A US judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration broke the law when it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk earlier this year, finding that the government had unlawfully targeted the AI firm for refusing to comply with defense department demands. “The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics,” Judge Rita Lin said in a 59-page decision.
Lin’s ruling barred the federal agencies named in the lawsuit from enforcing Donald Trump’s order to stop using Anthropic’s tools and overturned the designation of the company as a “supply chain risk” by the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. The status, usually reserved for foreign firms, would have blocked government agencies from doing business with Anthropic. The case emerged out of a months-long feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon at the start of the year. Anthropic refused to allow the government to use its Claude AI model for fully autonomous lethal weapons or domestic mass surveillance, resulting in Hegseth accusing the company of “arrogance and betrayal”.
Lin put a temporary pause on the government’s punitive measures in March, stating that the government’s actions looked like an attempt to “cripple Anthropic” for exercising its first amendment rights. The ruling this week makes that temporary suspension permanent, although the government may appeal. “We welcome the court’s ruling that this supply chain risk designation was unlawful,” an Anthropic spokesperson said.
The company said games that reward ongoing media consumption are now unavailable to players with a Roblox Kids (ages 5 to 8) or Roblox Select (ages 9 to 15) account. The policy will affect games designed to combine media feeds, autoplay, infinite scrolling, and systems that reward players for doomscrolling through TikTok videos of questionable value.
“Steal an Egg” fits perfectly into this new category. The game tasks players with raising eggs, but they can also steal eggs from other NPCs. Players are incentivized to increase their characters’ speed either by spending in-game currency (Robux) or by watching a video feed on a virtual treadmill. “Steal an Egg” was recently removed from Roblox but is now back in the store without its troublesome video-feed feature.
[…] Roblox also highlights that the new anti-doomscrolling restriction does not apply to the rewarded video ads feature, which rewards players for watching a short clip but does not include autoplay or other infinite-scroll-like design choices.
I remember the anti-drug ads where some shady drug dealer would approach an 8 year old to sell him or her some pills or a baggie of powder. And the kids would just say “NO!” and run away.
I often wondered how that could be a viable business model for a drug dealer. I mean little kids aren’t really looking for drugs and they don’t have much money.
But the clever tech bros figured it out. They figured out how to make a profit being a shady dude hooking kids on crack. It turns out it wasn’t a problem with the image or ethics, it was simply the wrong product!
For a drug dealer, getting a kid hooked on drugs is creating a customer. For a tech bro, getting a kid hooked on doom scrolling is creating a product.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly considering new tariffs on semiconductors used in the U.S., as tech giants race to beat China in the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out. The duties will be imposed on an expanded range of tech products made alongside chips, including laptops, data center servers and gaming hardware, eight people familiar with the matter told Politico in a report published Thursday.The tech industry is pushing back on the tariffs, warning they could raise chip costs, slow data-center construction, and undermine the very AI expansion the administration wants to promote. “This may be the single dumbest way imaginable to pursue American dominance in AI,” said one tech official from a major industry group that also served in the first Trump administration. “It’s like kneecapping yourself at the starting line.”
The measures, which are still in the early phases and subject to significant changes over the next few months, will be introduced via a staggered rollout period, according to the report. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC, but told Politico: “Reshoring semiconductor manufacturing is a top priority for President Trump, whose policies have already secured hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in this key sector.”
Ironically for Republicans the only economic tool they seems to capable of using these days is taxes, taxes and more taxes.
And yet since 2000 it turns out that the Bush and Trump tax cuts are going to end up responsible for nearly 50% of US debt and Trump himself may end up responsible for 25% of all US debt. Let that sink in and accept the fact that when Republicans tell you they want balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility they are lying to your face.
There is no logic.
Trump is genuinely a retard. It is not just that we don’t like his societal choices or his morality. He is really that dumb. He made clear he believes tariffs is some tax the exporters pay themselves.
Also, the tech stocks will crater, Barron Trump will buy the dip and then the orang-outang will cancel the tariffs and Barron will make tons of money.
if you agree with one candidate on 80% of stuff, and the other on 5%, who to vote for is clear.
If you agree with Trump on 80% of what he’s doing I feel genuinely sorry for you.
For now, Google is offering one free book to users in the US as part of the launch campaign, with a caveat — “while supplies last.” At the moment, Expert Intelligence is only available in the Gemini Notebook app and its web dashboard, but down the road, Google says that it will also appear within the core Gemini app and AI mode in Search.Google has partnered with select authors on Featured Notebooks that provide extra insights and context beyond their books. It’s also worth noting that access is still tied to book ownership, so anyone using a shared Gemini notebook must own or purchase the book to fully use the feature.
