I agree. This is a spectacular mistake. Anthropic has the best "AI" on the planet. Anthropic can spin up a giant "Claude" and plan rings around the Pentagon. DoD better get used to losing that fight.
I think it'd be surprising if money is the limiting factor in Gemini's success considering Google has very deep pockets, so that's probably not true.
Also, Gemini with DoD money and DoD direction is likely to result in an AI that works very well for the DoD but significantly less well for other things, especially if your use case benefits from some guardrails (and most use cases do, because you rarely want AI to just do whatever it fancies.)
Gemini is just the worst of the 3 horses. The gov will eventually make them all to bend the knee. PRISM already showed they(eventually) all comply. I personally see this more like PR for Anthropic before the IPO
The problem is they’re going to hit them with a wrench and no one will do anything because there’s no rule of law at that level left in the country. Just sycophancy and backroom deals.
Bottom line, with some solid but not necessarily heroic engineering, the cost of an orbital data center could be as low as three times that of the comparable terrestrial one.
"Could be as low" means the 3x cost is based on optimistic assumptions. When does something 3x as expensive ever get chosen? Usually we're concerned with shaving single digit percentages of costs.
As a rule of thumb use the mass to orbit launch cost curve and cadence of SpaceX vehicles to project forward the orbital station solar powered AI datacenter cost curve. It will be highly unlikely to cost $42 billion and not even one AI datacenter ever reaches orbit.
This episode indicates that the Trump admin's trust in "AI" is conditional. Hegseth can understand that an "AI" has limitations - he's demanding certain limitations be removed. Therefore, any time someone in the Trump admin uses the excuse that "AI said so, nothing can be done about it", we know that's a lie. The use of "AI" instead of human judgement is itself based upon n human judgement and biases.
I wish it had bigger buttons and links in mobile browsers. Other than that, it's great. Buttons are obvious (flat design is stupid) and text fields are clearly that.
This Tweet ascribes a known phenomenon (creating software on your own, to satisfy a personal need or curiosity) to the new "vibe-coding" trend. This ignores lots of examples like curl, Linux, Unix itself and maybe even the world wide web. There's been absolutely nothing stopping writing your own software for your own purposes since the mid-70s or so.
I had the impression "NVE" was used to avoid describing folks like the Butler PA shooter, Charlie Kirk's assassin, and this last would be lone gunman as conservatives.
The parent comment is warning about the potential for a false representation of a crisis being used to grab more power; the underlying facts being inconsistent with the supposed crisis is not particularly surprising
> to avoid describing […] Kirk's assassin [as conservative]
That was a bit of a canard, though, right? Did anyone seriously think he was a conservative? I thought this was just another mental gymnastics act in the Whataboutism Circus. With some photo fabrication to support it, according to Wikipedia.
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