The siuation for the rest of the world is the same either way.

China (and allies eg. Russia) get chips and the rest of the world (eg. Ukraine) have to live whith whatever taiwanese refugees can ramp up over decades in which country they decide is safe enough to flee to

Like altcoin exchanges, except real companies are now the altcoins

“Once again repeating the last thing he heard, elderly man now agrees with the ai industry”

Its not true though.

This was sent around recently, on azure specifically. https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

It reads a bit like one engineer with a grudge, and you never know what the interpersonal skills of people are like; but the overall impression is of a competent engineer face with total chaos.

The bit about each azure host having a webserver shared across all client vms for info query was gobsmacking tbh. Though i dont work in this area.

The question isnt how good the results are, its whether you can achieve the same quality for the money without an llm.

The stories of the bsd bug say they spent $20k on compute alone (and who knows if thats before or after VC subsidies). Then they had so many reports they need to pay some of the top experts to triage which ones were real.

And the result? no remote code execution, no data theft. A remote crash. Its a real bug that can cause problems but its not actually an exploit.

The sad thing is there really could be something new and useful in ai model security, people are seeing good results by automating the reproduction step, but the presentation of it as too dangerous to release and a massive change just sound like pure marketing.

Most likely its just too expensive to do this unless youre a vc funded op with its own compute and want a pr campaign to stop people thinking about how shit the source code you just accidentally released is.

Sounds like the exact same mix who did this in the uk decades ago trying to stop petrol duty rises.

It worked, basically no government has increased petrol duty since despite it being in the plans the independent budget office have to judge the budget against every year.

Except… starmer just did. So we might well have fuel protests^W direct action in the uk too before long.

Dunno what the irish ones can hope to achive? The same thing i guess cos theyre not gonna change the price of fuel itself.

Oh god no, yeah suing them is stupid. Just chargeback. Thatll cause booking.com endless trouble in itself.

Charge back will have no fees, and theyre not going to come after you for the money legally as they know theyre in the wrong.

And in many countries defending against them if they do challenge the chargeback is also free, except for time.

Pants

What are they gonna do? Tell the cia and regime change me?

Only, what, 12 more pointless wars and he can coast to the end of his term without epstein coming up again.

“I would also like to remind you that the U.S. and Israel did not consult us before the war, and that Washington explicitly stated at the start of the war that European assistance was neither necessary nor desired,” Kornelius said.

If youre talkong about local models youre not really talking about what everyone else is, and youre already avoiding the wave

I dunno, if we were pushed off machine code onto non-deterministic compilers that ran on a machine thousands of miles away with no way to know when it was changed i think we’d have balked at that too, even if compilers themselves are entirely positive.

Theres other posts here about them considering sending mine hunting drones or other stuff.

Same annoucements and speeches but with opposite spin.

There was saudi money behind the twitter takeover wasnt there?

Theyve actually contributed to this happening. But perhaps in a dumb way that doesnt give them any control.

The stealth bomber hitting the nuclear lab under a mountain through the vent tunnels.

Ok no embedding bsky i guess. Stephen collins has a perfect comic about this already

https://bsky.app/profile/stephencollins.bsky.social/post/3mga5q54kc22a

Saudi Arabia and Iran. With russia coming in 3rd. Assuming SA rolls over for america how long can china live on russian oil and some kind of coal to oil process? No idea.

Venezuala is way down the list.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/02/iran-us-strikes-china-oil-supply-charts-00806415