Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
AI Price Wars Begin: OpenAI Considers “Drastic Price Cuts” In Pursuit Of Anthropic Customers
June 10th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: In short, we now have a classical deflationary race to the bottom, precisely the opposite of what the profit-strapped industry desperately needs to grow into its gargantuan balance sheets (and massive SPVs); Instead, the AI world is about to get hit with a collapse in both revenues and profit margins, while cash burn […]
SpaceX AI Satellites
June 9th, 2026As I was listening to Elon Musk talking about AI satellites, I started thinking about a video I clipped from a livestream recently in Los Angeles. As the bums shuffle around the filth in Skid Row, the thinking machines are being readied to launch into space. *shrug shoulders* So it goes… SpaceX AI Satellites pic.twitter.com/e87XMW2tXb […]
Failing Grades Soar as Professors See Greater AI Usage, Dwindling Math Skills in UC Berkeley Computer Science Classes
June 4th, 2026Via: The Daily Californian: UC Berkeley teaching professor Dan Garcia taught both CS 10, “The Beauty and Joy of Computing,” and CS 61A, “The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,” in spring 2026. Garcia believes the “primary driver” of these abnormally high failing rates is due to a “vast increase in academic dishonesty” due to […]
AI Companies Are LYING to You
May 29th, 2026Via: FUTO:
Why Tesla’s AI Trainers Don’t Trust Its Self-driving Tech – Or Its Safety Stats
May 28th, 2026Via: Reuters: Tesla says its Full Self-Driving software is up to 10 times safer than human drivers. But the figures the company uses to support its claims don’t withstand scrutiny – and staffers who trained the technology say it isn’t close to safely delivering autonomous vehicles at scale. … Inside Tesla, as these events approached, […]
DuckDuckGo’s AI-Free Search Gains 28% More Visits Following Google’s Insistence That People Love AI Mode
May 27th, 2026Via: PC Gamer: These days, a typical Google Search feels like an obstacle course. Type out ‘upcoming PC games 2026’ and your gaze has to swerve around a chunky AI overview which recycles the work of human writers in a bid to kneecap efforts to click away from Google. It’s a bleak state of affairs […]
We’re Being Held Hostage in a Technology Bubble
May 26th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
Trump Admin Takes Equity Stake in IBM and Other Quantum Computing Companies
May 21st, 2026Via: Gizmodo: After taking equity stakes in chipmakers and rare-earth element miners, the Trump administration has a new industry on its radar: quantum computing. On Thursday, the Department of Commerce announced that it was investing more than $2 billion in nine quantum computing companies. In turn, it’ll receive “a minority, non-controlling equity stake” in each. […]
Google Search is Truly Dead
May 20th, 2026This is not new. Google/Screwgle/Poogle is changing the appearance of the front end to a bot interface. This is from four years ago: Of course, people like me (and probably you), noticed that Google search went off the rails long before that. Via: TechLinked: — Via: Samtime:
“Utah Datacenter Could Dump 23 Atomic Bombs Worth of Energy Per Day” [???]
May 20th, 2026Via: The Register: A proposed mega-scale datacenter in the US state of Utah has caused controversy after a physics professor estimated that the facility and its associated power generation could dump 23 atomic bombs’ worth of energy per day. But the real question is whether it will actually ever get built. The datacenter is part […]
