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    US Company Gets Approval To Build The World's First Fusion Power Plant

    I said that it's the simplest explanation. I didn't say I believed it. It's irrelevant if I said false things, since I made no claims of them being true or false. There's no market for Helion working or not. I'd bet a few hundred against it if you create it. Easy money money for you and Toucan...
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    US Company Gets Approval To Build The World's First Fusion Power Plant

    I'm not a proponent of the electric universe theory. Apparently, you're wrong :) . The SAFIRE crowd focus too much on space phenomena, which cannot be measured and studied effectively. I also don't like them treating mythology as evidence, although it is entertaining. I don't care which one is...
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    US Company Gets Approval To Build The World's First Fusion Power Plant

    Most fusion projects have restrictive clearances, and they don't provide any control experiment data, such as composition of the fuel before and after delivering heat (they use lasers afaik). Even if they did, it wouldn't be valid, since equipment audits are not allowed. Thus the validity of...
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    Will NPUs soon become useless silicon? — Windows 11’s Local AI is getting GPU support

    It's much harder to make good money from selling art directly than from working a job. Most art is bought as a part of a bigger package, e.g. a game. Here's a job posting that requires Stable Diffusion. https://www.neowiz.com/en/career/browse-job/043f65b9-9c3e-4063-9a86-d73eccae503e Artists...
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    Will NPUs soon become useless silicon? — Windows 11’s Local AI is getting GPU support

    LLM-based agents are for people who don't mind their databases deleted once in a while. AFAIK private cloud complies with all of those regulations. The only exception is top secret, which is very rare. It is niche outside of potato level enterprise PCs with tiny cases which can't even fit a...
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    Will NPUs soon become useless silicon? — Windows 11’s Local AI is getting GPU support

    That's enterprise customers. Tiny market. SFX is contracting to correct over-hiring that happened 5 years ago. I give no shits about enterprise. Maybe you have a company that benefits from buying $30K boards, then I'm a total buffoon, and if not, your statements have no weight. N1X is gonna be...
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    Will NPUs soon become useless silicon? — Windows 11’s Local AI is getting GPU support

    That's only for Blackwell boards? None of those are for the consumer market. Unquantized (16 bit) this requires 60GB. Even with 4 bits, it's 15GB. I've tested unquantized DeepSeek a year ago, and the results were obviously superior to quantized for a small number of NLP tasks. It is not worth...
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    Will NPUs soon become useless silicon? — Windows 11’s Local AI is getting GPU support

    Intel already has Xe Matrix Extensions. It's used for video upscaling. Intel also has the Arc Pro dedicated NPUs. Nvidia is moving away from GPUs. AFAIK no new Nvidia GPUs till 2028. LLMs with good performance require 100+GB of memory, which makes local LLMs more or less useless in the...
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    Pentagon Blacklist Hits China AI Giants Alibaba, Baidu, and Unitree

    It looks like people value cheap stuff a lot more than domestic production. When they see a deal, they light up like an Xmas tree. It's unclear if the goal is to raise prices. It is the goal in the case of blitzscaling by companies like Uber. It doesn't seem to work well. Consumers stop buying...
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    OpenAI Files to Go Public as A.I. Companies Rush to Wall St.

    To be frank, I give no shits about Anthropic, because they're not in the consumer market.
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    Pentagon Blacklist Hits China AI Giants Alibaba, Baidu, and Unitree

    I'm not saying that. The materials price increase can be offset by subsidies. Not true. Rice prices doubled 2 years ago, and weak yen caused prices to rise. This year it's even worse. Many young people are priced out of having a car. There was a survey that showed that most had to ask their...
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    Pentagon Blacklist Hits China AI Giants Alibaba, Baidu, and Unitree

    https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202601/09/content_WS6960b0f4c6d00ca5f9a0880e.html China doesn't have deflation problems, quite the opposite actually. Food prices were a big exception, which is changing now. China's version of the CPI probably doesn't include housing, so it's the same type of...
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    OpenAI Files to Go Public as A.I. Companies Rush to Wall St.

    It's not an error. They don't disclose how long the current compute deals will last. SpaceX discounts expired in May according to the SEC filing.
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    Trump phone is an HTC with a Samsung display

    It seems like you need to buy a Trump Mobile plan to purchase the phone itself.
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    Pentagon Blacklist Hits China AI Giants Alibaba, Baidu, and Unitree

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521 Those can only be restricted if they pass something similar to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. It's unlikely to pass, but nothing should surprise us at this point.
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