The theat model with tech has always been that if an attacker has physical access to the device and time then it's game over.

Sure, IF we could just go and fix our governments in some magical way then the problem would disappear. That goes from hunger, climate change, videogame addiction and AI. The problem is that what you value in life in different than what others do, so we now have a system in which sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you don't.

But back to the topic, I do think that how OpenAI and Anthropic handled the government and them asking to drop guardrails is something a company can actually and actively do without having to reinvent the universe.

I still think that you'd find better French bread at any average French town than in Japan, given my personal experience living there.

And sure maybe not upscale Tokyo but Japan is not just Tokyo.

OP mentions curry, bread, pizza, etc. Those are things most gaijins complain about when in Japan!

Can't find a proper piece of bread that isn't sweetened, or you find a French chain doing something almost similar but still not on par with breads found in France.

I helped at a pizza shop near Fuji city and while it was not bad, they weren't quite there yet.

I can say that some foods are not bad but saying that they do things inherently better? C'mon now.

Still haven't found a decent thai or indian restaurant in Japan, and probably never will, given the general aversion for strong spices.

If you're growing obviously it's stupid to fire but if you have plateau'd the easiest gain is to trim the fat, so to speak. Also once a company is acquired by a private fund, everyone becomes a title and a number in a spreadsheet, that's all.

I wish someone sent me one of theirs gathering dust for free, lol