If they optimize though - and this is coming at some point - local AI becomes possible, and their entire business case as a cloud monopoly evaporates. I think they know they're in a race between centralized control, and widespread use and control, and that is what is really driving this.
Readit Newsneffy commented on I know we're in an AI bubble because nobody wants me petewarden.com/2025/11/29... · Posted by u/iparaskev
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neffy commented on The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
Ed Zitron writes about this constantly: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/
All of the big players - Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, Microsoft - are in insane circular financing agreements that would make Enron executives blush.
Feedback loops. Always with the feedback loops.
neffy commented on It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead nytimes.com/2025/10/05/we... · Posted by u/wallflower
> I feel like scrutinizing the industry for a 2-3% error on an obviously difficult problem is exactly why we pay so much in the United States for health care
All research I’ve read on this topic finds that it is the US legal system that causes the crazy prices (incentivizing more testing to cover-your-ass and avoid liability etc.)
Many comparative studies on health care cost and quality use the US military as a proxy, as it is free on the condition that you cannot litigate (very coarsely; it is more nuanced).
The costs for treating US military personel is much closer to other countries (while treatment quality remains equal).
It´s not just the legal system. A lot of US Doctors are typically paid on a piece rate basis, and the medical records systems are extremely fragmented, so there is an incentive to order repeat tests (as you get passed around from specialist to specialist), and no incentive to put the systems in to make that unnecessary.
neffy commented on Hackers strike Harrods in latest UK cyberattack observer.co.uk/news/natio... · Posted by u/dijit
Funny you say this because Scattered Spider is largely made up of Western teenagers, not Russians.
There is a fair bit of grooming going on out there on the private discord channels and similar.
neffy commented on The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers wired.com/story/oral-hist... · Posted by u/rendx
Comparing it to GDP doesn’t seem to make sense. Maybe to government revenue.
No, it does make sense. Most of the purported growth in government spending is just using raw figures, and not correcting for either inflation or monetary expansion. It is a convenient mistake.
neffy commented on An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations huntress.com/blog/rare-lo... · Posted by u/mellosouls
It looks like Huntress is a "install this on your computer and we'll watch over your systems and keep you safe, for sure."
I also find it kind of funny that the "blunder" mentioned in the title, according to the article is ... installing Huntress's agent. Do they look at every customer's google searches to see if they're suspicious too?
It´s also a lot of assumptions. This probably is an attacker - or wannabe at least. But you could be a student or researcher working on a cyber security course looking and for some projects your search flow would look a lot like this.
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Nigeria and Kenya are two very different regions with different spheres of business. I don't know, but I wouldn't expect the English to overlap that much.