I mean, DeepSeek is kicking ass in reasoning, did it on the cheap, so why did it take their effort to get OpenAI to spring a new reasoning model to the public (and make it cheaper?).

This is the fundamental issue with these companies... closed source AI, with the biggest, best tech kept behind closed doors. That's the BEST reading of all of this.

At the core of it all is the notion that these companies - who WILL need to spend lots of money - are spending money on the wrong things. Bigger models aren't really going to crack the AGI/ASI barrier, and the current models cost a lot on inference. There are lots of gains in efficiency to be made, and that is what is key about DeepSeek. Inference needs to be cheaper for these "Frontier" AI companies.

Even if you had an "ASI model" with more data than the entire internet could provide, the resulting queries would be unsustainable, given the efficiencies in the o1-level models, for example. Likewise, training up such a model is ridiculously expensive (in compute, energy, infrastructure) still, without getting those gains in efficiency.

I see a world where we get open source models that will run well and cheap - locally on your phones, even... and do a pretty reasonable, accurate, and hallucination-free job. A mid-tier where queries are offloaded to server farms for more complex agentic work (the new employees), and a god-tier AI level, ASI with tendrils sniffing into every nook and cranny for information, that will cost the big bucks, but solve big problems ("cure cancer", "cold fusion") and still be cheaper than human research.

The problem is that a lot of these CEOs lack the vision, often caught up in their own egos or company pride to see the forest for all the trees.

I know there are lots of notable hybrid models out there from other companies, but I'm baffled when I look at GM and see they disengaged from that option at the most critical, opportune time to have a decent plugin hybrid available... the Volt is still well remembered/loved and even forgetting the pure EV mode, they run more efficient than pure ICE cars. It's baffling. Whoever was behind the decision to lose the momentum in this particular market should never hold a job in the automotive industry.

In America, EVs still need a lot of infrastructure support, and again, there are new market opportunities around charging stations (dining, shopping, entertainment) that have yet to be explored fully. HEVs are the logical stopgap.

Now, where do I store the other half?

No. I gave them money for years, then they kept raising the price unreasonably.

I'm now on Joplin, and host my own sync server, so I can sync across all my devices, and so can friends and family for their own notes - for free.

I mostly sync for the convenience... shopping lists, addresses, etc... even paying $37/year was a bit much, but then they tried to get $150/yr out of me for the same thing. Screw Evernote, and the redesign was insanely stupid, screwing up encryption and other stuff.

It started good and ended badly. The company deserves to go away forever.

So Gronk's response was not all that salty. Not even a mention of pedo sex abuse.

Other information has come out about the firing - it was a "hostile takeover" - Altman and Brockman were forced out by Ilya Sutskever, and everything transpired over a few hours.

I am curious to hear what Musk's AI lapdog has to say about this, and why he got fired. The answer is surely comedy gold.

Will we get dad jokes about sexually abusing your 4yo sister?

Unity also claimed that pirates would be somehow "Detected" using their "Ad Service Fraud detection algorithms" which is complete bullshit. Simple logic and some knowledge of how applications work, and specifically game engines like Unity, there is no connection to tell the game engine phoning home that in install is a pirate copy. Worse, is the claim that "charity bundled games would be excluded" - utter nonsense. Nothing in the game would tell the engine if it was purchased on itch.io or as part of a HumbleBundle. It's the same binaries.

Even worse... they want to charge Unity-based games already published years ago under the same fee schedule. That is blatantly illegal.

John Riccitiello is up to his old tricks again, the same tricks that wrecked Electronic Arts, and the wrecking ball is already swinging on Unity.

Half their customers are gone, and the other half just haven't heard about the new price plans yet.

Probably already on the exclusion list, along with any Murdoch and Sinclair media sites. An AI model can only get worse with some sources.

If we need anything, it's TABS.... For Windows, the best new innovation was the introduction of tabs to File Manager and Notepad.

When I put a window in focus, it's in focus. It's in front of things. The whole "flat UI" garbage makes things worse in that we no longer get shadows beneath the focused window, the titlebars are often left untouched (or just a slightly different pale shade). A good UI just needs to tell me where my current work is focused on, and in an age where we often have multiple monitors (I have a 3x4k monitor setup), it might be nice to have better visualization aids for finding my cursor, too.

