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Imagine a world where your toothbrush could give you tips about dental hygiene - or advertise toothpaste. What a time to be alive!
Interestingly that's $5 million less than the the movie Interstellar cost to make.
Wow. The wikipedia page has a nice list with links to videos:
A big fraction of a senior executives' work can also be delegated to others in the company (or outside consultants and services), the thing that can't is being ultimately responsible for making the final decisions - product, people, direction etc.
Is this much difference from a combat mission being written up and soldiers being promoted/awarded medals.
The point of this is to see who is successful and what drones/weapons are the most effective. With a limited budget and much larger enemy it comes down to kills per dollar.
> The allocation changes regularly, but as of June 2025, Business Insider reported that destroying a tank was worth eight points. A multiple launch rocket system counted for 10. Killing a regular Russian soldier earned 12 points. Wounding a drone pilot was valued at 15 and eliminating him netted 25. In the final step, the payoff, units use the points they’ve earned to purchase equipment—drones, drone jamming devices, ammunition, and other goods—on Brave1 Market, an online shopping platform not unlike Amazon.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarjacoby/2025/09/19/kyivs-e-...
Although 9 days later:
> Archaeologists believe no Spitfires buried in Burma
On my Pro 16 it has its ups and downs - I still can't get it to "play my running playlist on shuffle" whilst running (this is the only thing I used Siri for before the beta and it would improve my life immeasurably if it worked). But it responds to things like "how long will it take to drive to the AirBnb booking in my inbox", and "when is X playing a concert in Y - add a calendar entry with details" perfectly.
This is a beta and I have hopes, but I can imagine it will run better on a 17 and later
The monthly plans are heavily subsidized by the API users - why should Anthropic subsidize your use of pi.dev?
Neither of which have been great commercial successes. Open source LLM's and VR devices have have been cool products for HN readers, but haven't made much impact on the public or Meta's revenue.
Whilst Instagram and Facebook Ad revenue is coming in it means Zuckerberg could spend billions pivoting the company to country and western themed steak houses and the share holders wouldn't (couldn't) do anything about it.
Am I being too naive to assume that legitimate book clubs shouldn't be doing this anyway - or is all online activity just a way of generating income now?
Not sure if you mean nobody wanted to develop mRNA flu vaccines, but at least Moderna and Pfizer are:
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5863570/flu-vaccine-mrn...
Although the US Government is funding 2 new coal power plants.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-announces-850m-moderniz...
A 75-MW data center in Mäntsälä has provided 2/3 of the heat for the town (2,500 homes) for a decade [2]
1. https://www.creatingsustainablecities.org.uk/post/case-study...
2. https://www.sustainabilitymenews.com/waste-management/how-fi...
> “What we have right now is this ginormous ongoing outbreak of Sporothrix brasiliensis in Brazil,” Lockhart, a senior adviser at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Although many will be long term believers who won’t sell. I can’t see how this couldn’t deflate the share price further
https://www.qantas.com/en-vu/onboard/fleet/a350
https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/stories/2026-06-countdown...
Leave 9am Sydney arrive 10pm London (8pm in northern hemisphere winter)
And thats for gov.uk sites - they're websites where you mostly go to do something rather than browse for interesting content. I'd guess social media, local news and sites with cat videos would get more shares.
https://foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-06/BP...
> Healthier food remains nearly twice as expensive per calorie as less healthy food, and the gap is widening.
> Households with children in the lowest income quintile would need to spend 85% of their disposable income on food to afford the Eatwell Guide.
> Fast-food outlets make up 1 in 4 places to buy food in England, rising to over 1 in 3 in the most deprived areas.
> In an average English Reception class of 30 children, three will be living with obesity. In Year 6, this more than doubles to seven children.
> 10-year-olds from the most deprived backgrounds are over 1.5 times more likely to have short stature.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/industrial/boa...
> To start his own company, Boschert knew he’d have to leave his 50-hours-per-week job at Microwave Associates in Sunnyvale, Calif. The ultimate motivator came when he became the custodial parent of his children. Boschert Inc. was formed in 1970 as he entered the consulting field. “I was designing power supplies to make money so we could eat,” he says.
There's no sign that highly intelligent people can't be conned - Bernie Maddoff fooled leading scientists and CEOs working in finance. Software engineers and lawyers fall for pig butchering schemes and spoofed emails with altered bank details every week - so why would an AGI trained from human content be any different.
Perhaps people like this should be called "Bot Kiddies" or "Agent Kiddies" - in a similar way to "Script Kiddies" for 'hackers' using/doing stuff they don't quite understand
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/who-knew-but-sheep-pref...