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Has generative AI made material progress on curing cancer? Has it produced any breakthroughs, at all?

In b4

- it’s the worst it’ll ever be - big leaps happened the fast few months bro

Etc.

Personally I think llm’s can be very powerful in a narrow-band. But the more substance a thing involves, the more a human is needed to be involved.



This already exists, but you have the markets backwards. Microsoft wants to force the cruft onto everyday users; it subsidizes the cost of the operating system license. Home users can be conned into paying for OneDrive or Copilot subscriptions much more easily than enterprises can. On the other side, Windows Server is their lightweight version, and it's made for the only customer that Microsoft respects: ones that paid in full upfront.

What makes the statistics published by the government inherently more trustworthy?


> Upgrading your CPU wasn’t a spec sheet exercise — it was transformative.


What happens when law enforcement members are the stalkers?


Every unique Google search triggers a Gemini request.


US GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was 0.1% when you take out NVIDIA and OpenAI sending the same $100 billion back and forth to each other


They massively over-estimated demand [1] and produced tens if not hundreds of thousands of units that didn't sell. This is them trying to liquidate their inventory of components.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2024/10/vision_pro_bites_dog


Your article refutes that and says sales are totally at expectations?


> According to Grok

Do you have any sources that aren't prone to hallucination and fits of partisan, racially-charged, conspiratorial hysteria?



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