everyone who's committed a crime, and I don't think the purpose of our system should be "punish the wicked" or exact retribution or anything, either. If we think a person can be returned to life on the outside without undue risk to the public, I'm all for that. but if OTOH we can identify that someone is likely to recidivize(?), then maybe it's best for everyone if they stay locked up. Meanwhile, I don't think we can look at the penal system in isolation to determine that - see e.g. comments elsewhere on this page about the quality and capability of the society at large to provide an environment that lessens the likelihood of recidivism.

You seem to be assuming that the difference between Nordic countries and the US is only about the penal system itself, as opposed to e.g. more social democracy i.e. a stronger social safety net for people once they are back out in society, which might them less likely to resort back to crime?

"In other words, they haven't fixed the problem of recidivism, they've just kept people in jail longer."

If they're keeping the habitual criminals in prison, and it means fewer crimes committed against decent law-abiding folk, then what's the problem? Isn't the purpose of our laws and penal system to protect the innocent?

You don't know what the alleged patents are, or whether they are granted rather than just filed. If "everyone already does this", where this is what is claimed in the patent, then there will be documentation. If there is documentation, the patent will not be granted. It's not magic.

"I ran headlong into what we now call hallucinations in 1996..."

Seems highly unlikely. "what we now call hallucinations" is a 21st century phenomenon, a decade later. "what we now call hallucinations" is an LLM failure mode, LLMs first appeared two decades later.

I wrote software with bugs back in the 80s, perhaps I have your hallucination claim beat by a decade, given that the term can mean anything.

"The reason 2Brains doesn't lie and the reason it's cheap are the same reason. It looks the fact up instead of guessing it ..."

Then it is constrained by what it can look up. A search engine with a natural language interface, not AI.

The reason humans do not lie (except when they do) is because they have values, not because the world is a multiple choice test with a cheat sheet. Humans can show their work, this doesn't even do work, it isn't a solution to anything and a proper solution obviates the need. Why employ "reasoning" when all the answers already exist? Because they don't. But hey, we can see why this guy got out of the business, and with the big money got back in. Same shit, different day.

Also...

"It is the whole ballgame for enterprise AI."

No, it is not. The "hallucination problem" is a symptom of a grotesque failure of architecture, but the ballgame for enterprise AI is predicated on a lack of such failure. Fixing the "hallucination problem" means you're in the ballgame, not that you've won. AI companies aren't interested in fixing it, though, they're interested in a race to grab the cash. Enterprises need to wise up, these tools aren't being developed to do a good job but to make billionaires richer.

Case in point: Long Island NY residents and activists got the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant shut down before it ever even went fully on line. Now there are wind turbines, solar panels, and battery storage located there, as well as a connection point for imported power from New England.

The problem here is the assumption there is any technical reason at all. That's not how the Trump administration works.

While all of this is true, if "they" means Trump then it's even worse. Trump doesn't even know what facts and reality are. To Trump, a fact is what he says and anything that disagrees is "fake news". Trump's entire life was spent continually lying, he's never spent a moment understanding reality and has no concept of how science even works. To Trump, there is no such thing as "real data", only your claim against mine and the only use for your claim is to be the enemy.

"Incidentally, this little problem is also why they cannot do anything right. Doing things right requires seeing reality. They are not capable of doing that and neither are most of their supporters."
Completely correct, although their supporters might be recoverable. To do that, we need to get serious about winning a war against lying and propaganda, something we've been losing now longer than the Trump shitshow.