The tech singularity threat was never real in the sense of the tech itself becoming a superpower.

The threat is the exponential growth and power of a company that has the most resources.

Far before AI will have any real agency of its own, it will be used by a corporation to dominate all industry, all information, etc.

We already have a small handful of groups with majority ownership of almost everything -the investment singularity. They will use their resources to exponentially increase their dominance with AI as their fiduciary duty demands.

Why use chat when there are models specifically trained for translation?

This and the problem in the article are user problems. I'm not saying that the AI space doesn't suck or hasn't gotten worse in many ways, but it's gotten way better in many ways as well. Most of the ways it's gotten worse, besides becoming more restrictive, just require more careful prompting or using models most appropriate for the task at hand.

They just put a cellular chip in it.

The power-editors on Wikipedia are terrible.

Amazon is a big company specifically because people prefer shopping online. No physical store can have all of the inventory options a person wants all in one place.

Brick an Mortars are for service companies where it is a necessity the customer, service provider and any goods are co-located. Most Amazon sales are cheap crap and consumables where no customer service exists or should even be required.

The deepseek distilled models are censored. Have you been able to test the full model locally?

When it comes to big money, government, corporations, etc, never attribute to stupidity what could be malice in disguise.

Lmao. Google is a military product.

More effective to make it death penalty for hosting critical information on systems which aren't patched for known vulnerabilities or using default/weak passwords.

Name a randsomeware or major breach which used a zeroday...

Lol yea, I was already defacto boycotting their games due to how terrible they look.

^^^this 100%

The tech companies get huge incentives for opening offices in different cities. If you've lived in a city that was being considered for a new location of Amazon, Microsoft, etc, then you've seen the news hopefully. The companies promise they'll create # of local jobs, will boost economy by bringing in 'high-paid workers' who will rent expensive apartments and eat at local restaurants, etc. If Amazon doesn't fulfill their expectations, they won't get or continue to get these incentives.

With the number of people Amazon has laid off over the years, and their lack of concern for the publicity of worker conditions, I doubt they give 2F's about just laying people off.

It's not the quicklime or pozzolana, both common ingredients in concrete mixtures, or even the order of operations. The (potentially) new findings were that they mixed it at high-temperatures. This could also be old news, but I've read 100s of papers on concrete in the last few years, and while mixing temperature has been mentioned in relation to curing times, I haven't seen it mentioned that it increases the 'self-healing' ability.

Look up any metric you want or feel like is an indicator of how well the US, it's people, or the government are doing, anything it doesn't matter. (Theglobaleconomy website is one place where you can see graphs, but look anywhere you like)

There is no correlation to any president/party change and any change, from GDP, Nat debt, unemployment, happiness index, human development index, military spending, to women in parliament; again there are hundreds of metrics you can look at, pick anything you like.

I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything other than to look at some performance indicators and ask yourself if maybe worrying about who is president is an XY problem.

Unless you just want to your favorite color to be in office, or some other vanity reason like 'first x president', whatever problem you think needs solving, the president won't solve it.