The broad idea behind expert intelligence is to combine what you can already do with Gemini, and expertise sourced from your favorite books. So, if you’re asking Gemini to create a meal plan that is based entirely on chicken and spinach, you can ask the AI assistant to look for relevant recipes in one of Martha Stewart’s cookbooks that you own. You can use these books as a source and turn them into Infographics, Audio Overviews, and Quizzes, among other formats.
You do NOT own anything through Google Play Books
While scientists often shy away from political discourse, some are saying the Trump administration’s assault on science is behind their departure. “I used to live in the country that I thought was the most enthusiastic about the prospects for science improving the human condition, of any country in the world,” said Phillip Zamore, the chair of RNA Therapeutics Institute at the University of Massachusetts. “And I woke up one day and that wasn’t true anymore.” He has been recruited to McGill University in Montreal, which has also hired five other researchers, and will join the medical faculty. “If scientists don’t stand up for truth, no one will,” Dr. Zamore said.
The Canada-bound brain drain from U.S. institutions began last year as the Trump administration put forward policies that targeted foreign students, academic freedom and funding for equity-related programs. Kevin Hall, a nutrition scientist who left the U.S. National Institutes of Health last year, accusing federal officials of censoring his research on ultraprocessed foods, has been hired at the University of Ottawa. “While certain countries are cutting research and turning their back on academic freedom, we’re doubling down on science,” Melanie Joly, Canada’s industry minister, told reporters at the announcement, in Vancouver, of the new university hiring. She billed it as the world’s “largest talent attraction” project. The European Union has made a similar push. “Years from now, we will look back at today’s announcement, and we will be able to seize the lasting impact of our choices,” Ms. Joly said.
Unpredictable decisions about funding prompted Seth Guikema, a professor in civil and environmental engineering, who has specialized in natural hazards modeling at the University of Michigan, to look elsewhere. His work focuses on how climate hazards inequitably affect communities, and that work has become harder to fund, he said. “Every country sets its priorities in terms of what is going to get funded, and I think Canada has done a very good job of supporting research in areas that really matter to society,” said Dr. Guikema, who will start at Western University in London, Ontario in January.
They’re certainly trying. I was listening to an exoplanets researcher the other day (in response to “How are scientists adjusting the way they work during the Trump administration?”) grumble about how they’re afraid to use the phrase “diversity of exoplanets” in their work because of a (well-grounded) fear that having the word “diversity” will get their paper flagged for rejection. This sort of environment is toxic.
(My favourite response was “Spell it ‘divers’ and throw in the occasional ‘thou art’ and ‘exeunt’ " ;) )
Haven’t worked in academia, have you. I’ll put it in terms you might understand. Suppose there is coach of university basketball team. The school and the coach have a great reputation of attracting the best up and coming athletes. Then the school Administration decides to cut the basketball’s program funding so that it will no will no longer have great facilities, the travel budget is reduced so the school cannot recruit like it used to. The star player decides to finish out his eligibility at another university. Several of his friends decide they’d also like to transfer because of the situation and that the school did nothing to keep the star.
Now, the coach can expect the basketball program to deteriorate because word gets around and high school players learn that tjhe school won’t support the basketball team very well.
So the coach goes to the Administration and explains how they are destroying the basketball program. Unfortunately for the coach, the Administration is run by you who understands nothing about college athletics or basketball. You tell the coach: “There is probably a long list of players eager to fill the vacated roles and a long tail of high school players who will follow them.”
Now you have destroyed the basketball program. I might add your attitude is what got the U.S. into the current predicament with respect to qualified individuals to run anything. DoD is being destroyed by the same boneheaded thinking. Who the hell needs expertise, there’s always a long list of unqualified people willing to step up and screw up.
I know right? So why did 70 million people vote for a person who promised no new wars, while an international agreement that was preventing Iran from having nukes was in place?
One of the first things Trump did was make it easier for Iran to get nukes by tearing up the protections in place. The second thing he did was legitimise their reason for wanting nukes. If your reasoning is the only reason, then there’s 70million fucking stupid people in the USA.
I think it’s the other way round. The fundamentalist branding explicitly engineered their religious teachings to become anti-science. Not because science went against any religion but just to take control. You’ll note they also despise the law, education and fairness. Hypocrisy is the name of the game.
