"New technology" or "equipped with cutting-edge technologies" isn't a real selling point any more either because people have come to expect that to mean "still contains bugs" and "will not work as expected".

The problem with "AI" in this context is that the current hype about "AI" is all about LLMs. There are other forms of AI that have been very useful and reliable. LLMs have proved they are not that kind of AI for everyone who has actually checked their results against trustable sources and the media has actually reported about (some of) these incidents.

But the US is working on it. :-(

And don't forget: China produces lots of goods that are sold world wide. A lot more than the EU or US. So it's no wonder that they need more power and generate more pollution.

Germany here: I severely doubt that Germany is ahead of you there. E.g. we don't get paid to consume electricity but instead have to pay a higher price because the producers of solar and wind energy get paid for the electricity they cannot sell, due to lacking demand but also due to lacking power line capacity from the north where most of the wind turbines are to the south where most of the industry is located.

Most of us also don't have the digital meters that would be required for being paid, because until recently it cost an arm and a leg to get them installed. The last government put a stop on that practice.

There are a lot of solar panels on single family houses here, but very few on larger buildings, e.g. factories, warehouses, office buildings or apartment buildings, or over parking lots (there is apparently a law in France that they have to build solar panels over new parking lots).

We are getting there, though. I just hope that our new government doesn't step on the brakes (again). They have already started pouring money into building many new gas power plants though. Fun fact: When the previous government wanted to have (fewer) gas power plants built to stabilize the power grid, the then opposition CDU party was complaining about that.

.. we'll just have to write the prompt's for it. Oh, wait!

Seriously: I learned touch typing in my youth and it has definitely benefited my career as a software developer. I can concentrate on what I want to write, not on how to type it, and that's a big advantage.

No, that is not what is going to happen: They will try to use AI as an excuse for submitting fake documents to a court case and get way with it. And they definitely should not be allowed to get away with it.

The lawyer is responsible for everything he submits to a court case. He may use "AI" go help generate these, but it is still his responsibility to check whether everything is correct. If it is not, that should be handled in the same way as if he on purpose filed fake documents.

COBOL was designed to allow non-programmers to write code that maps closely to the English language.

So now we let AI take that code and translate it to English.

Hm, that's probably something that could have been done without AI at all. But without having actually seen the generated specifications and the code they were generated from, that's difficult to say.

Actually no. I have found many very useful answers on StackOverflow. If you don't, maybe its you?

That's not to say that the growing enshitification hasn't been obvious for years, basically since the original founders sold it.

... and forcing foreign talent to leave.

So Europe will get another chance.

Just a guess: It converts strong IR light into weak visible light?

Why should Pope Francis go to Moscow? Putin won't go to heaven (if there is such a thing), that's for sure.

... or measles vaccinations.

"Bowe conducted three research experiments during the flight"

So, not only tourists.

With the current state of Deutsche Bahn that's a questionable statement. Will the train arrive on time? Or at all? Will it actually go to Nuremberg? Will it break down during the trip? Will there be a functioning toilet on board?

I'm sure Trump has already cured cancer. He is the almighty, the best president of the United States ever. He can do everything and even those things he can't do, he delegates to his great co-governors. Remember the great cures for COVID19 he came up with in his first term!