OpenAI is pretty well established.
I know Lemmy users avoid it, but a lot of people use LLMs, and when most people think LLMs, they think ChatGPT. I doubt the average person could name many or even any others.
That means whenever these people want to use an LLM, they automatically go to OpenAI.
As for to the degree of $300bn, who knows. Big tech has had crazy valuations for a long time.
Oracle recently put out a ridiculously optimistic forecast that had them matching AWS within a handful of years. At first the market loved it.
Now I think people are beginning to realise that was a load of bollocks and that they were just overhyping the stock.
Brand recognition cannot be overstated.
If there was a better-than-YouTube alternative right now, YouTube would still dominate.
If there was a phone OS superior to Android and iOS, they would both still dominate.
If there was a search engine that worked far better than Google, Google would still dominate.
The average person won’t look into LLM reasoning benchmarks. They’ll just use the one they know, ChatGPT.
There are other even more dyslexic-legible fonts that IMO look better
The UK has among the lowest road deaths in the world.
I’m not quite sure why that is (although anecdotally as a pedestrian, you seem to be treated like royalty in the UK in comparison to other places I’ve been - so much as glance at a zebra crossing and cars come to an immediate stop).
Given how UK drivers often use summer tyres year-round, the weather is dark and cool, and the roads are usually damp, you’d logically expect poor results, but we see the opposite.
Perhaps it’s due to the rather strict yearly MOT safety check? Who knows.
Good. Workers rights is something they actually seem to be doing a pretty fantastic job on. Probably due to the union funding lol.
The ECHR is not the EU.
It absolutely did not start here only after Brexit, and it’s absolutely not alien to Britain.
God forbid the state rail company uses state branding.
Good sausage. Nice house.
Well duh, in addition to the whole war crime thing, they aren’t even in Europe.
It’s worth noting that Pressman wasn’t alone in this, he had approval, it was just kept hushed.
I’m going to do something a little different from the rest of the comments here and think about it from a strategic realpolitik perspective: the Federation played an absolute blinder with the phased cloak device. It was a genuine strategic and political masterstroke.
They knew the Romulans, who they signed a treaty with not to develop cloaking technology in exchange for peace, were becoming emboldened and expansionist… they were gearing to break the peace anyway. They knew the Romulans, in their arrogance, thought the treaty held them back. That their agreement to peace was a mistake, and that their empire was suffering because of it.
So the Federation says yes, develop this cloaking tech that is vastly beyond anything the Romulans (or Klingons) have.
The Romulans see it, and they can’t believe it. They can’t believe how woefully outmatched they are.
Suddenly it dawns upon them that breaking the Treaty of Algeron is something they really don’t want to do, and that confrontation is not in their interest.
The Federation then says, so how about this treaty, eh? Should we scrap it, slap this phased cloak on all of our ships, then go to war? Or should we bin this cloak and both agree stick to the treaty? Put yourself in the Romulans’ shoes… what would you do when you’re faced with that choice? The Federation have just given a clear demonstration of their technical prowess… would you want to go up against that? The Romulans had no real choice but to tuck their tail between their legs and put out a statement saying they’re committed to the treaty.
Both parties silently agree that the event didn’t happen. But the Federation comes out of it top dog. Their enemy has been put in their place and knows that a war would not go well for them.
Greens are still a bit bullish on militarism
Lmao what?
The party that wants to defend much of our defence, scrap nuclear weapons, leave NATO?
I’d highly disagree with your assesment. The only people that would think Greens are bullish on “militarism” are those let’s get rid of all of our defensive capability types.
Blame the HDMI consortium. Bastards.
That said, I’m not sure why it’d be a deal-breaker. In 2026 this will be a low-end PC. It’s using a 2 year old laptop GPU that Valve has dumped more power into.
Because TV OEMs are the ones in the HDMI consortium.
You can optionally donate money each month.
They call this a SailfishOS subscription, but in my mind a monthly donation with no strings attached doesn’t really count as a subscription.
You don’t get anything from it directly, it just goes towards software development, funding the forum, etc.
I don’t really think it’s the same.
Micron just became like Samsung. Samsung also doesn’t have a consumer DIY market brand. Companies like Kingston or G.Skill can still buy Samsung/SK-Hynix/Micron’s RAM, there’s been no actual reduction in supply.
If Intel did the same as Micron did, it’d be more like third parties could sell the consumer stuff under their own names (say, the Corsair 5 XYZ), and Intel only sold Xeons directly.
The anger for the RAM shortage should squarely be on OpenAI - they’re the ones who bought 40% of the world’s RAM supply (and not even from Micron, mind you, just Samsung and SK-Hynix) and kicked off panic buying. Maybe throw Nvidia in there for handing them the money to do it.
I don’t like the killing of Crucial, fuck Micron for that, but OpenAI is who triggered the RAM shortage, and Micron is actually the least to blame of the big 3 RAM manufacturers for the issues we’re having.
OpenAI abruptly bought 40% of global supply, and announced it.
Other companies found out about it when OpenAI announced and thought holy shit, if we hadn’t heard of this massive deal, what else haven’t we heard of?!, and so they started panic buying.
On top of that, because of US tariffs and trade restrictions, the Chinese “B-tier” memory companies, who usually buy old machines from the big 3 (SK-Hynix, Samsung, Micron) and sell this lower spec RAM at lower margins, didn’t buy up these machines as much as they usually do. They weren’t sure they’d be able to make a profit given their lower margins, should tariffs suddenly change again or other restrictions get put in place.
On the one hand, I actually think this is a very good thing. Social media is especially damaging to children.
However:
The government says platforms must take “reasonable steps” to keep kids off their sites and use age assurance technologies, such as uploading official ID or facial/voice recognition, but they haven’t specified what technology platforms should use.
I hope the law stipulates that Meta is not allowed to keep this data, or use it for any purpose other than the verification itself. Not for training, not for building a profile on someone, nothing. Unfortunately the article doesn’t elaborate on that.
If they’re allowed to keep that data, then that needs to be addressed immediately. It’d be all kinds of fucked up.
There’s probably a distinction between a Meta account and a Facebook account.
Unless the dataset, weighting, and every aspect is open source, it’s not truly open source, as the OSI defines it.