Nobody can know for sure but I am thinking that in the next 5 years one of the 2 will be dead and the last one standing will be sort of still depending in one way or another by the tech behemoths of today.

25B is not a small fine. Finally an amount that should make them think twice their harming decisions

The problem is that it's not a fine for the directors, it's a fine for the company itself.

It won't trickle down to the directors' salaries, so then there's no reason for them to act any differently in future.

Directors of companies should be personally financially liable for these types of penalties.

This is one of those things that sounds like it could make sense until you start to think about the mechanics of it. Should Mark Zuckerberg go to each of the people who made the misleading statements for which Facebook is being penalized and say “Hey, I’m making this your problem, pay me your share of the judgment or you’re fired?”

No, the state should fine them directly just as it would with any other civil offense. In technical terms, any directors active during the duration of the offense should be held jointly liable. This works because we aren't talking about rank and file employees here.

> It won't trickle down to the directors' salaries, so then there's no reason for them to act any differently in future

Not only that but this kind of behaviour is actively seen as necessary by them to maximize profits. Maximizing profits is in turn what shareholders want so everyone involved is going to continue doing this.

>harming decisions

It's infantilizing to think it's harmful to give users control over their privacy because they are too stupid to understand what they are doing when they share their data with someone that it shares their personal data with someone.

Maybe the $25B isn't guaranteed and doesn't seriously harm them on its own, but if the legal landscape shifts enough to make fines of this scale more common than the usual dozens-to-hundreds of millions, then it starts to impact their bottom line.

They don't care.

Meta can take the hit by either selling stock, laying of more employees or both to cover that cost.

Or they can put thick mitts on Zuckerberg's hands for a couple of years so he can't sign any checks.

It is pretty small for a company like Facebook, take a look at their quarterly revenue and the various credit facilities and sources of financing they have available. They could shrug off a one-time $25B fine.

You need another one or two digits before you can say it is "not a small fine."

The fine is for the state of new mexico, it's about 50 years of revenue in that state. That's decent sized imo.

My corporate workspace which seem to be a pro account is limited to 3.6 but my personal account at 20/month has given me the latest model always immediately. Flash 3.8 is my go to model for pretty much everything those days

Very often a demerge comes before an acquisition. Example, a fund could buy a huge group/conglomerate made of various companies, and then sell each companies separately. Each company sold is merged to another group but demerged from its original group.

Nvidia already have a plan in place for fast inference. They acquihire Groq last year

same experience. I was disappointed with 3.6 flash, but 3.7 seems a game changer IMO. Gemini 3.7 flash is really really near frontier intelligence at an order of magnitude cheaper and an order of magnitude faster. The speed is a major feature, I feel this is overlooked

This is a refreshing opinion, and also matches with my own experience. Many software engineers around me have now made the conclusion that AI will take their jobs and they're thinking changing careers already. I feel this is too early to tell. The prompts I write are all very technical, someone without my expertise would struggle with just an agent to talk to. Every time I do something outside my expertise, it is not as fast as one would imagine. Expertise do help tremendously and keep things in order

in fact engineering job openings are skyrocketing, just far beyond the big megacorps. AI was a neat excuse to correct the covid overgiring phases, now axes happened while lots of people built lots of new things they couldn't before and at some point it "swamps" under the complexities of reality at scaling up, thus engineers are needed. jibs are shuffling around yes, but demand will be surging even more soon.

This comment deserves praise

Frenchman here, living in Spain. This speaks to me on many levels. Bizum is so integrated in my daily life in Spain, that I wished my french friends had it when we need to transfer money between each other. Looks like we're going in that direction. Phenomenal

You could not frame my impresssion of this post better.