18a is still probably not attracting enough customers.

Apparently, nobody really noticed that. I mean, why would you check the expiration date on a patent in Canada? Surely, a company like Novo Nordisk wouldn't neglect to pay the maintenance fee?

If people are legitimately happy with what they're getting, it ought to tell you something about the oversampled, autotune-ridden crap being pushed these days. If a fake album allegedly released in 1973 (it wasn't) is such a hit that it's getting revenue, imagine what ACTUAL performers could do in 2025 if they learned from that lesson.

Psst, not all of them are:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2025%2F04%2F2...

Corporations can and still do fail. Some spectacularly:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2024%2F12%2F22...

There are some AI tools that can, when prompted, actually undertake fairly complex steps to accomplish a goal, including finding ways to avoid shutting down:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Fte...

If it can go that far, it can certainly download a common chess engine and run it. Assuming it was given network access and permissions necessary.

What's funny is that ChatGPT wasn't able to spawn an instance of a chess engine for its own benefit.

That's ridiculous. The same unions that existed four years ago are still here. Also worthy of note:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2025%2F06%2F11...

That isn't anything to do with biofuel.

Who is "we"? And nobody wants slave labor in an automated future.

Because the subtext matters. JHH is giving the standard 20th century industrialist answer to the question of what automation does to employment. Keep in mind that from ~1970 onward, worker productivity went steadily up while leaving behind their pay.

JHH is promising more of the same, albeit perhaps for white collar employees.

Dario is predicting job loss as a way to promote his business to the sort of people who might enjoy such things. He's more of a reverse luddite than JHH.

Either way it sucks. You get fired or entire job sectors see wage depression for working harder and being more productive. At least one of them (Dario) is willing to say the quiet part out loud.

Sort of:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FUS%2Felon...

Is Trump still going forward with Musk's recommendation to deorbit the ISS in 2027?

Now they need to issue a recall on BeauHD for dupes.

It's still a method to pay for illegal porn and drugs?

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