Amazon will spend $200B this year on AI infrastructure — including data centers — while forging ahead with over 30,000 layoffs.
And don't forget: the company paid nearly $8B less in taxes last year thanks to Trump's big ugly bill.
This is what corporate greed looks like.
I've had so many conversations with non-technical friends & family who are completely duped by headlines like this.
I also think it's sad to not tell the public about the huge range of AI/ML research. It would be so cool if the public knew how many cool new methods exist, LLMs are just the surface
They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
Mon Mothma said what needed to be said in opposition to an evil, authoritarian regime.
In general relativity, a point mass just sitting there is inevitably a black hole. But that's when you're living in 3d space (and one dimension of time). In 2d space, a point mass creates a less drastic singularity: a 'cone point'. I've been studying these cone points lately, just for fun.
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If you tax a billionaire 8%, you know what they still are?
Still a billionaire. Their kids' kids' kids' kids are gonna be rich.
Maybe they could pay a little bit more so that all of our kids can go to good schools and travel functional roads and get good healthcare.
Elon Musk incited pogroms in Belfast.
IMO, senior faculty at top R1 institutions rushing to use AI to flood journals with papers before future students or early career researchers can have an opportunity is not just greedy, it's salting the earth of the discipline.