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Saw this in an article and it's been on my mind since
260 satellites intentionally burned in the atmosphere in 6 months and another 349 queued. They're planning 42,000 total eventually. No debris which is fine but researchers are asking what happens when you're burning hundreds of massive metal objects in the upper atmosphere repeatedly over years. Aluminum particles, potential atmospheric chemistry changes. Science is still catching up and the FCC is now proposing to exempt satellites from environmental review entirely
Idk,we're moving faster than we're studying this...anyone else find this a bit much?

Saw this article today and it genuinely surprised me

Meta has been using Gemini for customer service, ad tools, content moderation, all of it. and apparently chose it because it worked better than their own Llama models and then Google cut them off because Meta was consuming too much capacity.

Now employees are being told to watch their token usage. This is the same company that was pushing staff to use more AI just a few months ago. Idk man, of all the companies to run out of AI capacity

Saw this on UN News and one stat just stopped me. By 2030 AI data centres could use enough water to cover the basic annual needs of 1.3 billion people. just for cooling servers and 80-90% of that energy isn't even from training models. It's just daily usage every prompt, every search, every image.

Generating one AI image uses over 1000x the energy of a basic text task and i had no idea the gap was that big. How is this not being talked about more

Saw this on Computerworld today and i've been thinking about it since

Founder of JD.com said robots will replace all 700,000 of their delivery workers. Didn't sugarcoat it, didn't give a timeline, just said it's coming

What got me was he also said he doesn't want his workers going hungry because of it, and their solution is retraining some of them to fix the robots taking their jobs.
700,000 is a lot of people to just figure it out

Do you guys think this is actually as close as they're making it sound

Saw this on Gizmodo today and it's been stuck in my head

The argument is simple. AI learned from everyone's writing, art, code, conversations and companies are now worth trillions because of that. so why is none of it coming back to the people whose work built it

The bill would create a $7 trillion fund, give the public a 50% stake in the biggest AI labs, $1000 a year per person to start, goes up as AI makes more

Every time i use chatgpt i think about all the writers and coders and artists whose work it learned from who got nothing. This is at least someone trying to address that

Is this actually doable or just a good idea that goes nowhere

Okay this is just floating around as a rumor right now but if true it's actually huge
Next voice model is supposedly called GPT-Bidi-1, bidi for bidirectional, meaning it listens and talks at the same time instead of doing that thing where it just freezes the second you say "mm-hm" or try to jump in
Can apparently adjust mid sentence too if you interrupt it which current voice mode absolutely cannot do
If even half of this is true this fixes the most annoying thing about talking to chatgpt right now
Anyone seen more on this...is this actually close or just early testing stuff

Been playing around with Google's new DiffusionGemma.
The weird part is it doesn't generate text token by token. It starts with noise and refines the whole thing, kinda like Stable Diffusion but for text.

Crazy fast, but I'd still pick Gemma 4 for quality right now.

Still, the idea is pretty interesting. If they can get the quality closer to traditional LLMs, this could be a huge change.
Anyone else tested it?

https://preview.redd.it/bo98a5a61u6h1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=87979e81efebc0752fbfe176ce49c491bd41e8e6

Knew this was coming but seeing it actually happen is still kind of wild

IPO priced at $135 a share, valuation around $1.77 trillion, largest IPO in history. musk's stake from SpaceX alone is worth over $866 billion. add tesla on top and he just crossed a trillion

No human being has ever been worth this much money. ever.

Part of me thinks building rockets and satellites at this scale is just insane to even pull off and the other part can't wrap my head around what a trillion dollars actually means in real life

Unpopular opinion but yeah most people just can't get past the number long enough to look at what created it

What do you guys think?

Saw this article making rounds and it actually made me think
we've all been so obsessed with the whole chip shortage thing that nobody really stopped to ask if compute is even the bottleneck anymore and apparently it's not. data centers are getting built so fast that the power grid literally cannot keep up with them
like companies can go out and buy GPUs now if they have the money but you can't just go buy a power grid and that's apparently where everything is getting stuck
kind of wild that after all the hype around AI it's just basic infrastructure holding things back
what do you guys think is this actually a bigger deal than we're making it out to be

Siri might be the biggest fumble in tech history. Apple got millions of people comfortable talking to an AI years before anyone else.

Then AI actually became useful. And somehow Siri is still stuck setting timers while other assistants are writing code, summarizing meetings, planning trips, and handling entire workflows.

Being first doesn't matter if everyone else ends up building the better product.

Does anyone genuinely use Siri for anything beyond alarms anymore?

https://preview.redd.it/2l7zs1iccf6h1.png?width=2746&format=png&auto=webp&s=df0ef2b516067fe406084177efcfbeb6ee455d39

Siri might be the biggest fumble in tech history. Apple got millions of people comfortable talking to an AI years before anyone else.

Then AI actually became useful. And somehow Siri is still stuck setting timers while other assistants are writing code, summarizing meetings, planning trips, and handling entire workflows.

Being first doesn't matter if everyone else ends up building the better product.

Does anyone genuinely use Siri for anything beyond alarms anymore?

https://preview.redd.it/s1ugrjgp8f6h1.png?width=2746&format=png&auto=webp&s=a74b611ef824babf6c57524f31c0306355084311

Just watched the WWDC keynote and the new Siri AI is actually impressive this time
It can understand what's on your screen, remember past conversations, search across your apps. should've been there years ago but okay better late than never...
Also it's now powered by Google's Gemini which i did not see coming lol
only thing is it's english only for now so gotta wait a bit for other languages
but yeah siri might actually be useful now which is not something i ever thought i'd say
what do you guys think trying it out when it drops or nah?