Cat videos? Nah. Sora was all about bringing dead actors back to life in dumb 10 second skit comedies.

I'll bet that they generated about 20 TB of just Wilford Brimley memes, he was like the patron saint of that service.

The joke is on you, the Cisco routers are also mostly made in China so they likely have backdoors for both countries!

With the exception of the proprietary routers that come with a Starlink dish, I can't think of a single major router manufacturer with a US manufacturing presence.

Not to sound rude, but I'm not sure that Leonid Radvinsky counts as a celebrity. Sure, he built a popular website, but up until today I had no who idea who he was. He's not exactly up there in terms of name recognition with a action movie GOAT like Chuck Norris, anyway.

Most billionaires like Bezos didn't get insanely wealthy by investing their own money into their businesses. They did it by getting other wealthy suckers... er... "qualified investors" to risk their money on their expansion gambles.

Sure, he's investing his own money into Blue Origin, but that's probably more like a hobby to him at this point.

I think that Microsoft saw the lines of people at the Apple Store picking up MacBook Neo's and realized that they're going to continue to lose customers in droves if don't fix Windows 11 ASAP. People are getting tired of their computers being used as billboards for selling XBox Live, Office, Onedrive, and CoPilot.

I love how we can't get reasonably priced video cards from NVidia right now, but now can get processors for AI data centers... in space. We're still at least 5 years away from launch costs being low enough for such a thing to be even practical, let alone profitable.

I don't know if I'd want to invest in the Adobe Photoshop "monopoly" right now. Most people just have AI edit their photos now.

Sure, a talented human can do a better job, but for a dumb social media meme or a lame marketing portal picture.... who really cares? Just take a stock photo and change the background color to match your corporate approved color palette.

I understand the logic, though. The big tech companies want to get people hooked on cheap and easy AI, in the hopes that they get hooked on it and will pay for subscriptions once the free tier plans get neutered.

What they seem to be missing is that running an AI model locally is also becoming cheap and easy. Installing OpenClaw is basically as easy as copying and pasting an install command into a command line window and entering an API key. I'm sure that we'll soon have GUI installers that make that even easier soon.

Yeah... memory and storage prices are going through the roof right now.

The higher prices do not seem to be impacting the large PC manufacturers as much, though. Amusingly, you can get an entire Macbook Neo with the education discount ($499) than the price of 32 GB high speed DDR5 memory kit ($550-$600).

The thing that I'd be worried about is that when you get to that EV charging station in the middle of nowhere, it's out of service and you're basically screwed.

Maybe it got hit by a snow plow. Maybe it got vandalized by some anti EV luddites. Maybe the company who built it just can't afford to maintain it anymore. Either way, you're still screwed.

Sure... they're going to call it an "impaired driver prevention system" to get the technology approved. Of course, what it will really be used for is remotely disabling cars when their owners are more than 14 days behind on car payments.

There is over 1 1/2 Trillion dollars of car loan debt in this country now, and the auto makers know that there will be millions of additional repossessions the next time the economy takes a bad turn. Rather than pay repo men to clean up this mess, it's far easier to remotely disable the car using this "safety" tech and notifying the bank of it's current location.

You would think that they would have learned some lessons from Humane AI pin and the Rabbit R1 failures back in 2024. Hell, even the Apple Vision Pro release from around that time serves as a warning that not every wearable device with an Apple logo on it will be wildly successful.

But, I guess that we need a really epic flop to to help kick off the bursting of the great AI bubble of the mid 2020's?

I love how banks still use weekends and federal holidays as a excuse to delay deposits as well. There is no physical money moving here anymore, it's all been data in a computer for the past 30+ years. Anything to avoid paying interest for as long as possible, I guess.

Great... so now instead of having to worry about my crypto portfolio crashing over weekend, I can worry about my entire retirement portfolio crashing over the weekend! Yay progress!

Yeah... It's easy to proclaim "Do No Evil" when you're not a publicly traded company.

Open AI will need to go public at some point to get funding, though. At that point, it's quarterly profit gains or unemployment for leadership.