"Army" is a loaded term. That aside, the article does a good job describing several car companies that are interested in, and well-positioned to, develop humanoid robots.
I read the article, but i don't know enough about finance to understand why this is bad.
The title makes it sound dubious, but it seems like another way of seeing it is nvidia diversifying from just selling chips to operating datacenters, via a "special purpose vehicle" (spv) entity. Instead of xai selling bonds to raise money to pay for chips, they lease usage from the spv.
Seems comparable to a new datacenter company starting up to serve xai. Since nvidia is funding the new company, though, I suppose it gives the impression there's more money in the ai market than there actually is. Xai raising debt would make it more obvious.
I like the mistake/conflict distinction, but in this case the conflict theorist People elected Elites (who proceeded to wage war on the People, broadly speaking). The dissonance hurts my brain.
Moving to "AI" and away from a well-known brand smacks of desperation. Makes me wonder if the industry-wide trend of shoving AI into every product and feature, and channelling all investment into AI, is equally desperate.
> Current AI capabilities map onto ["bullshit jobs"] with alarming precision. LLMs excel at generating plausible-sounding reports, drafting formulaic communications, summarizing information, and answering repetitive queries. They don't need genuine intelligence; they just need to automate the performance of administrative labor.
> In an era where Wall Street actively rewards companies for mass layoffs, AI presents a golden opportunity for cost-cutting disguised as "efficiency."
I had been thinking employers giving "AI" as a reason for layoffs were uniformly disingenuous, but they may be referring, in part, to performative roles.
"The Automated Ball-Strike (A.B.S.) challenge system, known informally as the robot ump, is coming to your local major league ballpark on Opening Day in 2026."
Good listen. Tldr: the markets are amoral and, morality aside, our circumstances aren't that bad. Also there's a bunch of fomo around AI and all the major AI companies are listed in the US.
"The latest sojourning object is an asteroid that astronomers are calling 2025 PN7 ... 2025 PN7 is part of a sparsely populated fleet of space rocks that briefly linger around, trail or lead Earth as the planet swings around the sun."
> how the current administration views the position of the USD
I found [0] helpful. It was written by the head of the administration's council of econ advisors (Stephen Miran), and appears to align with the admin's actions.
A recent, brief interview with an analyst on German public media ([1]) supports the idea that this is the guiding policy.
[0] recommends a gradual approach, to avoid a shock, which the admin doesn't seem to care about, so perhaps some understand the risks and others don't.