I hear what you might be saying... "but... but... we are making drag-and-drop easier" - except NO, you aren't. If I have to drag something held in my cursor over a screen of real estate to get to another "tile" I'll probably lose it on a system doing an IO-freeze. Also, I want my windows because they show me EXACTLY the amount of information I want and need to see when I am using it. Tiles reduce my landscape, and make applications unusable at the volume I have open.

People can already tile their windows. Leave the rest of us alone and stop trying to remove our options.

I see two problems:
1. No AI-generated work will ever be an exact copy of any other work, Generative AI doesn't work that way... models are not some giant store of graphics, it's just a collection of attributes and weights. The best an AI can hope to achieve is something like the worlds largest lossy archive.
2. Several authoritative agencies have already stated that AI work itself is not "copyrightable"

I can see forcing devs to do more than simply copy in the binaries they generate from Midjourney, but it seems far-reaching to kick somebody's game off because of this.

I guess we need to start running EXIF filters on our textures. AI holds a lot of promise, but this... this is strange and troubling.

Your anecdotal evidence is pretty shoddy. In FIRST Robotics, the HD3000 cameras were the go to for mounting on robots, and I use a couple of them on my 3D Printers through OctoPrint running on Raspberry Pis. The cameras are great, they just work. Microsoft has created some great hardware over the years, and honestly, I can't think of much hardware they've done that has even been slightly buggy, though Surface PCs certainly have a pretty big potential for issues.

Most of the replies to this question are pretty useless pile-ons. I get it, "Microsoft bad" - but not helpful, and worse for this discussion, no insightful, either.

The headline implies this is suddenly happening to ALL Surface Pro X systems, which implies something other than hardware or a simple software bug, but if this is just hardware failure, signs would point to whatever supplier Microsoft used for the camera. If my fingerprint reader hardware failed on my Motorola phone, is it the fault of the design, or the engineers who worked on it, or is it poor quality control of some second tier supplier?

Fix the rules processing (we need a LOT of rules to deal with today's spam) and how it handles servers - in particular, better transparency into what it is doing to help debug those connections. My 12-core CPU shouldn't be brought to its knees every time it announces a new message coming in.

I guess I'm out. Making my experience painful just to buy a ticket? Yeah, I'd rather not. I have 50+in TVs all over my house (and decent sound systems), I don't need to find parking or fight traffic, and popcorn and candy is cheap from my own kitchen.

What's next? Call them "event tickets" and offer them exclusively through Ticketmaster? AMC seems to be deftly unable to read the room.

Never heard of the Engine controller? Transmission controller? Key components have been controlled by software going back to the 70s. What seems to be changing is the complexity and more control is being given over to a glorified "central" controller. Most car manufacturers explicitly went out of their way to prevent this sort of thing.... keeping specific control units with specific purposes (like microservices are used by enterprises today) on their own high speed bus to communicate between them where needed, and providing a low-speed, low-priority bus to interface to things the driver (user) needed to interact with.

Companies like Tesla take shortcuts, integrating large parts of controller code into a central system, which is far less robust and prone to system-wide failure due to software bugs and even external threats (thanks to internet connectivity) for the expediency of quicker development and lazy solutions to inter-functional performance challenges.

It's this centralized control that is the shiny object that execs look at and see dollar signs as a way to exploit their customers with subscription services and maintenance reminders; the latter might not be a bad thing, but corporations are always quick to abuse them to maximize profits, rather than provide good service - and the former... is just terrible at all levels.

After Buy.com got bought out and became Rakuten, people started noticing a few odd things about the site: 1. CC#s were being leaked to the internet shortly after using Rakuten to buy things with those credit cards...and 2. Rakuten (never acknowledging the problem) was actively encouraging customers to use credit cards over PayPal with discounts. What's more interesting is that even using "Virtual" CC# services, their credit cards were getting leaked... and it eventually came out that big vendors CAN and DO request the original credit card numbers and get them. In many suspected cases, the credit card was used for nothing else recently except the transaction with Rakuten - in at least one case, it was a brand new card, never used anywhere else - and in every case, false charges appeared within one or two days. So yes, I've used PayPal for quite a long time without issues. It's my primary debit card for daily brick and mortar purchases (using my bank account) - which is handy if that card IS compromised, because I have more options and I still have my original bank debit card for whatever I need until my new card comes in. I find it odd that Github is actively dumping PayPal without an explaination.