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Von allen im Bundestag vertretenen Parteien verkörpert die AfD die Interessen des deutschen Staats am besten. Was sie tun ist weder originell, noch der bürgerlichen Demokratie fremd, und sie gewinnen nicht weil sie unfair spielen oder populistisch agieren, Mittel welche alle anderen Parteien leichter und mit weitaus größeren finanziellen Möglichkeiten ausnutzen könnten, sondern weil sie der reaktionäre Gegenpol zur sozialistischen Lösung der kapitalistischen Widersprüche sind. Ein Festhalten…

The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.

A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ab22c799-6370-4f8c-9256-d5bfd28e0aa1

‘It’s been an expensive year’: Meituan counts cost of China’s delivery wars
Competition from Alibaba and JD.com for fast-growing instant retail market has hit the Beijing-based group

Interesting blog, TPU vs GPU.
#TPU

The chip made for the AI inference era – the Google TPU
I am publishing a comprehensive deep dive, not just a technical overview, but also strategic and financial coverage of the Google TPU.

While much of the recent interest in Jeffrey Epstein has focused on the late sexual predator’s relationship with Donald Trump,
his emails also reveal his close relationships with other powerful figures from the worlds of politics, finance, academia and beyond.
The thousands of files released by the House Oversight Committee earlier this month include his correspondence from April 2011 through January 2019, after he was already a registered sex offender for abusing underage girls…

“The Epstein Class”: Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around the Sexual Predator
While much of the recent interest in Jeffrey Epstein has focused on the late sexual predator’s relationship with President Donald Trump, his emails also reveal his close relationships with other powerful figures from the worlds of politics, finance, academia and beyond. The thousands of files released by the House Oversight Committee earlier this month include his correspondence from April 2011 through January 2019, after he was already a registered sex offender for abusing underage girls in …

Filing: The Trade Desk CFO Alexander Kayyal has left after only six months in the role; longtime executive Tahnil Davis will become the interim CFO (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/the-trade-desks-cfo-is-out-after-just-6-months-on-t…

The Trade Desk’s CFO Is Out After Just 6 Months on the Job
Outgoing finance chief, Alex Kayyal, served at The Trade Desk for nearly six months and will remain on the company’s board through its 2026 annual shareholder meeting.

Blöd, wenn man einen Artikel rausbringt über den Absturz des US-Dollars, dieser aber steigt und man es in der eingefügten interaktiven Grafik sieht. #medien #bullshit #tagesschau

Vertrauensverlust durch Trump: Dollar verfällt immer weiter
Der Dollar hat seine Talfahrt am Devisenmarkt beschleunigt. Für Exportnationen wie Deutschland wird das zum Problem. Die US-Währung verliert zunehmend an Vertrauen.

Klarna launches KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin, running on Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo blockchain, aiming to "reduce costs" in international payments (Pritam Biswas/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/k

Donald Trump’s “pay-to-play” governing and fundraising style is helping forge a new gilded age
where many super rich donors to Trump’s Maga Inc Pac and other top Trump causes are reaping big political and financial gains,
including lax regulations, federal contracts and other benefits, say scholars and analysts.
The transactional style of the US president has been a financial boon to cryptocurrency, AI and fossil fuel interests, among others,
which have showered seven…

Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-getting-efficient-running…

OpenAI Is Getting More Efficient at Running Its AI, Internal Financials Show
As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business. While its total computing costs are still high as a percentage of revenue, it is wringing more revenue out of every dollar it spends to run ...