Just guessing here, but perhaps the author was OK with having the books be free on Kindle readers but not OK with less proprietary formats that would easily allow them to be placed in open on-line libraries that are frequently gobbled up by AI bots as training data? Of course, there's nothing stopping someone from converting DRM-free AZW3 files to EPUB or PDF themselves but security by obscurity works surprisingly well for lazy people.

So why didn't Microsoft buy up ram while it was cheap too? They should have had a far clearer picture of how AI datacenter build-outs would affect ram prices than Sony since they are deeply connected with OpenAI.

>>Not sure what value I'd put on Discovery, etc., either. Those carriage fees can't be growing, and that $4/mo streamer Roku keeps pitching can't be that big...

Ellison/Trump wants CNN so they can turn it into another right-wing propaganda outlet like Fox News. They've already decided which anchors to get rid of.

A bidding war over legacy media is like Titanic passengers fighting over who gets the last deck chair. Whoever wins will probably lose in the end. They will pay too much, have no money left to actually create new content, raise subscription fees to pay for the debt, lose subscribers as a result. In 5 years or less, what's left will be up for sale again.

They are hell-bend on extracting as much after-sale money as they can by turning features into "services" with monthly subscription fees.

>>European leaders have spent years warning that the continent risked falling behind the U.S., China and Russia in the global contest for economic, technological and military dominance

US and China? Sure, Europe is lagging behind them. But Russia? Economically they have nothing going for them but oil, and militarily they needed help from North Fucking Korea with an invasion that should have taken 2 weeks but has dragged on for over 3 years with no end in sight. It's a paper tiger.

>>The ozempic-gupling Nazi escapades are among the least significant factors in determining demand.

Maybe not in the US but in Europe and other places (where rebates for EVs are still in place) the drop in Tesla sales is 100% Elon-based.

I'm sure an American carmaker would never stoop so low.

or just claim that the driver didn't deliver the full amount (who's gonna believe some immigrant driver). There are so many ways to game this I can't believe it's even being suggested.

Strippers don't like it when you put coins in their g-string. Too cold and they fall out too easily.

The US also has an oversupply of EV (at least a certain type of EV). Musk had to make his other companies buy surplus cybertrucks to make Telsa's bottom line look better. I guess Chinese and American carmakers aren't that different after all.

HR departments have expanded because they are able to do the mundane tasks that managers are supposed to be doing (hiring, firing, evaluations, settling employee disputes, etc), leaving the managers more time for higher level tasks like three martini lunches and golf junkets.

>> It took the US nearly 30 years to recover from the WW2 debt.

Did you mean the UK? Because the US was booming in the 50s and 60s. 30 years after WW2 was when things in the US started getting bad again but that was mostly due to the oil crisis.

>>The new device -- designed for students, businesses and casual users -- will target people who primarily browse the web, work on documents or conduct light media editing, according to people familiar with the matter.

This could sell well to K-12 schools but I can't see any businesses being interested and casual users are probably better off with an iPad.

It was never even about bots that much. Deciphering distorted text was actually training AI to read poorly scanned documents. Clicking traffic lights and bikes was training AI to analyze photographs. AI doesn't need our help for those tasks any more so those "bot tests" have disappeared.