And the reason for that is the Israel Lobby. Truth and equality both hurt their cause of annihilation of Palestine. But also bonus control of the biggest military and the geopolitical leverage that begets. ie: Immunity for war crimes. The so-called Military Industrial Complex is really a euphemism.
From “rizz” to "meat proxy,” words and phrases have fallen in and out of favor for centuries. Culture, politics and technological development have long influenced these trends, and now, new research shows that ChatGPT is beginning to influence how humans communicate. The findings from a team at the Pew Research Center show how, in a short time since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022 and other chatbots followed, the use of certain words and phrases has spiked on the web. The researchers, led by data scientist Samuel Bestvater, studied nearly half a million English language webpage texts in snapshots over the past five years. Not only has AI-written text become more common, but it could also be influencing how people write, such as trying to avoid using the “tells” that have become associated with AI-generated text.“Human writers might also be changing the way that they write in response to AI. I’ve seen some anecdotal evidence of people saying, ‘Now I avoid em dashes,’" Bestvater said. “If human writers are adjusting their choices of words and phrases and punctuation to try to differentiate their writing from AI-generated text, then you would see a pattern that looks sort of like that in the chart.”
Bestvater and his team detected double the number of em dashes, double the frequency of particular words — such as “delve,” “testament” and “interplay” — and nearly triple the use of a phrasing known as negative parallelisms (“it’s not X, it’s Y”), as well as a 63% increase in Oxford commas. But while AI labs continually try to tweak their models to generate more humanlike text, the people they’re mimicking aren’t staying the same.
a 63% increase in Oxford commas
Well, thank God for that!
I can, and do write well.
I wouldn’t _ever_ let AI mess with my style or voice.
More often, a computer’s spell-check or glide-typing correction on my phone fucks up what I was TRYING to say. That’s the whole thing in microcosm.
But leaving out a comma can certainly make sentences more fun ;)
Anyway, let’s eat Grandma.
Yep, if there’s one thing that needs fighting, it’s those pesky lower gas prices.
Well, you have to admit they’ve done a darn good job of fighting them so far!
The company explains that the mobile industry is now facing “significant hardware supply constraints that are altering device memory availability,” which can then, in turn, affect the consumer’s experience with their devices. To address this, Google is now establishing new performance thresholds across several areas, like dynamic memory usage and bitmap usage. In addition, Google is adding code optimization requirements designed to prevent things like app slowdowns and crashes related to performance.
So Google could have provided this service, this whole time?
ALPHABET’s slogan: do evil, until forced to do otherwise!
My favorite version of this is the original Super Mario Bros was only 40KB, with 32KB of that being code and 8KB of that being graphics. That’s it. This means that most screenshots of SMB are bigger than the entire game, sometimes by orders of magnitude depending on specifics.
Well, remember how every Unix app, server, and utility in the 80s and 90s was written in C? Because there was only one refrigerator-sized departmental server with a only few megabytes of memory and two dozen users connected through serial lines, and writing in C was the only way to squeeze out every bit of performance out of it. There was a disk usage quota system allowing each user only a few megabytes of storage. The developer mentality today is that the resources are infinite and they can write code in the least efficient programming languages, and download frameworks the size of a Walmart when they need only a pocket knife.
Except you are accepting their stated reasoning as gospel. They don’t want to free up RAM because of a RAM shortage. They want to free it up to run local AI models on the phone, mostly for data harvesting, behavior recognition, and surveillance.
Persistent mode appears in Codex’s “reasoning effort” menu, in which users can select the level of computing power, tokens, and time they want to allow for an AI model to “think” before answering a prompt. It seems to be one of OpenAI’s most computationally intensive settings. When users have selected Persistent mode, OpenAI’s code base reads that Codex will “continue working until put to sleep.” That’s a stark contrast to currently available modes, which will stop working on a task after a few minutes or hours, even if it’s not complete.
In another file in the code base, OpenAI describes a feature within Persistent mode called “proactivity.” This appears to be a type of system prompt for agents in Persistent mode, which are told that their work is not done when they finish answering a user’s request. Instead, the agent is instructed to proactively create follow-up tasks for itself. The agent is capable of working on those tasks across sessions and using past user interactions and “knowledge of the user” to decide what to work on. It also has a tool to message the user without being asked but is told to send these sparingly.
