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That's a fair assessment if you look at LinkedIn posts.

Personally though, I am finding it incredibly useful and I use it daily to assist with operations, strategy, sales.

I have it installed on a dedicated M4 16GB Mac Mini with Telegram, email, and Google Docs integration (the agent has its own accounts). I can chat with it, incl. sending voice messages via Telegram (it can send voice messages back using free TTS run locally).

Using google/gemma-4-31b-it as primary, google-gemini-3.1-pro-preview as secondary (I don't like how it's rate limited).

It's a great personal assistant. Helps me track industry news, key clients, reminds me of important tasks, and helps brainstorm (the rubber duck effect alone is worth it). Now building other skills.

Next step is to run all models locally (I think using Claude/OpenAI APIs is a huge mistake from a privacy standpoint). Since Mac Studios are sold out (and M5 Ultra is not out yet), will probably go with a GX10 or two.

Wondering how Spotify is handling this issue

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-24/spotify-terms-creato...

I tried finding a 128 - 256GB Mac Studio online and most options would not be shipped for at least "8-10 weeks".

Does this have to do with cell division?

Why is this unexpected? Seasonal sales hiring is over. Tech is cutting jobs (because AI). Things are generally bleak right now.

as someone frequently exhibiting at various industry trade shows, I can confidently say nobody would notice.

I also feel it's very easy for a good interviewer to bring the conversation back to the desired scenario.

Anything from "imagine we are in a parallel universe where Google Sheets has not been invented yet" to "how would you design a google sheets competitor" would do the trick.

Source: interviewed hundreds, incl FAANG.

seems to be the pattern doesn't it.

This hedge fund manager did a review on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V36kSqwjaaw&t=7s

Do investors do due diligence anymore?

A prominent entrepreneur who founded the now-bankrupt clothing technology startup CaaStle was criminally charged on Friday with defrauding investors out of more than $300 million, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

They probably mean receiving the package directly from Amazon?

Yes, I remember gaming the algo to get to the top page! HDR was much harder to produce back then lol

The problem is manufactures are shifting their production capacities towards the more profitable, high-performance "AI" components.

Don't forget their "interestingness" algorithm that would determine which photos get to the top position in groups and other shares views. Way before ML ranking.

They were also publicly in "beta" for a few years, which provided a great example that it was okay to roll out experimental features to the public.

LinkedIn says she was a researcher. Joined as part of the Meta <> Scale deal with Alexandr Wang.

Thank you for clarifying. It is true that many of such possessions have become incredibly cheap (and therefore affordable) especially when it comes to media consumption and other forms of escapism, but they do very little to address our fundamental needs (physical safety & health, financial security, emotional stability).

True luxuries (not having to worry, not having to waste time) are increasingly out of reach for most people.

I see your point, and I've seen people reevaluate their priorities when presented with a life altering sum of money (or with a court subpoena).

And that's one of the reasons we made it architecturally impossible for someone to access the data externally. The user decides how and where to send the data.

I wouldn't call these material luxuries, just like big screen TVs are no longer a luxury. Being able to visit a doctor or a dentist on the other hand...

"Among the 37 percent of adults who would not have covered a $400 expense completely with cash or its equivalent, most would pay some other way, although some said that they would be unable to pay the expense at all. For those who could cover the expenses another way, the most common approach was to use a credit card and then carry a balance, and many indicated they would use multiple approaches. However, 13 percent of all adults said they would be unable to pay the expense by any means (table 21), unchanged from 2022 and 2023 but up from 11 percent in 2021"

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2025-economic-we...

The only people whose lives are stable in this economy are the ultra wealthy. Even those who we would normally consider "middle class" are a couple of medical emergencies away from financial ruin. Whole classes of jobs are disappearing.

When it comes to privacy violations, Ring and Nest aren't much better - but at least people have a choice whether or not to install them.

Nest: video was recovered from 'residual data located in backend systems' even though there was no active subscription.

Ring: employees accessing people's videos.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/...

I am an American and I am doing something about it. Co-founded a company that manufactures privacy-centric, on-prem video monitoring devices. No cloud.

It's not just Pinterest though. IG, Reddit, even LinkedIn.

Hard to predict. If the bubble pops (NVIDIA and "circular economy", massive FAANG datacenter expansion plans, huge LLM training budgets) the markets will once again be flooded with components.

But, the shortages may very well continue into 2027, leading to some manufacturers going out of business and yet another massive redistribution of wealth.

Meta doesn't need to monetize their AI directly the way OpenAI or Anthropic would do. Meta runs ads, and they can use AI to help advertisers create content, target people, engage, etc.

Patel said law enforcement had "uncovered these previously inaccessible new images" as of Tuesday morning. The video was "recovered from residual data located in backend systems."

yes, cloud-based surveillance systems are inherently risky (sometimes due to lack of internal guardrails).

fyi Tesla employees were caught accessing private videos.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...

Other than the potential liability, cost may also be a factor.

Back in April 2025, Altman mentioned people saying "thank you" was adding “tens of millions of dollars” to their infra costs. Wondering if adding per-message timestamps would cost even more.