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“For us, it’s just about continuing to expand the choice that people have in the marketplace of what to pursue,” Bosworth said in a Q&A. “Reaching people isn’t just about even design or style, it’s also about the price point that you can reach. So, if you’re going to be wearing the Ray-Ban Wayfarer, it’s the most popular style, and most frequently worn style of glasses in the world, and it’s iconic; you pay a premium for that.”
Basically I’m saying, “In 2027, how much compute do I get?” I could assume that the revenue will continue growing 10x a year, so it’ll be $100 billion at the end of 2026 and $1 trillion at the end of 2027. Actually it would be $5 trillion dollars of compute because it would be $1 trillion a year for five years. I could buy $1 trillion of compute that starts at the end of 2027. If my revenue is not $1 trillion dollars, if it’s even $800 billion, there’s no force on earth, there’s no hedge on earth that could stop me from going bankrupt if I buy that much compute. Even though a part of my brain wonders if it’s going to keep growing 10x, I can’t buy $1 trillion a year of compute in 2027. If I’m just off by a year in that rate of growth, or if the growth rate is 5x a year instead of 10x a year, then you go bankrupt. So you end up in a world where you’re supporting hundreds of billions, not trillions. You accept some risk that there’s so much demand that you can’t support the revenue, and you accept some risk that you got it wrong and it’s still slow.
the mockup render for a data center in the middle of downtown vancouver; it looks like someone got a hold of an evil silver obelisk and thought they could spruce up the place with a few trees
“We are the legal owner of the drugs – we are responsible for everything the bot does, as we executed the code", Domagoj Smoljo - one of the makers - told to The Guardian. “But our lawyer and the Swiss constitution says art in the public interest is allowed to be free”.
LinkedIn News Snap initiates mass layoffs
I’ve been unemployed for months now and it seems like I’ve hit a dead end with...
Glassdoor email giving previews of posts with the header of: "Catch up on the latest trending posts from the community." Post 1 Preview: "I’ve been unemployed for months now and it seems like I’ve hit a dead end with finding a job. I’ve applied to many jobs. And every time I see... [rest cut off]" Post 2 Preview: "has anyone ever gotten a job off here? or am i wasting my time"
mastodon post: i just saw a screenshot of some linux distro. i was like. what window manager is this? what UI theme? it looked kinda like one of those fancy "we're easy to use!" linux distros you see. yknow where they make it look kinda like Mac OS. but there's always some small, telltale signs: odd text alignment, unclear, monochrome icons, an overall lack of polish. you can tell it's not a *real* Mac because of those. anyway i looked a bit closer, and it actually was Mac OS. thats what a Mac looks like now
the footer section to my personal website; four two-toned icons are on the right, with the left side clarifying the current color scheme as "guy trying to figure out what old paper looked like but he only sees them in videogames"
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a screenshot of the front page to my website
The obvious argument that you could make is that Anthropic could simply increase the price of the subscription product, but I need to be clear that for any of this to make sense, it would have to do so by at least 300%, and even then that might not do the job. This would immediately price out most consumers — an $80-a-month subscription would immediately price out just about every consumer, and turn this from a “kind of like the cost of Netflix” purchase into something that has to have obvious, defined results. A $400-a-month or $800-a-month subscription would make a Claude or ChatGPT Pro subscription the size of a car payment. For a company with 100 engineers, a subscription to Claude Max 5x would run at around $480,000 a year.
a job listing for an AI ANIME ENGINEER ARE YOU KIDDING ME
a photoshop image, combining stock photos to make a very bad condo shower
a sink with the faucet right in there and the water leaking; an intercom with a handwritten note reading DON'T WORK, CALL XX-XXXX; a gas stove setting a fire alarm off
a dithered, two-tone picture of an open window with question marks in the center, as the two colors are repeatedly cycled