Recent submissions

Comment · 2 days ago
So why did the US not ban Meta after Cambridge Analytica scandal or Alphabet after the Google Adx and DV360 preferential treatment scandal?

Also most IoT in the US runs Chinese software and I'm not seeing ban for those.

Comment · 2 days ago
Fines are not bans. American software companies are welcome to respect the law any time now. For a US reference, see the recent Meta fines in New Mexico.
Comment · 2 days ago
Europe doesn't ban American on-board software so why would they ban Chinese ones?
Comment · 6 days ago
Yes, because the "smarter tasks" that can't be automated and that become the new job sources don't exist.
Comment · 8 days ago
It's more that Teams is already included in a bundle of actually useful and working software in the form of Microsoft Office.
Comment · 9 days ago
Your government for one with state and federal contracts.
Comment · 10 days ago
That's rich coming from a country who's top AI contender just announced 80B in yearly losses. Looks a lot like a subsidised duopoly to me.
Comment · 11 days ago
They had the same peak as all the tech stock during CoVid. But they are far away from their all time high.
Comment · 11 days ago
Oracle is down -50% in the last 12 months so Larry might be feeling the squeeze already. And that's after firing 20k people in the last year or so.
Comment · 11 days ago
Your link doesn't speak of cancellations only about a certain GW worth of data centres being built but that are not operational.
Comment · 11 days ago
The US has never cancelled as many data center projects as now.
Comment · 11 days ago
Only if CPM can be high enough to counter balance the inference costs.

Current CPM is between $30 and $60 which is x20 to x30 more expensive than alternatives.

Now we have to wait and see if performance is also at least 30x of previous ad targeting.

Comment · 22 days ago
The security model has always been a half-baked afterthought. The initial versions were riddled with vulnerabilities .
Comment · 24 days ago
I'm sure that they stopped. ;)
Comment · 24 days ago
The result is that humanity will progressively become worse at math because no new student will have had to take the steps to figure things out themselves. How long it is possible for society to rely purely on AI math results remains to be decided.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton