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khurson Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

>H100 is nearing five years and costs more to buy a used one now than a new one when it was released :)

Because everyone is buying as they want to run their own models and not pay for a cloud service?

khurson Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

sorry, my error. Bonds was $31.5 billion

https://www.reuters.com/business/alphabet-sells-bonds-worth-...

khurson Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

Meta entering cloud at scale would see huge competition and lowering of profit margins.

khurson Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

>and yet they earned enough to shrug it off.

Zuck has 60% voting power, otherwise he would have been fired over metaverse and then model delays

khurson Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

Are you clicking on more ads now or less. Are you using google search more now or less.

I'm using it a lot less.

Don't think Google can point to past revenue an indicator of future revenue, they need to establish new streams of revenue.

khurson Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

Thanks for this informative post. Many have been puzzled as to why Google keeps claiming search isn't affected by chat apps, when clearly it is.

khurson Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

That $85 billion was bonds, and requires ongoing repayments of billions every year in interest payments

And then the $85bn to be repaid too.

khurson Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

How does this spend affect Google CEO's $692 Million potential pay? Is it meeting the required goals or taking him away from them?

https://fortune.com/2026/03/10/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-692-...

khurson The startup's Postgres survival guide

I don't do this.

I find that most ID's in majority of tables are internal and only used for internal joins, so I use v7

The tables where the uuid will be sent to the client e.g. UserId etc, I also store an external_id of v4.

Much rather have a static column than continually convert.

khurson Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

Thank you

khurson Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

Can someone ELI5 this?

Is this a breakthrough of something or 'kinda interesting'?

khurson Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

Yes.

khurson OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

This story has been headline news in many news sites today. So huge amount of free publicity for OpenAI.

khurson So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

91.5% Gross margin :)

https://investor.redditinc.com/news-events/news-releases/new...

khurson So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

If you use DuckDuckGo and use the video search, you can watch many YouTube vids embedded

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rickastley&ia=videos&iax=videos

Fun fact: some countries have no YouTube ads, so if you use Tor/VPN to change to an ad free country, then can watch ad free without an adblocker.

khurson So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

Same with many/all news paper website comments, there is a preferred narrative that is controlled.

khurson So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

Reddit has licensing deals with OpenAI and Google, so is likely trying to keep other AI companies out

https://mediaandthemachine.substack.com/p/reddits-new-ai-lic...

khurson Laguna S 2.1

chat as listed on that page: https://chat.poolside.ai

khurson ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space

>I thought it was risky to leave a phone plugged in all the time

I have had phones on a charging dock for long periods. No issues.

Unless you have some budget small brand phone that was too cheap to be true, most phones are fine plugged in.

khurson Advertise in ChatGPT

I just clicked on an ad in ChatGPT mobile app.

As per the press release, it opens up a screen which takes up 90% showing the new site.

It's not a good browsing experience, as it's not a 100% full screen so smaller on an already small phone screen. Couldn't see a 'open in browser' option.

khurson Advertise in ChatGPT

The google ad revenue and Meta ad revenue is hundreds of billions a year.

They have behavioural experts who know how mainstream minds work and how to manipulate.

Remembers ads are predominately not for the educated and intelligent, that type of person will think critically. People who are more naive are the golden gooses

khurson France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027

Most countries don't prepare for earthquakes. Only countries that get earthquakes do.

YAGNI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it

khurson Advertise in ChatGPT

IPO has been delayed to 2027

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/openai-con...

khurson Advertise in ChatGPT

If a user clicks on one ad, OpenAI makes a tiny bit of money. If a user clicks on 10 ads, OpenAI makes 10x the money.

This incentive is inevitably going to lead to ad supported LLM's not answering questions properly the first time so more ads served.

I am guessing in voice mode they will also have voice ads.

khurson VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide

A testament to how tech has come along, first you needed complex equipment, then Adobe released a home animator thing which needed a webcam and was paid.

And now anyone with a phone https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i2hpLm9CEVU

khurson Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone

All these seem to be by the same person.

Go Greg!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman

http://www.kroah.com/linux/

khurson UK appoints Secretary of Justice with no Law qualifications or legal experience

Not necessarily a bad thing, as there is a conflict of interest where the person is qualified. Because in a few years they will be unelected out and back working as a law practitioner.

So making changes which are unpopular with the Judiciary is easier for a person who isn't legally qualified. As long as their legal advisors are up to scratch.