Large corpos might set up fulfilment centers in USA and do bulk import. Small companies will just stop export to USA. Setting up manufacturing in USA is unlikely with all the volatility.

Netflix appeared, piracy dropped. And when the movie streaming market fragmented, piracy shot up. Like they say, it’s a service problem.

Idea

Lab tech <- the article is here

Prototype

Mass production

So, the usual Battery Tuesday message.

Every time some new measure is released “for protection”, the next day it’s being used to sniff out dissidents. That usually means journalists, activists (political, labor, environment, …) and sympathisants to give them a bit of pressure to straight up arrest them on some pretense.

Researchers at MIT published a report showing that 95% of the generative AI programs launched by companies failed to do the main thing they were intended for — ginning up more revenue.

Allegedly the remaining 5% that makes a profit is mostly specialized in spam and spam adjacent marketing.

Oh, it’s the old “Calculation is futile. You will be… approximated!”

The company that’s involved with the payment disputes between Steam, MasterCard, banks, 18+ games and Collective Shout. Stripe is the one handling payments between Steam and MasterCard. It got blamed, blamed others in return and suddenly is known to a lot more people but not in a good way.

In the end it’s a word generator that has been trained so much it uses facts often enough to be convincing. That’s its basic architecture.

You can ask it to give a confidence level to have an indication of how sure it is of the answer.

Almost all companies deploying generative AI don’t see their revenue change significantly. AI is not the money maker people claimed it was going to be.

They’ll say that their work is mainly talking to other people

That works for account to account transfers and in shop payment with your card. The online payment world is still a lot more fragmented.

They could, but in Europe each country has at least one local payment systems. It was just more convenient to provide a few global players instead of dozens local ones. Many online shops here too is just local player + visa/Mastercard. That might change now that the global players get too controlling. (Not speaking for entire EU, just the part I visited.)

I have now a bunch of browser profiles to keep each login separate. The joys of having one Microsoft account, linked to multiple systems, but none of them want to run in the same browser profile at the same time.

The time of the classic “Keyboard missing. Press F1 to continue.”