but those were the opportunists only in it for a fat paychec. Like generic "artists" they won't be able to compete with AI anyway.

Microsoft isn't exactly known for it's clean business practices, so that should help.

you're right, but where's the practical difference between having an AI (probably inaccurately) sum up what was said vs. writing personal notes yourself afterwards. You don't need permission for that. Sure, the AI does this for all audio, so there quantity might make all the difference, but from a quality standpoint, I don't see much of a difference.

this is not a recording, just as caching/streaming is not considered "downloading" or listening for a wake word is also not considered "recording". Although both streaming/caching and keeping the mic open for a keyword while caching audio are, in a technical sense, obviously "recordings"

Philip K. Dick only got the part about the mutants wrong.

10% of customer service and 15% of administrative assistants is more than 500.000 persons. Classical conflation of numbers to hide connections - typicalle done by politicians and repeated by journalists with zero knowledge of elementary school mathematics.

the pendulum usually swings anlittle in the other direction at first let's talk about that again in 10-15 years.

I get it that they don't want to antagonize their dear leader, but why does the rest of the world have to see this, even in brackets? It's not like they do that with other places that have multiple names.

You could even do more, because you could watch the street at the same time. This is the VW touchscreen disaster all over again. German automakers have been sleeping for decades, especially at the software front and now they're feeling the pressure. But it's a misconception that young people who want a more contemporary car experience mean "a touchscreen" by it - while their real problems is high manufactoring costs, a lot of out of touch petrolhead managers, overall pricing and crappy software.

because their already overstuffed bloatware doesn't do more than too much (and 3/4 of it badly)? Please, god, no!

I was kind of expecting RAM to go down with a potential bubble burst. But as all major RAM producers have now locked in contracts with a high pricing floor until 2030, I'm not so sure anymore.

yes, there have been some SLAPP suits, but censorship is - like "wokeism" - much more of massively inflated propaganda tool of the far right, than really happening.

But why chose the more hostile DST instead of winter time? Night owls get another permanent disadvantage while larks could just go to bed one hour earlier. That wouldn't hurt as much as people having to work when they are tired.

to get that robot revolution rolling. The rest of "first world" countries might also need thrm soon. Otoh, all those already more than enough who graduated in business and finance will soon need jobs too, because contrary to jobs in the health sector, those will be replaced by AI. Serves anyone who is just in it for the money, right.

True. Criminals just don't care anymore these days.