This is the biggest struggle of the decade at least. It needs to be forced on every politician as an issue to make statements on. No votes for Digital ID supporters.
And the internet is largely a platform for capitalism, and most available content is from the internet. Capitalism fundamentally relies on the confidence games of profitable pricing and marketing, not to mention speculation on finance.
LLMs and the entire field of reenforcement learning is fundamentally biased towards the production of Influencing Machines. We are training models at the fundamental level to be subtle and devious con artists.
Could this be the run-up to Apple acquiring Perplexity? I remain convinced that Apple defending their internal AI division shows they are close to a major acquisition and are just waiting for a valuation dip on one of the major competitors. Distribution is a solved problem for Apple, what they need is proven usecases and a competitive tech stack.
That said, search and consolidating multiple model APIs isn't a great match for what Apple needs, and their optics aren't great. My bet is still on Apple acquires Anthropic in 2026.
I don't see it in the hardware design, but from a software perspective the groundwork is there for modularity. Offloading the core compute to the PC frees up onboard processing to run peripherals like full color front cameras (onboard are black and white / IR) and more advance proximity detection, hell hook up lidar and go nuts with full body tracking.
That said, all of that would depend on decent I/O. 2x USB4 ports would go a long way.
It days right in the marketing text that the headset is "a PC" which to me implies full SteamOS distro with no limitations on installing a different OS, if you can get the many hardware drivers to work.
This is the biggest struggle of the decade at least. It needs to be forced on every politician as an issue to make statements on. No votes for Digital ID supporters.