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I used to like drinking out of the bottle in my old truck on the dirt roads behind my house when there was a blizzard going on. If you're buzzed driving through a blizzard on a dark country road, the way the falling snow looks in your headlights makes it seem like you're flying a spaceship and the snowflakes are stars...if that's where your mind wants to take you....like an autostereogram. Please note: Do not try this on the expressway!

Add a little LSD to that and it is really wild!

"...Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google: Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry..."

A Communique from our President:

Message from a  "native" "American"

Natives need to bear firmly in mind that if the demographics of this nation wildly vary from the traditional white majority, it won't be some great development for us.

It will be the opposite. We share a history with the whites, good and bad, but it's behind us now. The whites like and admire us, and as little as some of us want to admit it, they have helped us enormously.

The newcomers don't give a damn about us. We have no history with Pakistanis or Afghans or whoever. They are coming to conquer, that's it.

If we don't stand with the whites, we will fall together. It's that simple.

"...An AI price war is brewing.

Corporations are reeling after finding that the cost to access powerful AI tools is soaring — despite showing no clear payoff. In one particularly unfortunate incident, according to Axios, the CFO of a company accidentally racked up half a billion dollars in Claude usage fees in a single month.


Put simply, the horrible economics of AI are finally starting to rear their ugly head. Astronomical capital expenditures by AI companies are starting to trickle down to users — and they’re not liking what they’re seeing.

Meanwhile, as the Wall Street Journal reports, executives at OpenAI are pondering whether to kick off a price war with the company’s biggest competitor, Anthropic. By dramatically lowering prices, the company’s reportedly hoping to steal users, while also anticipating similar price cuts by its competitor.

Put simply, pricing is turning into a major headache for AI leaders.

“That went from, at the beginning of this year, an issue that never came up — people were totally happy with the amount they were spending — to all of a sudden, a huge issue,” OpenAI CEO Altman admitted during an event last week.

“I think we’ll have a lot of ways we can help people get more value for less spend,” he added.

It’s a major conundrum for all players involved. AI companies have been bleeding tens of billions of dollars as costs for data center construction projects mount. Cutting prices now could make the situation even more dire, deteriorating already disastrous profit margins..."

He casts out demons...