The instructions also set limits for the agent, according to the file. The agent is told that Persistent mode does not expand what it is allowed to do and that altering anything outside the user’s own system requires the user’s approval first — seemingly intended to limit how dangerous a persistent AI agent could be. The file sits in the shared core of Codex rather than in the code specific to the terminal, seeming to suggest the proactivity feature is intended for more than the command line tool.
OpenAI is testing a new “Persistent mode” for Codex that would let the agent keep working until explicitly “put to sleep,”
The preferred phrase is, “sent to a farm upstate.”
They set us up the AI!
Who read the summary and immediately thought of Disney’s “The Magician’s Apprentice?”
Ring says TAKE uses unique, rotating encryption keys for your footage, stored in a secure enclave and accessible only under strict conditions — based on the features you enable on your account. Currently, footage captured by Ring cameras is encrypted in transit to the cloud and at rest, and then decrypted for Ring to process for those smart features. With TAKE, the encryption keys change for every five minutes of footage. Ring stores copies of those keys to decrypt the footage, but throws away each copy within 24 hours, “leaving you with the keys and full control of your videos,” according to Ring.When asked about what happens if Ring is subpoenaed by law enforcement, a spokesperson for the company said: “Where TAKE is enabled, Ring will only be able to provide non-video information (such as basic subscriber information) and encrypted video files in response to the valid legal process. We have updated our Law Enforcement Guidelines to reflect this change.”
TAKE was developed using Messaging Layer Security, an open standard from the Internet Engineering Task Force, according to Ring. The company says it is “inspired by the privacy principles of E2EE (end-to-end encryption),” which Ring offers on some of its cameras. However, the two systems work differently. With E2EE, Ring never has the keys and can’t process your video for cloud-based features. Both options are available on newer cameras that encrypt on-device, and you can switch between the two. Older cameras encrypt at cloud ingress and only support TAKE.
According to a white paper the company published today, Ring’s copy of those keys is managed inside an AWS Nitro Enclave, to which Ring’s access is restricted by “access controls, cryptography, and hardware isolation.” The company claims there is no persistent storage and no way for a Ring employee to access it. The stored keys can only be unlocked by the enclave through cryptographic attestation that proves it’s running the exact software image Ring approved. The enclave releases a temporary key when an enabled service requests it.
Wow, a couple more changes like this and RING uses will have almost as much rights as people that do not connect their hardware to other company’s businesses.
Sure you do. Just like the USPS deletes their scans for routing instead of sending them to the feds
Companies should, in general, avoid keeping any user data one second longer than they legitimately need it. Data should be viewed as a liability more than an asset, and every company that achieves significant scale with user data soon realizes this, though some take longer than others to learn the lesson.
The reason it’s a liability is because it exposes the company to an endless stream of warrants and subpoenas, and contrary to popular belief, the government does not pay for that data. In some cases the government might pay a portion of the expenses the company incurs in responding, but it’s always still a net loss, and most of the time the government just shows up with a court order and says “Hand it over or be held in contempt of court”. What makes it even worse is if companies actually want to be good stewards of the data and not hand over more than they should, they’ll often get overly-broad requests and then have to go to court to fight to narrow or quash the requests.
This all gets very expensive. It’s just a cost of doing business… but it’s a cost that can be avoided if you don’t have and can’t get the data.
Encrypt everything, and arrange to destroy the keys when you no longer need the data is the best way to do it, too. Scrubbing large databases quickly and effectively is hard. Deleting a set of AES keys is a lot easier. This also means that you can focus your internal access controls on controlling which systems and employees can get the keys.
I’d encourage Ring to find ways to close the window of access even more.
If your packages were walking off, or people repeatedly were crashing into your parked cars in your driveway (that has happened to me no less than 4 times), you’d probably want to put up a camera, too.
No less than fou…OK, if you don’t have a PPV livestream set up by the end of this sentence, you’re doing it wrong. Pass the popcorn and the 12-guage packing box triggers.
Hell, at this point I’d be half okay with installing a God damned Flock camera pointed at my driveway.
OK, let’s not get all crazy now. Orwell is already up to 18,000RPM in the grave. Bastards saw his heat signature from space and decided to put it to use. He now powers a series of 144 Flock cameras. Fucking gross. I know.
I worked at Amazon for 9 years, and security of customers’ data is the top priority. I could literally access Jeff Bezo’s personnel file with lower permissions than I could access your purchase history or your Ring or Alexa data. We had to complete a refresher course on data protection every year.
Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents [including Claude, OpenAI’s Codex, and Nous Research’s Hermes]. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to live malware.“The trust model is broken,” Alon Hertz, one of the researchers, wrote in an interview. “Agents treat vendor docs as ground truth and don’t question them — and neither do the humans supervising them. Agentic AI usage is exploding, and agents are spreading across every layer — SaaS, cloud, endpoint. As they multiply, so does the supply-chain surface, and today’s guards don’t cover it.”
The potentially dangerous content is in llms.txt and llms-full.txt files, an emerging convention websites employ to provide machine-readable summaries of the site’s content and its high-level structure. These files are the AI equivalent of the robots.txt standard that instructs search engines how to index the site’s content. Google Lighthouse, a tool for helping web developers, has more here. Correctly configured llms.txt and llms-full.txt files for Cloudflare are here and here.
Notice the narrative’s attempt to divert blame toward the Web at large: “It’s not our fault; your ‘misconfigured site’ is the problem.” In the real world, the LLM industry bears the onus for piping together arbitrary execution locally to arbitrary input over HTTP.
Any attempt to claim otherwise is a distraction. Disregard it.
Foreign-produced “bulk power” equipment is now effectively banned, and the list of what constitutes such equipment is essentially everything used to make up the grid… much of which we are heavily dependent on foreign sources to supply.In a Wednesday executive order, President Trump said foreign supply of electric equipment “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat” to national security. The Hill reports:
Under the order, it will be up to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, in coordination with other officials, to determine whether a piece of equipment poses an issue. The order could impact a wide range of equipment, including substations, transformers, batteries used for energy storage, generators, turbines, software and more. It does not lay out specific threats or single out any country by name.
[…] Under the last Trump administration, the president put a similar order in place. The new order comes amid several reported cyberattacks on U.S. water systems, which officials suspect have links to Iran, according to The New York Times.
Democrats are too dumb to play back his words and remind people we’re supposed to be in a golden age.
JFC, what more do you think the Democrats could do? There was nothing but “Orange Man will destroy this country” from them before the election if anyone would have fucking listened.
Forty-plus years of Fox News gaslighting, FUD, moral panics, and outright lies means that there is a large group of people who will consistently vote against their own interests in the name of “owning the libs”. Constant drumbeat of “libruls bad” and thorough sanewashing of orange man and the GOP’s policies made these people deaf to what the Democrats were saying. Maybe the pain they’re feeling from getting screwed over can make them hear again.
He’s been doing drastic shit for two years and it’s not improved things for anyone except billionaires.
It all makes perfect sense when you understand one thing: he’s doing it for himself. The billionaires just happen to benefit from those same policies too.
Next up will be a “national emergency” to prevent or disallow the results of the general election.
Tell me again how badly America needs to pass the SAVE Act.
No, no. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Doubling down with long-TDS worked out great. I think Democrats should triple down next time.
That’ll really teach ‘em.
And pay no attention to those screaming at you for tossing the ball back through your own goalposts. They’re just jealous.
What the hell does any of this even mean?
The issue isnt the components, those are simple. The issue is a huge amount of this equipment is bespoke, and the facilities and expertise are gone in the US to make them (GE has a facility theyve tried to rapidly grow, but itll be nowhere near enough for quite a while). With the explosion in datacenter growth and accompanying power infrastructure the lead time on equipment is five to ten years. Theres alternatives being developed domestically that are mass-producable that use some clever new techniques to remove the bespoke aspects of the equipment, but it’ll be probably another 10 years before that tech is proved out in grid trials and starts scaling.
As someone who’s job is deep in the thick of grid planning, id say the concern here is legitimate but the ship has sailed. This is one of the many things that never should have been allowed to be offshored, but since it was the realities on the ground just dont support an executive order in this form. The kind of targeted, government subsidized intervention Biden did with chips and transformers and all kinds of other infrastructure is the smart way to handle these issues. This is the dumb way. We should give the half dozen companies working on the next generation of this technology government funding to accelerate, while sucking up as much foreign production of the current generation as we can. What trump is doing is instantly kneecapping growth while aiming our sights backwards instead of forwards.
Suppose your kids figure out that if they ask you permission you’re likely to say no. So they just say “oh, it’s an emergency, there’s no time to ask permission, I need to make a decision right now” and go and do whatever they want.
That’s why Trump keeps declaring emergencies. The US has so many emergency acts that the president can give himself most powers, including ones that are explicitly forbidden in the US constitution, just by saying “it’s an emergency” in an executive order. It’s also not just Trump. No president since Roosevelt has been able to resist using emergency powers.* Trump’s currently got fifty some on the go.
