OpenAI is going to provide ChatGPT free to the entire federal workforce. And Anthropic is offering it to federal lawmakers in Congress for $1. I think they see that there will be a need for favorable legislation for datacenters to be built, as well as energy investments to support them. And no better way to convince Congress than to show them personally how useful LLMs can be.
GPT-5 really disappointed people. Even the NewYorker wonders if we've reached the peak with GPT-4.
Sad. Eastman Kodak may go belly-up. They weren't able to turn their company around and find something else to do.
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Three years later, Do Kwon pleads guilty to US fraud charges in $40 billion crypto collapse.
And it looks like Monero's hashrate is close to being taken over - a so-called "51%". I stay away from crypto because there are so many ways you can get screwed, especially by more knowledgeable people.
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Yeah, well if you can't do it, who can?“It's really hard to explain what Palantir works on or what it does,” says Linda Xia, who was an engineer at Palantir from 2022 to 2024. “Even as someone who worked there, it's hard to figure out, how do you give a cohesive explanation?”
Designing your website for people with cognitive disabilities. This should also be done for the rest of life. Make it easier for people to understand.
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How embarrassing. Oregon needs SNAP Watchdogs, because they screw up so often, and now there's a penalty to be paid if the amount is over 6%. Right now it's 14.06%. Can't the state do anything right?
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Tina Kotek has some big tax increases planned. We'll find out how much in a few weeks. Meanwhile Delaware's governor is finding out how bad things can get when you chase businesses out of the state. I think Oregon is going to FAFO, too.
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C'mon. A study from Portland State University concludes that the increase in overdose deaths and crime that we've been seeing is not due to Measure 110 and decriminalizing mind-altering drugs. It was rather due to COVID-19. Yeah, always blaming the virus. It's over five years since January 2020. The rest of the world has recovered from the coronavirus epidemic. The study must have been paid for by Democrats.
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