If I had to guess I'd say investors get their returns but non exec employees mostly get screwed.

I was involved in a (obviously smaller) situation with an acquisition that went to a top consumer CPU maker (you can guess). The investors got nothing as the buyout money was used to fund new pivots in the existing company. So no options or shares were monetized and investors maintained their existing stake that had technically the save value, just most of the value was temporarily all cash. The only people to make out were the ones who went with the asset sale (retention bonus stuff) and the leadership that stayed (raises, etc.)

A few days ago one of the top HN posts was a antisemitic conspiracy cesspool so I'm afraid we're long past that point.

Which?

Guh. Thanks. I'm glad my phone is down to 2% battery and I don't have the energy to go through all that tonight.

Is a CEO of a company serving in the military 40 years ago relevant?

maybe the "data sold to" part

> it's been 11 months

Is that supposed to be a long time? Seems fair that companies don't rush to open up their models.

That's actually one of the reasons why Google might win.

Nvidia is tied down to support previous and existing customers while Google can still easily shift things around without needing to worry too much about external dependencies.

I doubt majority of the public knows what "nano banana" or even "Gemini" means, they probably just call it "Google AI".

And I'm willing to bet eventually Google will rename Gemini to be something like Google AI or roll it back into Google assistant.

Microsoft, Google, etc are printing money despite the bubble, not because.

Don't see why they would need rescuing.

Could also just be rollout issues.

Could be. I'll reply to my comment later with pass/fail results of a re-run.

I assume the model is just more expensive to run.

Likely. The point is we would never know.

In the Iran-israel conflict it's pretty clear cut who started the rhetoric of annihilating the other side first (spoiler, it was Iran)

Anyway, I cant comprehend why anyone would try to defend the actions of the Iranian regime, it's just a horrible regime.