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People in business class can buy this laptop. That doesn’t mean the people that buy this laptop fly business class

I'll note that many of the glass blocks they use are available all over, for a few dollars. I bought a few Doric glass blocks, stuck some diffused LED strips below them, and printed a stand/enclosure, all for under $15. Good gift for friends.

The calculus here is more grey than it seems. 'Plant based leather' is largely plastic, while the leather industry (especially around cheap accessories) is made from meat industry byproducts. The hides would be destroyed/trashed otherwise. There's also the durability and biodegradable aspect of leather, over plant-based (let's not even talk about 'vegan leather', which is just vinyl).

Not to say that the leather industry doesn't still contribute money to the meat industry, just that this change reads more as greenwashing than an upgrade.

Switching models is _very_ expensive in compute (you have to rerun everything from the beginning), and highly variable in cost. Cursor tried doing this for awhile, but inconsistent performance/usage means most users turned it off and pick models specifically.

The article mentions this is about a legal requirement, not Anthropic considering adding one. They state they and many others already have one.

Their power needs must be absurdly strict, considering they didn’t want the 12v -> 220v -> 12v loss for an M1 chip.

As models train up the intelligence ladder, many common tasks will hit fully diminished returns, and instead it'll just get progressively cheaper to do that task. But the tasks that AI is capable of doing are also expanding. I'm not sure 'Some tasks don't require the peak of the frontier' is worth worrying about, from an AI finance perspective.

OpenAI has paused training for multiple weeks, and is still working on releasing a full postmortem. This is not getting swept under the rug. A lot of the engineers internally are very worried.

There's been a lot of effort into the writing space, and the models genuinely prefer this style. You can let them iterate on the same idea 100 times, rewrite sentences, determine what works best — and they'll still verb the noun, do rule of 3, and keep the same monotonous structure.

This was true in the ChatGPT era. Now we're in a world with reasoning tokens, where a model can thoroughly plan out the response it wants to make. If anything, it makes the style worse.

> I guarantee you somewhere in their backlog is an item that says "require app store for app installations on macOS"

This has been said for over a decade and it still hasn't happened, and Apple hasn't even tried to do so.

I think a better way to model their approach is to push non-technical users further and further away from the typical .dmg app installation approach, and put hoops up to prevent them from following malicious instructions, like the privacy/security and unverified developer hoops. Mildly annoying for technical users, but near impassable for the tech illiterate. We've been seeing this transition across windows and android for a long time, and it seems to be a net positive, if my family is anything to go by. I spend much less time on tech support now.

> He reported returns of 439% for the first half of 2026

> which posted a loss of 67% in July

So it's still up 44% this year? The article notes this, but seems unnecessarily adversarial against an investor who is still wildly successful.

98.99999%

Yes, they host it on their own infrastructure.