If they self-improve, won't we have to trust them to test themselves for alignment?

Anthropic is actually so far ahead of the competition that the #2 and #3 spots are their older model and the older model before that.

The Hegnet and Orangenet

As in: Suck Bezos's Big Fat one,

Nothing is more capitalist than trying to maximize your revenue. It's someone else's job to prevent you from doing it if it harms the market. Regulation is either a feature of capitalism or a check on it, depending on how you look at it.

Fear not! It's entirely possible the category was chosen by an AI. Editorial automation would probably reduce the error rate here.

Did you think Ukrainians are Muslim?

Probably in here somewhere: "run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud"

EU techie: "We did it, we replaced Google!"

Boss: "Good job! Are there any other US dependencies?"

EU techie: "Um, yes, it runs on top of Bing."

Boss: "Microsoft!?"

EU techie: "Yip. We couldn't get our home-grown one to work right."

Boss: "Uhgg, well, don't tell anyone and you can have a Citroen."

Russian citizens have no incentive to push innovation, the war's potential prizes give ordinary Russians no notable advantage, yet Ukraine is fighting for its survival: it's adapt or die.

California joined Canada. The orange thing is now all yours!

Which will come first?:

1. Practical flying cars
2. Practical fusion energy
3. Robot that do can dishes
4. Useful quantum computer

...the Higgs BSOD

Hey, you just solved the Hormuz Conundrum, congratulations! Both sides get a better deal than Obama's deal, so can now brag and move on with life.

Maybe the mathies will enter our field and force the industry to factor out all the repetitious bloat found in current stacks. All that repetitious verbose shit just cannot be the pinnacle of software development, I'll bet my Vulcan wanker on it (a transplant). It might require new programming languages, but so be it! Or burning the damned DOM?