miohtama

Google is losing in the market share - their share is 0. Anthropic revenue was $60B in the last 12 months. Google is not growing the pie, it needs to buy its way to the market share and to a seat in the table.

Only if we did not have these cheap illegal Chinese models

Cybertruck technology ended up in cybercab and semi, so whether the vehicle itself won might not be relevant in long run.

Zoom out and you can see the frame buffer directly in video ram

The general ban of non-US models will arrive just before the IPO

Questions reporters should ask are

1) how long the website was vulnerable

2) who else accessed data

3) why it was not fixed

4) who is responsible maintaining the website

Here is a story of Australian cybersecurity researcher who reported vulnerable website to the government 2022 and it is still not fixed today

https://x.com/adamlyttleapps/status/2102958488658104365?s=20

“A tool with a purpose of editing files on a remote system can edit files on a remote system.”

The EU is working to make what Mullvad is doing illegal.

https://codamail.com/articles/privacy-law-directory/internat...

"EU surveillance co-operation"

Sol price is halved so no need for terra

For easy problems, just use Luna on max level. It has so much token mileage you can go forever.

Arrest him

Java applets!

Because they want to have the eyes of global press on Germany

Don't worry. Finland has taken over with the highest unemployment and will likely soon have the highest youth unemployment.

But why would anyone want to keep Fortran alive?

Wouldn't AI rewrite of these legacy Fortran packages like BLAS be easier at this point than trying to keep Fortran alive?

Modern Spain is having patchy record with digital age. Earlier:

1. Blocked Telegram with a court order, reinstituted after public backslash

2. Blocks Internet and Cloudflare during La Liga matches

3. Prime minister Pedro Sanchez from Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) has demanded the end of anonymity in Internet

They say it is to protect the kids, but likely it is to find out who watches La Liga without a premium subscription.

It’s Hollywood accounting

The valuations are lower (greedier investors) because EU companies are less likely to succeed for reasons mentioned above

These are mostly not significant businesses with large value capture or creation. I hope it could change though.

In Europe AI is seen as evil that must be stopped. Unlike in the US, AI doomers have Commission well manned. Ursula addressed this in her State of Union speech yesterday. The EU rather chooses consumer protection, even if it means killing AI and maintaining status quo.

Because any AI company would be hit by hate and regulation derived from this, no VC invests in the EU. It's more state and large enterprise investments, good old East Germany style. And historically it has not been that efficient.

Or simply: lack of risk taking appetite.

I hope there would be parameter iterations allowing especially cheaper models on inspect and fix their output via rendering

Larry is also the reason why all new Star Trek series have been cancelled:

https://www.cbr.com/paramount-dismantling-star-trek-9-year-s...

Here is the reply from David Sacks:

https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460

Would you trust this company?

Symantec / Norton:

• Longstanding consumer complaints about aggressive upselling, scare-style scan warnings, auto-renewal, and hard-to-cancel billing

• Product often came preinstalled on PCs; many users treated it as unwanted bloatware

• Mixed reputation: lab detection scores often decent; customer-service and billing scores often poor

• 2011–2016 class action (Symantec and Digital River): alleged hidden “download insurance” / extended download service added at checkout; settled for about $60 million

• Canadian class action over alleged defects in an older Norton “decomposer” component (software sold roughly 2010–2016); later settled for tens of millions

• 2013–2022 Columbia University patent case: jury found willful infringement of malware-related patents and awarded $185 million; case later settled

• False Claims Act / GSA contracting: Symantec accused of hiding extra commercial discounts from the U.S. government; 2023 trial findings plus a 2024 Gen Digital payment of $55.1 million to satisfy the judgment LifeLock (bought by Symantec in 2016; later NortonLifeLock / Gen Digital)

• 2010 FTC settlement: about $12 million for deceptive identity-theft advertising

• 2015 FTC action: about $100 million after LifeLock violated the 2010 order (weak security program and more false claims)

• Recurring criticism that protection/reimbursement marketing overstated what the service actually did

• 2022–2023 credential-stuffing attacks on Norton Password Manager / LifeLock logins using reused passwords from other breaches; company said its own systems were not hacked; thousands of accounts had some personal data accessed and hundreds of thousands of logins were targeted

NortonLifeLock / Gen Digital

• 2021–2022 Norton Crypto: Ethereum miner bundled with Norton 360; company said it was opt-in and took a cut; users and researchers criticized it as inappropriate in a security product; later dropped

• Ongoing complaints about subscription renewals, refunds, and support after the Symantec → NortonLifeLock → Gen Digital rebrands

• Privacy/tracking investigations (alleged sharing of site/app data with third-party analytics such as Quantum Metric); not a final court finding

• Separate consumer suits alleging LifeLock failed to alert users or honor “dollar-for-dollar” identity-theft reimbursement promises

Th crux is here:

> But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Guess why we are getting “age verification” everywhere, lobbied by Meta.

It is not to protect the children.

It is obviously working when the government says it is working too well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499394

Here is a good book on the topic of ineffectiveness of anti-money laundering:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVLLL1X3?lv=shuf&channelId=500&p...

Podcast if you do not want to buy the book:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-09-08/odd-lots-wh...

Southern Poverty Law Center decides:

> Government should require regular, mandatory reporting by technology service providers to document abuse of their systems including financial support of violence, harassment, and terrorism.This includes implementation of mandatory financial abuse reporting requirements for internet services operating in the United States, including social media services, infrastructure providers, banking institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges, crowdfunding sites, video streaming platforms, and the like.

> [These companies] should be required to investigate and report the details of harms and abuse of their service. There should be … penalties applied to services that refuse these tracking and reporting responsibilities.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/nonprofit-indicted-ba...