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returnInfinity··on America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
this is a terrible article, fire that writer

the media landscape has changed. youtube, tiktok, reels are the dominant media. the money the creators make there dwarfs this 200k loss of jobs.

The issue is, its global, creators aren't limited to desk jobs in america.

returnInfinity··on Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer
you know they paid some 70 billion for activision blizzard?
returnInfinity··on Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax
This is good, punish the shareholders, wallstreet gets the news.

This wealth tax is poorly planned, tax the wealth, but find a better way.

returnInfinity··on SaaS Is Dead
SaaS that's critical for the business is not going to be disrupted.

Once a business grows where tool failure is not a option, they will buy salesforce or similar professional clones.

Now will salesforce be disrupted by a newer CRM called AIForce? Now your paying AIForce instead of paying Benioff.

returnInfinity··on SaaS Is Dead
I won't be hosting my own notes solution.

I thought about hosting my own photos. The time is just not there, cheaper to pay Google.

Until AGI or Super Intelligence saas is not dead.

Once AGI and Super Intelligence here, everything is dead.

returnInfinity··on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
where do you get the data from?
returnInfinity··on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
the moat is getting wider, it proves vibe coded apps can't replace your business.

only a serious business can replace. figma, canva and other tools. but these are new tools in the same industry.

returnInfinity··on Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy
Anth revenue has probably crossed 70 billion.

The way they calculate that is, last month's revenue x 12.

The leaked numbers are old.

returnInfinity··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
I think its Zuck's new hiring strat,

He hired cred CEO to be whatsapp CEO.

Scale CEO to be AI leader

Now Mongo ceo to lead the AI enterprise sales.

returnInfinity··on Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI
yeah and antropic s1 is going to shock many people, its going to be an eyeopener

however there is the open source cheaper token threat

returnInfinity··on Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)
Steve jobs was even more cut throat, he would have doubled the prices.
returnInfinity··on GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction
yes in an ideal world, in business world its all wine dine, contracts, costs savings.

perhaps all the companies should dump teams and use slack.

returnInfinity··on GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction
This is a play to grab market share from Claude, But it seems Claude code is too strong of a brand

Until the IT managers and CFOs cut budget hard, Claude will live rent free in heads of all developers

OpenAI should attack the CIO and CFOs stat

At my company we have unlimited codex and claude, still people stick to gimped claude code

returnInfinity··on Discovery Loop
Google stock would drop big if this new company was being funded by competitors
returnInfinity··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
As what? CEO? Demis will not take up the MTS role.
returnInfinity··on Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears
if demand for "safe" tokens explodes, this is a no brainier

if open source throws a wrench into the frontier revenue growth, then its gonna be biggest bubble explosion

returnInfinity··on Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
bullish on google stock

revenue must go up

returnInfinity··on AI Bubble vs. Dot Com Crash. History Is Repeating
not going to watch this

if there is a bubble, then watch out for money supply. if it contracts because of interest rates or some random reason, then bubble will collapse.(if there was a bubble)

also iran war, nobody know what will happen if it escalates to full scale war. nothing good will happen, that's for sure.

returnInfinity··on Successful Companies Go Blind
Exactly, you need to be in the chosen group. The trusted group.
returnInfinity··on GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
I think GPT 5.6 sol is pretty slow. I went back to 5.5

Though its been just 3 days I started using.

Half way through the chat, GPT 5.6 Sol stops and does a safety verification, pretty annoying

returnInfinity··on Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas
Folks if you believe this Ed guy, you're soon going be really disappointed.

LLMs are big, Codex app is huge. You can control the browser from within codex app with just natural language.

Tell codex to perform a few actions, you go get coffee and come back to work done. This is real boost in productivity.

returnInfinity··on Bring back crappy forums
Reddit, Quora, Twitter, Pinterest won.

Now facebook is trying to build a new app.

returnInfinity··on The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (2020)
yeah I was a uber bear too, some how it has turned around

I was betting on the taxi drivers revolting, but the capital markets have prevailed

returnInfinity··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
They are paying for the installed based. The users mainly. And also the team.
returnInfinity··on Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them
they are profitable on tokens. if company itself is profitable is unknown and we will see it soon.
returnInfinity··on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
Its complicated, this is how its going to be. People are going to have opinions and take sides or take no side at all.
returnInfinity··on Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
The powers that be are already planning to ban Chinese models.
returnInfinity··on The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
This is the right answer. Double down or triple down on this comment.
returnInfinity··on Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
Even if they lower costs to 0, it means nothing

Topline growth matters more than costs.

Mathematically - There is no limit to topline growth But cost cutting has a ceiling, which is the current costs.

You can only make(save) so much money with cost cutting

Topline growth is upper bound by total energy in the universe though.

returnInfinity··on Google I/O
"Our Model", "Our Model", "Our Model"
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