Who cares? Stock market valuation is not an indicator of product quality or whether a company has a future. All it is is an indicator of greed and projections.

Sounds like a mix of AI slop and delusion. Good luck!

The same thing happens for code generation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.090...
Devs think they are about 20% faster, when in reality, they are about 20% slower. Decreased code quality and added vulnerabilities are not counted in that.

Oh my poor sweet summer consumer.

You don't "purchase" games any more, you don't get a "copy". You get a time limited license that expires when you stop paying the ever increasing monthly fees. That's on top of the $100 entry fee per game you get charged.

This is why publishers hate Steam so much, it's not that the 30% is onerous, it's feck all for handling the transaction and customer service components, what they hate is that Steam doesn't enforce a subscription model.

And remember folks, it's got absolutely nothing to do with a violent gun culture that the US refuses to admit could possibly be a problem.

I know it's not considered cool around here to allow Google to track you. But for me and millions of other people, we find it a reasonable trade. I don't really care if Google knows where I am and what websites I visit. What they give me in exchange, is valuable to me.

By the way, Tesla tracks you too, even though you're paying for the service.

Yes. My take as well. And all indirect predictions this will be AGI and other crap.

And a rather large number of other efforts to make education "cheaper"....

The problem is that measuring educational effectiveness takes decades, sometimes half a century or longer. You have to guess. But betting on AI is definitely the wrong guess with the AI we have today.

That sounds good, but "AI" cannot actually do that.

Slide rules also teach logarithms and how to estimate orders of magnitude and a few other useful things. Removing them was really stupid.

That would be the smart approach. But it requires work and it will bet too hard for many. Hence I bet this will not be done.

I don't have a car: my experience of these things is from a variety of reasonably recent rental models. They are at best OK, frankly. My most recent hire was a basic van which had none of them and I didn't miss them. I've got a phone and it's the same in every car.

Sometimes you need a lot of hoops to get the sodding audio to work, if you want some tunes. aux cords worked fine. They've all got USB now, so why not offer basic USB audio while charging happens?

Oh yeah except google maps has relatively recently turned into the most astonishing battery hog. Used to be fine. recent uses of it have absolutely wrecked my battery. Double also, google maps is a bit shit as well.

Maybe nothing. OpenAI could simply have identified them as easily impressable idiots. There are a lot of those in the education system.

OpenAI's business model is basically Sam Altman's incerdible skill at trolling the media into giving him vast amounts of incredibly positive[*] publicity for free and using that to induce a massive sense of FOMO in venture capitalists.

[*] That includes his performatively dire warnings about how dangerous AI, specifically his AI is. "our AI is SO GOOD it will take all jobs!!111one!1onelevenONE1!" and the press breathlessly parrot it for clicks because the media has basically been destroyed, but the take-home message is ChatGPT is really good. Sure it's dangerous but do YOU want to be the one left out when it takes over the world? No, well sign up here to invest!