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They reported they were on track to be profitable this quarter. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mind-blowing-growth-is-about-to-...
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I read the article and it doesn’t say it was used for targeting or prioritizing? > Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s e
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That’s the modern internet. What sells is the most overdramatic doom and gloom take possible.
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Twitter has community notes which fills the role pretty well. If an AI gen tweet goes viral it will get noted pretty fast
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Plenty of big artists like Kanye use AI to experiment with ideas before releasing the full studio recordings. That’s going to become more common. Just like how developers use LLMs to make a POC to test new ideas before putting the hard work
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YouTube music doesn’t seem to care much about where the music comes from. They do have formal album libraries but not everything is carefully sourced and labelled like Spotify. That’s what makes it good, because you can find tons of lost mi
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> If you view this as (for example) something for rich mums to take their kids to school in, then it makes a lot more sense. That’s why Porsche makes their SUVs which are really popular. High end luxury brands should technically be able
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If I'm reading that right this covers all of Meta's state lobbying spending which is $45M + $25M federally and it's not all directly related to this age gating stuff, but general shaping anti-child exploitation policy? > O
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If your goal is to get upvotes on the internet, sure doomposting will be rewarded
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I'd say they should come build them in Canada instead since our energy is cheaper, but anti-industrial development policy and NIMBYism is even more embedded than America, which is probably why no one is bothering.
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There were lots of proprietary database companies in the 70s-90s when they first came out (Oracle, IBM, Sybase, SQL Server), but these days open source databases are the default. Everyone's making so many wild predictions based off the
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Israel used long range air launched ballistic missiles (ROCKS) and cruise missiles, mostly from F15s, to degrade Iran's ancient radar network and S300s (which allegedly weren't moved around much). That was before the invasion, so
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SLS was far from a shoestring budget and both NASA and Boeing/Northrop/etc have equally strong incentive to provide solid coverage for the public to keep the jobs program going. SpaceX has much better infrastructure for video with
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Not just the languages but frontend/user interfaces as well. You can see the potential for the future when using Claude Design->Claude Code->Agents live testing in BrowserOS. It's all modeled on existing humans patterns of u
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I wonder if Apple took part in the project
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> Stopping maintaining and testing support for upcoming versions is cheaper than doing that work. If it’s based on predictions of how some alpha software might turn out in the future then I don’t see how you can claim it’s cheaper. If a
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That's easier to stay that when it's an R&D project doing pilot runs in a small set of cities. When you need tell shareholders you want to run a fleet of 100k cars then those numbers start becoming very serious. Waymo also too
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Cursor is also definitely more popular than Gemini CLI
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The article says they had $5B in losses (half of which was -$2.5B for xAI) but also just signed a $15B/yr contract with Anthropic which would almost double their revenue Anthropic is also allegedly profitable https://www.reu
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That's not how the training data works. It's not just a constant stream of human driving footage with no regard for good or bad performance
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Tesla's already doing it too
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Waymo is talking about scaling up operations globally and the market is competitive, the cost 100% does matter. They need large Chinese production lines for lidar, integration kits for cars plus the in car computing, repair pipelines for bo
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I'm guessing COVID also played a major role. The other narrative around Uber's IPO was gig-work was evil and should be banned, then pandemic hit and everyone started using uber eats constantly. Looking at their revenue growth it s
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That is a very well written proposal, I wish someone wrote that sort of ticket for my software projects
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> so why not Iran and Mozambic too? Iran funds terrorism and conflict that impacts nearly every Muslim country around them and also in US, europe, canada, australia etc If you want to build a bomb for sovereignty's sake, don't
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you're right, looks I mixed up some numbers while googling. their revenue went from 11->53b in 6yrs which was very off from my original comment Which honestly surprises me, Uber was called a VC pump and dump scheme for years on HN b
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> Are you implying the machine taught itself the mathematics to do all this? Are you asking me how LLMs work? The theory proposed by the original commenter was that there could have been some secret training data the model was trained on
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So you think that OpenAI paid some mathematicians to either solve this conjecture problem, or a bunch of related unpublished math related to it, then fed it into an LLM model so they could announce it as being solved by the model? How is th
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Plus Uber's only increased their revenue 11->14B in the last 5yrs. SpaceX has added +$4B since 2024 and have fanciful plans in multiple markets that only a gambler like Musk would risk proposing.
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Yep pretty similar, technically in the UK they can go up to 96hrs if the police just ask a judge for an extension, even without formal charges. So about twice as long as the US's theoretical upper limit. My main concern is the fact the
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