* Ford, Johnson, Kennedy and Eisenhower didn’t make new emergencies, but they did continue their predecessors’.
In an update posted on the Playdate help site this week, Panic noted that it has finally “begun to receive refunds of the tariffs we paid in the last year” and had consequently “refunded all tariffs charged to customers.”
In the initial version of that tariff note, Panic explained that it couldn’t afford to simply “absorb” the 19 percent tariffs it was being charged to import Playdate hardware made overseas because “our margins on Playdate are low.” As such, while the tax was in effect, it was passed along to customers as an explicit subtotal line item at the bottom of all Playdate orders. That’s in contrast to companies like Nintendo, which vaguely cited “market conditions” and tariff “uncertainty” in raising the asking price of legacy hardware and some Switch 2 accessories last year.
Speaking to Game Developer, Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser said filing paperwork to claw back these taxes and processing tariff refunds for customers took a fair bit of backend work. Still, he said returning that money to Playdate purchasers in the end was a no-brainer. “It’s just not our money to keep, and it felt really good to give it back,” Sasser said. “That’s an easy way to know you made the right decision.” “It just felt like the right thing to do,” Panic wrote in a refund email message shared on Reddit.
Google is your friend.
Should I Google ‘journalist’ first, or has that already been replaced with ‘fuck off and do it yourself’?
Ah, the hallowed honorary halls of Fine Journalism..don’t we look forward to bestowing them with the great delusionists of the laziest decade ever..
Google is your friend.
I googled playdate panic and got your mom’s number.
With a product named Playdate, and not much else to go on, I couldn’t tell if the article was safe to read at work, or do a web search.
It would have been quite easy to start the summary with:
> Panic, creator of the tiny, handheld game system Playdate, is refunding customers the 19% tariff charges it passed along…
Tariffs are a tax collected by business for the government. Since Trump is the one who gave the illegal order, he would be responsible, but since the Supreme Court has ruled a president is untouchable, nothing will be done.
If completed, the acquisition would put one of the most widely used platforms for sharing and working with open-source AI models under Nvidia’s ownership, expanding the chipmaker’s reach further into the software and model ecosystem. Siddy Jobe, a fund manager at Eonopolis Exponential Technologies funds, said it made sense for Nvidia to target a company like Hugging Face, as Nvidia has made it clear that it is not looking to discriminate between closed and open-source models.
“I think Nvidia is very much a community, a platform-based company, and in that respect, I think Hugging Face fits perfectly within that. There is this five-layer cake from Nvidia, and foundational models are one of them,” Jobe told CNBC’s Squawk Box Europe on Thursday. “It is clear that Nvidia wants to be integrated in the entire stack vertically, going from energy to foundational models and also to applications,” he added.
The bubble continues to inflate, and when it pops, it will get VERY ugly. Worse than 2008, that’s for sure.
Hugging Face is also acquiring Nvidia with the 13 Billion they gained by being acquired by Nvidia.
(20th Century Corruption) “Hey, we’ve got this Ponzi thing, but we kinda need to keep it hush hush..”
(21st Century Corruption) “Ever get naked and slap an Insider Trading dildo across Wall Streets face? Hold my beer and get ready to livestream this mothafuckin’ IPO..”
It’s a website that host open AI models that you can run on your own computer. I’ve grabbed a couple models from there. Produced some neat stuff locally just to see what it could do. If I had more video ram, I’d likely be able to do even more.
With that said, these models are becoming slimmer and more powerful all time. You can do a lot more locally today then even a year ago, with precisely the same hardware. Of course, hardware costs have shot up over the past 3 years to absurd levels, so that’s not helping the situation.
Still, I’d rather be able to run AI models locally and not have to rely on the foundational models (the massive online ones that cost) for every day stuff unless I had to.
For me, it’s just something to mess around with but it’s still neat.
It is concerning that Nvidia is buying them but then again, nvidia sells shovels for the gold rush, so there’s a chance it could get even better. Of course, I imagine OpenAI is backstage whispering to weaken this platform so people are beholden to them instead. That’s the real fear.
LOL
" Anthropic refused to allow the government to use its Claude AI model for fully autonomous lethal weapons or domestic mass surveillance, resulting in Hegseth accusing the company of “arrogance and betrayal”. "
It’s amusing to watch these AI companies pretend to be the " good guys " who adhere to strict morals, ethics and rules. :|
Even IF they start out that way, Google has shown us all to well what they will likely become.