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Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-nadella-hardest…

Inside Nadella's hardest year
Microsoft bet everything on AI. Is its North Star now a noose?

Oracle invoked a 'force majeure' notice
to protect itself from financial liability
and defer rent payments regarding Project Jupiter,
a massive 2.45-gigawatt AI data center campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, built to support OpenAI
The 1,400-acre site has faced local opposition and infrastructure hurdles,
including a denied permit for a planned natural-gas pipeline,
prompting a shift toward costly fuel cells from Bloom Energy.
The legal p…

@… I agree that LLMs accelerated problematic developments that were already underway. It’s not surprising that they were picked up eagerly by those trying to game the flawed system.
Of course, “the AI” isn’t at fault, but those who sell and use it. But again, if it were as capable as it supposedly is, shouldn’t even the mediocre scientists now produce great research?

@… I agree that LLMs accelerated problematic developments that were already underway. It’s not surprising that they were picked up eagerly by those trying to game the flawed system.
Of course, “the AI” isn’t at fault, but those who sell and use it. But again, if it were as capable as it supposedly is, shouldn’t even the mediocre scientists now produce great research?

' Canada's 'powerful' dairy sector is in Trump's trade crosshairs:
Canada's dairy supply management system is in the spotlight after the US president singled it out as one of three main irritants used to justify new tariffs. '
Canada has a very safe dairy supply and we don't want American Big Agro selling into our markets to ruin our health with their "products".

What about the #PrivateEquity OPERATIONS handbook for Dummies?
1️⃣ Acquire companies 1, 2, 3 w/ similar products
2️⃣ Layoff corp depts of 1 & 2 (HR, Fin, Legal, Mktg)
3️⃣ Retire products of 1 & 2
4️⃣ Mandate new more expensive purchasing reqs for existing customers
5️⃣ Change current contracts for 1 & 2 to autoswitch to 3
6️⃣ Layoff product engineering for 1 & 2
ProTip: If your company is acquired, your product had better be the best of all acquisitions or plan on your product being retired.

@aiappsapi@mastodon.social I agree that per-query values have limited meaning given all the variability in the context of how they're used.
That said, although I don't know an empirical study of this, I think there are many contexts in which a cheaper model has a much lower footprint. In fact, a recent study out of Stanford et al. found re-reading context was one of the reasons agentic tasks blew up compute

Zu EU-Kommission und Geschwindigkeitskontrolle:
Wieso produziert man eigentlich noch Autos, welche ab Werk >130 km/h fahren können? Ausser in Deutschland darf man doch nirgendwo schneller fahren. Alle schwächer und günstiger machen. Dann einfach noch eine Deutschland-Edition, die schneller fährt, aber einen Schalter hat, der vor der Grenze umgelegt werden muss, und dessen Einstellung vom Fahrtenschreiber aufgezeichnet wird.
Im Ausland aktiv?
Auto weg, da Typ so nicht zug…

@… (I think we agree on this but) if we view capitalism and the market economy as inherently toxic (as I do), is work to make it less unequal not counter productive? We need to be building the new structures, not trying to shore up the wanton excess of the old.
Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast: Podcasters Unite! Thinking about systemic change with Tim Log…

#FotoVorschlag "Jedes Schild hat seine Bewandtnis", hier: Schlechte Wahlverlierer, nachdem 2011 in #BadenWürttemberg die CDU nach 58 Jahren in die Opposition musste, weil sie zusammen mit der FDP keine Mehrheit mehr hatte und eine Koalition aus