According to Bloomberg, Apple's inference server farms are a flop: https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/02/some-apple-ai-servers-are-rep...

  the chips [...] are not powerful enough to run the latest frontier models like Gemini, which the new Siri will be based on

Here's to another 10 years of scuffed Metal Compute Shaders, I guess.

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> when the US bombs the very factories that manufacture these drones used in Ukraine, and the nation that quite frequently kidnaps european citizens as political chips

That's a US decision. The United States never invoked Article 4 over Iran, and neither did Europe. NATO has nothing to do with it.

Maybe that's just what $10 worth of labor looks like in today's economy, though. Times are tough.

> Honestly anyone who'd over index [...] is doomed unless they learn about conversion rates

Converting those sales is OP's problem. People that don't buy SaaS products are principled and their stance won't change.

All that aside, this blogpost is still tone-deaf. It's hard to see how a photo of his husband will inspire unity with the GOP administration that he relies on for protection. Blue-collar communities are not going to read his description of an AGI apocalypse and reconcile it with OpenAI's defense contracts. Altman himself empathizes with the "anti-technology" sentiment precipitating his pushback, but refuses to denounce the "AGI" nonsense and apocalyptic marketing spiel. The post is a contradiction from front-to-back, and Altman does nothing to assuage it.

If he actually wants to rally the public, why can't we see a real demonstration of how AGI is dangerous to democracy? Why can't Altman apologize for his role in enabling war crimes and extrajudicial surveillance? OpenAI's reputation is in the gutter, and Sam's "blame the government" attitude is likely responsible for torpedoing public trust.

Why is Yemen, Iran, Sudan and Ukraine still mapped then?

FWIW that's what most TOSes say for the majority of online services. Some even include arbitration clauses to prevent civil suits and class-action cases.

> China [will] sell them stuff

Being able to import advanced munitions and coordinate them with satellite intelligence is basically all Iran wants/needs. They're not interested in hiring Chinese mercenaries, sustaining a surface fleet or keeping planes in the sky - they need leverage, and their allies are giving it to them.

The support being offered is serious business, and I'm surprised that you'd write it off because Russia won't install an Iranian tripwire force and China won't cut IRGC paychecks.

If you work with engineering or CAD software then Macs aren't super common at all. They're definitely ubiquitous in the startup/webapp world, but not necessarily synonymous with programming or development itself.

It seems to do a lot of hand-wringing, but only as an extension of the current marketing campaign we've seen that surrenders responsibility to a (apparently dysfunctional) government.

The value of putting people on the moon was almost 100% nationalist, driven by the Cold War and subsequent Space Race.

> If we did not find anything valuable, then why are we going back to circle it and stuff?

The value of nationalist stunts has gone up again.

This is a serious issue, and it's very possible that "wiggle room" is what got us into this situation. Altman would have been removed as CEO if the OpenAI board of directors got their way, the pushback is not limited to public extremism. His belief that AGI is a world-scale threat is entirely unqualified, and a fatalistic framework for marketing his product.

Both OpenAI and Sam Altman would probably be safer abandoning the apocalyptic tone towards their product line. They have no proof for their claims and only escalate the anti-tech sentiment that even Altman empathizes with in the concluding paragraph. It's a transgressive viral marketing tactic that does not elevate or improve humanity's understanding of AI.

OpenAI can market democratic values very easily, I'm sure the White House loves that kind of dog-and-pony show. But it's pretty clear that OpenAI does not genuinely care about Rule of Law, let alone preventing humanitarian disasters from citing ChatGPT as their abettor.