The president runs the Executive Branch, one of three theoretically co-equal branches with Congress (Legislative) and the courts (Judicial). Executive Orders (EOs) aren't laws, but they let the president direct federal agencies, though they can be overturned by courts or Congress (if it ever decides to act). EOs have been around forever, but recent presidents Obama, Trump, Biden have leaned harder on them, especially when Congress is gridlocked, corrupt, or broken. Trump didn't invent this playbook he just uses it loudly. The system wasn’t changed, it just looks more like a monarchy when Congress abdicates its role as a check on power.

Why wait? They are slashing now while there is less immediate blowback when their competitors and others in the industry do the same.

The race is who creates ASI first. Energy will be a limiting factor in the near future.

Running DeepSeek on my own hardware was enough for me to see that we probably don't actually need +$7,000,000,000,000 in investment as Altman suggested. Before DeepSeek I and many others took that statement at face value.

Yeah for real. Government transparency is bad for democracy.

Flight attendants trian for this. They douse it with ice and water, put it in a fireproof bag, dump ice in it and put it in the lavatory. Lavatory air is always vented outside.

Now never.

Get the project done on time then. Seriously we are so sick of this shit.

This used to be a thing. 3-2-1 backups. I don't know what happened over the past 20 years where backups stopped being important. More reliable HDDs maybe? Hopefully ransomware has shocked enough people to make them important again.

Those are still two words. Stop gas lighting every one.

Just low doses of freedom with a sprinkle of data harvesting and a dash of communism.

Yes it does. It was pretty obvious when people couldn't buy anything without cash. Despite this some places were too stupid to manually make receipts and log transactions and process them later when things came back online, but other's weren't.

I've dealt with this company since 1999 as a system builder and this was the conclusion that I came to as well.
100% after this is memory-holed it will be the same story even if the FTC smacks them on the wrist a few times.

It's to make more money on pricing tiers.

8GB model $999
16GB model $1299
32GB model $1599
64GB model $1999

You can buy 64GB yourself for around $100, but will have to pay $1000 extra if you want 64GB baked in.

We are in the post accountability era now. Nothing is going to happen.