Intel is reportedly grossly overloaded when it comes to middle management. Lip Bu Tan is gutting team-level management.

Say what? They got slaughtered last quarter and posted grim guidance for q2. Their YoY gains are pathetic to negative.

AMD has Intel completely by the balls. The only thing left for AMD is to take marketshare leadership, which they will do when it suits them (they like high margins and don't give a fuck about budget parts right now).

They don't make their own dGPUs, or at least not the silicon. Not sure who does the board assembly or if they use their own packaging facilities, but odds are good those are farmed out to other parties.

They're losing money and cutting entire product divisions. And their fabs are in trouble.

18a is still probably not attracting enough customers.

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.

It's the accountability I wonder about.
As I understand it, officers in the Army Reserve are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), and it does not matter if the behavior happened while off duty or not in uniform.
This means they can be demoted, fined or imprisoned for things such as "conduct unbecoming an officer", and it does not matter if the behavior happened while off duty or not in uniform.

The offense of “conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman” is based on the idea that officers are expected to possess certain moral attributes that make them fit to lead. For example, an officer who is dishonest, unfair in his treatment of others, indecent, indecorous, lawless, unjust, or cruel should not be leading our nation’s sons and daughters.

examples:
knowingly making a false official statement;
dishonorable failure to pay a debt; cheating on an exam;
opening and reading a letter of another without authority;
using insulting or defamatory language to another officer in that officer’s presence or about that officer to other military persons;
being drunk and disorderly in a public place;
public association with known prostitutes;
committing or attempting to commit a crime involving moral turpitude;
and failing without good cause to support the officer’s family.

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.