Certainly a far more useful investment than yet another never-to-be-built AI data center.
Investment in an AI server farm which never materializes, is probably a net good when compared with investment in an AI facility which DOES get built.
The sad irony is that most of the staff being laid off will be using the services of the company that just axed them to try to land a new job.
While universal basic income is a useful policy tool and I think we WILL reach it eventually, there are economics papers out there that demonstrate that, sans Pigouvian transaction tax, AI is a race to the bottom.
The AI Layoff Trap by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas is still sitting on my desktop. A quick Google search reveals they are not the only ones who are pursuing this line of thinking.
BUt here in the U.S. "muh freedumb" will ensure that we run that race till the bottom falls out. Hopefully Asia and Europe play this transition a bit smarter, so something of our society continues.
He's the CEO of a company whose value comes entirely from being a meme. Who do you think is going to run it? Also, he can't legally answer a lot of the questions they were asking him.
What questions that they asked, for which he said the answers were on the web site, can he not legally answer?
He clearly had an axe to grind with CNBC, given his multiple passive-aggressive mentions of how they predicted his downfall.
The one interviewer appeared to strike a body blow when she asked if his motivations were tied to a performance-based compensation package. All of GameStop's flailing malarky makes sense through that lens: the CEO was trying a hail mary, 'cause otherwise he gets didly-squat. Part of that malarky is claiming to own 5% of eBay when, as the main interviewer pointed out, most of that so-called ownership was through derivatives. This guy's a fraud. Time to short GameStop.
The interview shows the CEO is kind of a jerk. He probably shouldn't be put in situations where communication is a requirement, like public interviews that are intended to help achieve an aggressive goal.
It's like he didn't understand he was on air during the conversation, despite the host clearly calling out that there was an audience listening.
The stark response from eBay is certainly understandable, having seen the interview.
I question that the wealthy ARE receiving benefits, beyond the pick and shovel vendors.
That's probably true; however, if the trend continues then the torch and pitchfork vendors may end up rolling in dough and pulling some serious overtime.
Remember kids - revolution is always an option, and sometimes a duty. America was founded by revolutionaries - so honour your forbears and carry on the tradition. You have nothing to lose but your chains!
(Sorry, I almost forgot - you'll also shed the propaganda that makes you think of the chains as cool jewellery).
Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."
Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning
Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.
"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."
"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."
Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Agreed that the Mach-E is a terrible name. But how did they screw up such a guaranteed out-of-the-park home run with an electric Mustang? I mean the whole image of the Mustang is a sporty performance vehicle for the young and stupidly lead-footed. Mustangs are classically known for acceleration and EVs are wickedly good at that. I mean, if Ford were to create a 1965-styled electric Mustang, I shudder to think how many boomers would buy them. They were the dream car of an entire generation.
Ford, are you listening?
I had K5 and Cyrix 6x86, but I quite supporting them about 30 years ago.
Child, I had a Cyrix math co-processor for my 286 computer.
Speaking of "old", did you know that there was an 80186 microprocessor? The company I worked for made its own custom controller board using that chip. I had thought it was only ever used as an embedded processor, but just recently I learned that there was at least one PC produced that used a 186.
I take your points about the importance of tactile and audible feedback. Still, I wonder if esthetics might get in the way of feedback queues specific to electric drive.
Good points - thanks. TFA mentions muscle memory, which makes what you said more compelling.
I do wonder if catering to ICE-era reflexes might hinder adaptation to the possibilities that electric motors offer.
I have an Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro which I may upgrade at some point, so I've been following the Bambu situation since it became news. But I'm not terribly well plugged in to the 3D scene, so apologies in advance if what I'm about to suggest is silly or otherwise not practical.
How about setting up an open cloud service which can fool Bambu printers into using it instead of Bambu's own service? I get that might not provide some of the features and capabilities that would rely on tight integration. But it would give Bambu purchasers an alternative when they (probably inevitably) get too pissed off with "Bambu Deere" having who-knows-what access to their printers and their possibly-proprietary designs.
That might be the opening shot in a war of attrition on both sides. But it sure would get a lot of attention, and it would be yet another strong "NO" message to corporate overlords. The motto of everyone who doesn't financially benefit from Bambu-style overreach should be "jail-break EVERYTHING".
The market IS white hot right now, but the Hormuz hit is just starting to land. Demand at the edges is what sets the price - if all southeast Asian gamers are spending the GPU money on gas, that cools the rush. And I have no confidence any of these datacenter announcements are going to lead to actual builds. Companies talked a great game, but the political heat is on, the electric and water constraints are real, and advances like TurboQuant, which conservatively speaking offers a 4x boost to existing GPUs
The AI/datacenter/GPU self dealing circle looks more like the derivative traders of 2008 with each passing day. Just like CDOs, that "money" is all conditional, and when conditions change, it's all gone. Society got some nice frontier models and advances in manufacturing out of it, now if corporate America takes even half a step back on the rush
I spend my days working on the system for my startup. Since I had a computer science education and a bunch of time in grade running ISP systems, I bring that distributed systems engineer vibe to my vibe coding. It'll need work once it's funded, but the MVP will be functional and secure.
I was using X tokens/week via Claude Code. They stumbled on the Opus 4.7 rollout and I got busy tuning my setup. I added LSP Enforcement Kit + Serena, CodeSight, and OptiVault. This made Claude more or less behave
Companies that are using token burn as a metric, if they are not providing top quality tooling for the people using it, are basing their performance reviews on who can tolerate some highly random LLM over an efficient, well thought out harness.
Meta foisted a digital cesspool on us and it would not hurt my feeling a bit to see it completely desiccated. I do feel badly for the legions of humans that are going to be forced to wade through the increasingly crusty muck while the company attempts to figure out what to do about AI. There are rumblings out there about what is happening to the advertising based internet we all know (and despise). Meta clearly can't execute with AI and they may well get bowled over by it.
GM needs to be made to disgorge every dime they made selling that data.
They need to disclose who purchased the data and what the price was.
Every victim of this privacy violation needs legal recourse and class action seems like it would be best for the masses.
Anyone who can show significant harm should aggressively pursue all parties involved.
The only way this behavior will stop is when engaging in it brings bitter pain.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
