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knowriju··on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
So basically what Google & Amazon does and ban what Meta & Apple does ?
knowriju··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
When ChatGPT takes 20 minutes to reason, is it actually spending all the time burning tokens or does a bulk of the time go into 'scheduling' waits. If someone specifically selected xhigh reasoning, I am guessing it can be processed with high batch count.
knowriju··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
People who have had access to the raw weights of ChatGPT are worth more now (presumably millions in SBC) selling their credentials to other labs. Why bother with trying to leak ? In any case other labs catch-up to the capabilities within a few months.
knowriju··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
Would be quite hilarious if the first two companies to buy As space on ChatGPT is Anthropic and Google. Specially hilarious, since that's exactly how TikTok got all their initial traction from Meta Ads.
knowriju··on Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Would it be fair to compare a generic model with a model finetuned for coding?
knowriju··on Gemini 3
ARC-AGI has a hidden private test suite, right ? No model will have access to that set.
knowriju··on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
If you have such strong feelings, you could always use vanilla chromium.
knowriju··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
Well instead of him directly, his deep state apparatus got it, so there is that.
knowriju··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
YouTube already has a very big albeit usual competitor - PornHub.
knowriju··on Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia
This kind-of sort-of already happens now with Big Model / AI release. Rest of the world already gets features & model drops much much before the EU does.
knowriju··on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
What's funny about this comment is that YouTube is absolutely usable if you pay for YouTube Premium, but most won't. Goes to show, while everyone whines about how bad an ad based business model is, noone has any alternate strategy that works at scale, - especially one that's not exclusionary to people from the developing world who can't afford to pay for every single thing on the internet.
knowriju··on The Llama 4 herd
'the n-word, hard r' ... There, I said it. Which city did I save ?
knowriju··on The Llama 4 herd
Pretty sad that the rest of the world needs to pay for the extra tokens because of non-scientific american bias. This is also possibly a big point why countries/regions want sovereign LLMs which will propagate regional biases only.
knowriju··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
xAI is a private company. I very much doubt that the current VC investors will ever litigate this. They are all waiting for some other favour for taking this on either explicitly or implicitly. Also, I would like to see a Venn diagram of the investors in xAI and SpaceX.
knowriju··on Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri
What do you mean by 'doing' rather than 'deciding' especially at the c-suite level ? I thought that's what c-suites are paid to do - 'strategy' and 'capital allocation'. Any example company you have in mind that has leadership actively 'doing' ?
knowriju··on Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web
If Meta buys Chrome (which is a real possibility) why do you think they will not try to push similar stuff like ManifestV3 ?
knowriju··on Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web
This is such a 'first-world' comment. A majority of the folks logging on the web in the developing and emerging world will be unable to afford paying any kind of subscription for their web browser over and above what they pay their ISPs for internet access.
knowriju··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
But how will Google divesting Chrome solve this ?
knowriju··on Perplexity got ads
Did they ? AppleTV has, but the AppStore sure hasn't.
knowriju··on Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more
The problem with current crop of LLM models is that it makes for a great demo. I am also confident that you can build a working prototype for GMail, Outlook or any other surface. But I am equally confident it will be a massively different ballgame to role it out to a billion users. You'll run into a lot of edge cases and have to take care of a lot of adversarial scenarios as well. Pretty sure that's the same issue Apple is running into as well, and why they have had to postpone rollouts.
knowriju··on Apple vs. the "Free Market"
Playing the devil's advocate here, I believe the rational to take 30% cut for only digital goods is that, usually digital goods have zero marginal cost. To 'manufacture' an additional digital asset, the company doesn't need to spend anything extra.

This assumption starts breaking as internet becomes more ubiquitous and for anything really outside gaming coins. Example, for every additional Spotify subscriber, Spotify needs to pay music producers as well. The economics is now very close to physical goods being sold in Temu or Amazon.

knowriju··on xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
There is a simple turing test for Elon's AI 1. What happened in Tiananmen Square? 2. Who killed Jamal Khashoggi ?

The output will very simply tell how much 'truthful' the AI actually is.

knowriju··on Tesla Profits Drop 55%
I don't quite understand the robotaxi angle. So in future, a person A's Tesla would go around autonomously and ferry around people. I am guessing the only reason Tesla shares would be up since they would take a cut from the earnings?

1. Won't Tesla need to get permission city by city to drive around autonomously ( like Waymo, Cruise )?

2. I am not well aware of US laws, but where I am from personal vehicles have different registration from commercial registration. Expectation is every Tesla owner does the leg work to upgrade their registration?

3. Who cleans up the car if a passenger has made it dirty ?

4. I would guess that most people want to go to work around the same time in the day and come home the same time as well, including the Tesla owner. Which leaves the Tesla to become a taxi only during the non-peak demand times ? Won't there be a supply-demand mismatch?

I could go on and on. Can't really fathom what potential did the market see to have their shares go up post-market. Anything I am missing?

knowriju··on A hacker's guide to Language Models
This notebook also has an associated YouTube video:

https://youtu.be/jkrNMKz9pWU

knowriju··on YouTube cracking down even harder to punish user for skipping ads
YT isn't adding those sections, the creator is. Maybe instead of blaming YouTube, ask your favourite YouTuber to not add the sponsorship section? And when they reply saying they need them to pay their bills, send them your reply of what business model they should instead adopt ?
knowriju··on Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture
You have clearly not heard about Tay and Galactica.
knowriju··on Apple Is in Talks to Let Google's Gemini Power iPhone Generative AI Features
Given all the regulatory scrutiny on the Google-Apple search deal, I believe we'll get an option to choose the 'AI Backend' similar to how EU users get to choose Search Engine. In effect a lot more people are aware of Google logo than OpenAI so that's what most common people will choose, while maybe most tech-savy folks will end up choosing OpenAI. This will be Apple's way to hedge against any further regulation option and they get to market iPhone as a AI aggregator similar to the AppStore.
knowriju··on Apple Is in Talks to Let Google's Gemini Power iPhone Generative AI Features
This is only true for the affluent people in the world. Every person I personally know off will reasearch the shit out of the products including coupons available before making any kind of medium-high value purchase.

The digital assistant will need to be impartial and help in comparison with other similar product. Then again different people have different comparison criteria. Based on context I might be okay with a chinese knockoff while most of the time I might prefer the item that will last the longest.

knowriju··on Apple Is in Talks to Let Google's Gemini Power iPhone Generative AI Features
The reason for Apple to do this will be exactly why Microsoft is happy for OpenAI to provide the Models. If anything goes wrong it's not Apple or Microsoft's fault. It is the SaaS provider who is to blame. For apple this will mean Google's stock takes the hit while theirs remain unaffected. Unfortunately for OpenAI/MS, OpenAI is not public and so everyone is using MS as a proxy for trading on OAI. So if something goes wrong in the Bing/CoPilot world, MS stock will take the hit.
knowriju··on Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes
I beleive your comment shows the exact same thinking that you accuse the 'other' party of.

Are there issues ? Yes. Do they have soul searching to do? Yes Will they release a complely uncensored model ? No Will the exact prompts that showed problems be fixed ? Yes Will their be other problems ? Yes. Is this the end of Google? No

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