I first read "AI 'Business Agents' Will Kill SaaS by 2030, Says Microsoft" as "AI 'Business Agents' Will Kill Us by 2030, Says Microsoft" but knew, since it was Microsoft, that it wouldn't happen.

I believe the story to which the parent is referring is this 2017 one: Facebook AI Creates Its Own Language In Creepy Preview Of Our Potential Future.

I'm not sure what your beef is here, that's exactly what they are saying. When they quote "state media" it means that's what the government is saying, that's why they use that term. I could see your complaint if they just quoted something like Russia Today without disclosing that it is state media, but that's not the case here.

My default on YouTube is 1.75x but it just means I get to the ads more quickly.

Obama misspoke, then immediately corrected himself. The "series of tubes" and Guam statements were purely the confident ignorance displayed by so many politicians, but I don't think Obama is one of them. Just for the record, here is the statement referred to:

“Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma. They end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs when, if you, they just gave, you gave, treatment early, and they got some treatment, and uhhh a breathalyzer, or uhh, an inhalator, not a breathalyzer...”

Yep, seems like vaporware. The linked article was very light on details, like cost per kwh stored or round-trip efficiency, both of which are very important when discussing energy storage. Looks like just another "press release project" where the whole point of the "project" is to generate press releases.

What do you think the cost of a shipping container full of CPUs is, versus what it's worth. Shipping is a rounding error when talking about chips.

It hallucinates confidently," one unnamed FDA employee told CNN.

Pretty much sums up the problem with all current LLMs. They aren't only wrong, the answers are phrased so definitively that they sound correct even when they aren't.

Negative leap seconds are rare, it has never happened before. From Wiki:

The leap second was introduced in 1972. Since then, 27 leap seconds have been added to UTC, with the most recent occurring on December 31, 2016.[1] All have so far been positive leap seconds, adding a second to a UTC day; while it is possible for a negative leap second to be needed, this has not happened yet.

Maybe he thinks fast internet connections are like dolls, we should get less and pay more.

“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally. All I’m saying is that a young lady, a 10-year-old girl, nine-year-old girl, 15-year-old girl, doesn’t need 37 dolls,” he told reporters. “She could be very happy with two or three or four or five.”

Just s/dolls/megabits/ and I'm sure you have Trump's opinion on network speeds. No matter the issue, it's about what will make him and his billionaire bribers^W donors more money.

California's grid is not isolated from other states, it's part of the Western Interconnection, one of the 3 major grids in the US - the others being the Eastern and the Texas interconnections. This article is about electricity wholesale markets and pricing, not how grids are interconnected. California already brings in a bunch of power from throughout the west. For example, the Pacific DC intertie is a 3.1 GW transmission line that brings hydro power from the Columbia river to southern California.

Of course they didn't have wood, that is a back store.

Hal Kitzmiller: I buy all my furniture at an ergonomics store.
Elaine Benes: Oh, those places have the stupidest names, like Back in Business or Good Vertebrations.
Hal Kitzmiller: Not this one. It's called the Lumbar Yard.

This has been going on for a long time, the headline/summary make it sound like this is something new. Kurzgesagt did a recent video on this, How Nuclear Flies Protect You from Flesh-Eating Parasites

From Tesla Model 3 Service Manual

The cooling system contains an ethylene glycol (phosphate and nitrate free) based coolant.

FTFS:

"I was promised tech would make everything easier so I could enjoy life," author Brittany Moone said. "Now it's leaving me all the dishes and the laundry so AI can make the art."

That's funny, I saw that exact same sentence a while ago but not from Brittany Moore. It's almost like she trained on SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK! Now she's passing it off as her own, no attribution at all! That's what artists are so pissed off at AI about, right? Why aren't they all calling for Ms. Moore's head?