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Is this unavoidable? I mean it does generate clicks and views and user engagement so if one platform is doing it, doesn't that automatically mean that the other has to do it? Otherwise they will continuously lose market share.

> I mean it does generate clicks and views and user engagement so if one platform is doing it, doesn't that automatically mean that the other has to do it? Otherwise they will continuously lose market share.

Why? User engagement isn't the same thing as market share.

If McDonald's trained its cashiers to insult you while taking your order, engagement would go up, and market share would go down.


I think the burden to curate your feed so that you do not have such content is now resting with the user and they cannot rely on the platform to do it for them.

This assumes the platforms either allow such curation or respect it, which instagram and TikTok famously don’t

If the user even wants to do that. Why would they? They're looking for a sugar rush, they're not looking to eat their intellectual vegetables. How do you get children to eat vegetables?

"They" being others, but definitely not you right? Those people...

Except there's no way to do this on those platforms.

I hate ads too but whats the outrage? Did people expect it to be free forever? Everything else has ads. youtube, instagram, x, google etc. etc.


I agree. It is either ads, or Anthropic way (which is: you are too poor to use our ChatBot). There is no other way to pay the > $1 trillion per year CapEx for building these chat bots.

Would there be other way? Sure, it could be government-funded, like our public school system. But it is not possible in current political climate.

Money doesn't grow on trees, and tokens cost a lot of money. There will be divide into people who can afford these tokens and people who cannot. I feel it is better to have ways to let people who cannot afford these tokens to have some ways to try it.


This impacts a non-free plan; their $8/month plan now has ads too.


You can't trust a product that uses ads, because then you are the product.


how? i trusted google and youtube and it works out pretty fine for me. same with any other service that has a free ad supported tier.


For many people, that's a risk they're willing to take for free stuff.


Any details regarding valuations etc?


>Rocket company boosts valuation to $1tn and pays $250bn to acquire AI start-up

ft


That’s not really a negative for me as I can easily jump into vscode where I already have my workspace for coding set up exactly as I like it. This being a completely separate app just to get the agentic work right is a good direction imo


Yeah but its annoying to find the file the agent just edited without any IDE/editor integration, you have to add that command which opens the file in vscode after editing.


It would be nice to have an integrated development environment.


How dare you want your IDE to be integrated!


About 600GB needed for weights alone, so on AWS you need an p5.48xlarge (8× H100) which costs $55/hour.


"Venezuela has ~2.7× as much proved oil as the UAE (303 / 111 ≈ 2.73)."

Pretty incredible


The big difference is that the oil in UAE is easy to extract and use, the oil in Venezuela isn't.


Looking just at the facts, the action to take over Venezuela seems to be a good decision.

1. Public opinion isn't as important anymore, as Trumpism has found a way to flood the zone with so much shit, they have many more options

2. International environment looks way harsher and less cooperative, stressing the need to gain resources/influence

3. Resource rich, unstable country that has been in the headline and run down for years, right on the doorstep of the US

If they really gain access to all that oil the challenges US hegemony is bolstered up again. Seems low risk high reward. If they give it the facade of legitimacy by installing a local puppet government, they might get away with it.


As expected: "Trump now turns now to oil. He claims the oil business in Venezuela has been a 'bust', and that large US companies are going to go into the country to fix the infrastructure and "start making money for the country"."


There are like 10 of these surge pizza traffic posts from this account every month. And 99% of the time we don’t hear anything happening afterwards so I’m not sure how reliable it is


Very high false positive rate, but low false negative rate.


How could there even be a false negative?


There was an event without and increase of pizza orders I guess?


You could say the same by claiming something will happen every hour.


not a false flag this time. maduros is gone after 13 years.


i understand im just saying that the other 99% of the time this signal leads to nowhere so i would not pay attention to it


There is also movement over of some key people to nvidia which is pretty significant: "As part of this agreement, Jonathan Ross, Groq’s Founder, Sunny Madra, Groq’s President, and other members of the Groq team will join Nvidia to help advance and scale the licensed technology."


curious how the execs can honor the fiduciary duty to share holders assuming only they? get the 20 billion and the company is left headless and leaking all of its intellectual property to Nvidia?


Shareholders get the $20B so that's the fiduciary responsibility fully satisfied.


I'm glad we are moving towards more of quality over speed


I’m sure it’s pure coincidence that the Trump family made millions from Binance, CZ, and donations from Trevor Milton and Paul Walczak right before those pardons.


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