The for-profit subsidiary of OpenAI Global, LLC is 49% Microsoft owned. Basically a partnership. From this week:

(Source: MT Newswires)

We are aware of OpenAI's copyright infringements, used to train LLM models over the last two years and half of their AI safety researchers left and demanded Altman resign.

How am I supposed to understand, believe that such a partnership between them has any kind of 'best for America' or best for anyone other than their business model?

Why is user data being misappropriated? Why are there insignificant fines for each privacy breach?

Every corporate is competing for domination of algo-driven backbone infrastructure of data retention, data classification and subortinating human-roles to automated services, resulting in, for example, Apple users being eligible for a payout of $20, £16 or AU$32 if they can prove and swear under oath that Siri fed them targeted ads based on their private conversations.

You can do some cool things with AI, but this is not good for anyone.

Sorry for the rant. I have no idea but I don't trust Altman.

Wow. That's more surprising than I expected. Almost no seasonal change!

Nice summary. I'm heading back over there for work soon.

I heard that Hanoi just had a severe flood last year and was batttling high PM2.5 and general smog over the winter. Guess that's part of the price of breakneck speed urban development.

Portugal would have much lower demands on the grid during winter, right? Shows the retardness of domestic politics in the UK right now.

That's a great cartoon and pretty accurate. So, there is still some industry in Europe Brussels !!

Interesting. So, by 'paper' in 'paper gold' for example, we really mean electronic.

That's my question. according to International Organization fo Standardization

ISO 4217 Currency codes

"This standard establishes internationally recognized codes for the representation of currencies that enable clarity and reduce errors. Currencies are represented both numerically and alphabetically, using either three digits or three letters. Some of the alphabetic codes for major currencies are familiar, such as “EUR” for Euros. Fortunately, ISO 4217 covers everything from Afghanis to Zambian Kwacha as well."

Definitions and the practical application of them seem to be at least arguably not the same thing.

I don't think it has to be bad for anyone, although that's assuming that politicians were of the disposition of accommodating policies and practical solutions.

There is a great discussion about the history from inception, problems with and current state of the EU. Can't say I know as much about the flaws in policies that were discussed in that but seems to me, for all of the benefits of EEC, the problems the Euro and the Brussels apparatchiki imposes outweigh.

I can appreciate the sentiment as well as the dubious quality.

They are all pretty great ideas. I feel like they could all work together with some creativity and love. Enjoyed seeing some of these pictures updated.

It's so fucking sad to read. Nonsensical justice system. Fabrications and embellishment.

Get these chumps out of the WH and get Ross Ulbricht back to where he should be.

I like that answer. I sit in the money part of Venn. Asset and currency are always derided by opposition, which is retarded but fine. P2P electronic cash system for the win.

Ouch!

How does Boersen Zeitung in KfW campaigns for EU securitization reform characterize the third largest German banks appeal to deregulate markets through reducing due diligence?

I couldn't read the full article but to my mind, not even 20 years has passed since the mortgage backed securities crisis, so how else could we define irresponsible lending.

I was wondering about the practicalities of this. If I'm outside of the EU, and I email, message or post something directly to my contact in the EU, what would be the implication? Same treatment of scanning as EU - EU?

Happy to see that Both Germany and Austria are opposing this disgusting and pointless proposal. Disappointed that so many other members are ready to fall into authoritarianism.

Bizarre. I suppose that El Salvador could hypothesize on why IMF's loan risks have materialized.

This made me wonder about business models like those of some miner-heaters that use s9 or similar. I can't say I'm familiar with mining economics or hardware to comment on this, but from the perspective of a consumer, I'd be willing to take certain calculated risks/discounts/premiums for repurposed hardware used in new products.

Like you say, the after-sales part is a factor. I'd never expect much from warranties, and I generally overlook it when buying new hardware. I feel you just have to trust in the information you are provided at time of purchase and reputation of manufacturers. But this does lead me to think that distribution of resellers is a problem. Getting things shipped from far away is a problem, repeated tax on top of shipping is probably another. If there were affiliated distribution networks for used hardware, in the same way you might have 'authorized dealers' and 'repair' for other refurbished electronic consumer goods, that would solve a lot of problems for the industry.

Neofeudalism 2.0

I have the same feeling about the strong analytical and organizational capacity. Your comment led me to think how would a central bank 'monitor closely'.

Do you think all adjustments would necessarily need to be announced? If intentions to adjust were announced, would they necessarily have intentions to follow up with adjustments, and could central banks make unannounced micro-adjustments to see how the market reacts?

Not sure that I understand how rate adjustments flow into commercial banks and into the media consciousness.