Everyone who can afford a car with an infotainment system also has a high-end smart phone that they replace several times over the life of the car. It's not quite as bad an idea as putting a tablet in your refrigerator door, but the product lifespan mismatch is of the same nature.
To handle the case where the customer would prefer not to think about interfacing their phone or tablet to their car, a branded compatible tablet should be a dealer option, or at least the tablet-like part of infotainment should be replaceable.
To make sense, this has to compete with the cost and value of battery storage. That depends on location and energy and fertilizer needs at that location. So I guess it's possible that the cost makes sense, but it doesn't seem very likely compared to the ever falling cost of battery storage.
Oh those awful influencers. There are upstanding people like police chiefs and town managers losing their jobs for not representing the public because the public has no doubt been influenced by influencers, amirite?
Any jackass <cough>Kevin O'Leary</cough> can announce a data center project. Then you have the pivoting crypto bros. The competent data center builders are the hyper scalers who have been building and running data centers for decades.
Low margins, lots of garbage participants, and a few competent players who are likely to crush anyone less efficient. That doesn't look very remunerative.
That's a bit lazy. Elon built a cult following, and that's what defended TSLA for a few years now, since there was no longer a story of infinite growth, or growth at all.
"Everyone thinks" but not for no reason. Henry Kissinger was one way Elizabeth Holmes made everyone think.
Trade secrets are easy to claim but hard to turn into a tort without having someone steal them. I'm sure some lawyer can come up with a filing that tries to make distillation an act of theft, but there would be many weak links in that chain.
Contrast this with Apple's case where it looks like they've got evidence of people walking out of the building with various physical artifacts on their way to an OpenAI interview.
Smart glasses are about a 15 million unit per year business. Smart watches are about 150 million units per year. Meta owns about half the smart glasses business, but it hasn't provided them a platform they can control that has enough penetration to make a difference.
But wait it gets worse: since Meta hasn't got a platform comparable to a mainstream PC or mobile device OS, the Meta glasses business is vulnerable and subscale, as impressive as owning half the TAM is. Since Meta glasses aren't a companion to an existing platform (not even AndroidAR, even though they run Android) they will become a second tier choice as soon as Apple or Samsung ship a smart glasses product.
Now that bullshit about a golden age of science is obviously bullshit, I wonder how long it will take our supposed tech industry leaders to unhook their lips from Trump's rear end and admit that authoritarian, racist, sexist, anti-science politics isn't good for tech.
If what they're referring to is coding agents, I can say they were pretty crappy as of November last year, and they've come a long way. Much more useful and usable now.
Meta at least has a theory that it will transform their ad business. No guarantees but it seems like a pretty decent theory, with direct connections to revenue.
Looking at cash burn is looking at the wrong end of the horse. Some companies, like Meta, have burned huge piles of cash in pursuit of, for example, the Metaverse and they've got nothing to show for it, not even a slight increment in ad tech, and yet they earned enough to shrug it off.
There's a big difference between Google spending tens of billions on AI infrastructure and what Oracle is doing. Oracle is spending to get on a bandwagon. Google is transforming their business, so far seemingly correctly. If AI flops big-time, Google will be left with some stranded assets, but it won't be existential the way it would be to Oracle.
It's interesting to see a competitive landscape shift out from under the early adopters. Anthropic appears to have anticipated this, but everyone else is going to get caught out by the major platform providers' multitude of distribution channels and use cases. Meta might also be an exceptional case if they can find a way to goose up ad effectiveness.
I've been using 3.5 flash in Android Studio on a Dart/Flutter project, some of it pretty complex and using brand new API's and native code for agentic tool calling in the app.
It used to be that you could find the edges of the training set pretty easily. No longer.
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