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  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • nobody wants the damn things he says as he types on a website hosted in a data centre, protected by cloudflare one of the biggest data centre users in the world

    you don’t like data centres but people sure love youtube and facebook which comes out of them

  • You will own nothing and you will like it!

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  • Was anyone buying them?

  • AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them

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  • tbh it was a good discussion but I've actually got nothing else to say really, we pretty much agree with each other 😅

  • The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower

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  • top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757440

    2025 is such old news that this just isn't relevant.

    METR already redid the study at a later date and now finds a likely 18% speedup

    "For the subset of the original developers who participated in the later study, we now estimate a speedup of -18% with a confidence interval between -38% and +9%" (note their use of - and + here could be slightly confusing but they do mean 18% faster per the post)

    https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/

    must be heart breaking for Lemmy 😭

  • Lumo 2.0 is out

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  • Lumo is like my 3rd tier AI that I use, I use Mistral (paid) but if I don't like the code it's producing or how it's thinking I use Claude free, if that runs out of tokens then I use GLM and if I'm not happy with that then Lumo but I've heard good things about 2.0

    I might switch up and use Lumo after Claude if I run into issues in future

  • AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them

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  • They’ve booked future profit from OpenAI owing them almost a trillion dollars. If OpenAI can’t pay that bill when the time comes, Oracle is completely fucked.

    I'd say they're the ones most likely to get screwed on this but I just don't see how a tech titan drawdown causes the whole world go into a great depression

    This isn't 1987 where only upper middle class people invest in stocks, everyone has a stock app on their phone these days, if jobs aren't lost money will continue to pump because line goes up

    Maybe I'm just too optimistic but if captain dickfingers giving the world a tariff hit, a global pandemic and "the worst oil crisis ever" can't put a dent in things, I just don't think a pullback on AI spend is going to do it (unless there's a ton of other structural problems in the global economy that bloggers will point out how obvious it was only once it fails)

    Bad comparison. Spotify has already been a profitable, publicly-traded company for years.

    That doesn't wipe my memory of listening to reddit users and lemmy users since 2012 talk about how streaming music is unprofitable and will go broke any day, to which I argued they are after market share (to which I received many a downvote, lemmy eh?)

    Remember how Uber was about to go broke? Not going to lie, this literally feels like just more circlejerking about companies that are spending a lot and will go broke any day now...

    5 minutes ago Lemmy was comparing AI to NFT's and Crypto, in 2026!

    Sorry if I hold a grudge and you are not as dim-witted and not good with computers as the average lemmy user, it's hard to shake hearing the same prophecies I've been hearing about other high spending companies for decades

    And without seeing GAAP accounting showing where all the money goes in support of inference, I am highly doubtful that it’s profitable.

    You're right but we do have a little bit of an idea:

    On inference alone, both companies project profitability

    https://aiafterhours.substack.com/p/openai-vs-anthropic-the-121-billion

    https://www.tradingkey.com/analysis/stocks/us-stocks/261756528-anthropic-openai-ipo-tradingkey

    Anecdotes aren’t data

    I didn't just say an anecdote, I linked to this as well:

    Anthropic’s Insane Enterprise Surge Made Them #1 by Early 2026

    https://lemmy.world/post/48781135

    Maybe even a little

    Claude is now embedded in 60% of Fortune 500 companies' productivity suites as of Q2 2025

    They are very clearly in the business segment, I've heard nothing like this for Qwen or GLM or local hosted models, in fact when self hosting was bought up the dev's mentioned "??? you can't self host claude ??"

    I work with actual machine-learning engineers

    This is like saying I work with actual system admins, they say that Windows is terrible and that it'll be the year of the linux desktop any day now

    You need to vibe check the office and devs vs the engineers

    The vibe in the office (and what I'm reading) is that claude is gold

    That said I spoke to a normal person the other day and they hadn't heard of claude at all, blew my mind

  • trains rule

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  • a video with dozens one liner arguments that cannot be addressed without writing half a book.

    Because you keep doing stuff like this, don’t bother writing a book, half a book, or even a paper, the idea you can convince me with something that no one in 50 years in Australia hasn’t thought of is insulting to the thousands of people and engineers who have worked on making it a reality

    Here’s a serious video for you

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8nEaa3UI5QA

    and if you go on youtube you’ll find a dozen more that go into it

    If you’ve got 150 billion in your back pocket let me know and we can get started on this thing

  • trains rule

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  • Please stop down voting comments you disagree with, it makes you look like a dick

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    One trivial error... sheesh. Some people have no sense of humor. /s

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  • AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them

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  • No business that is built entirely on AI is profitable. Not one.

    The major players behind them all

    nvidia, microsoft, google, oracle, etc are all profitable

    Training is an ongoing expense, not a startup expense.

    inference is profitable, training is not

    training is what the majority of data centre spend is going towards

    if they want to be profitable pull back the training but right now they are competing for market share

    feel free to look back at all the times lemmy predicted the end of spotify because it wasn’t profitable, now they turn around and cry it’s making money

    Qwen, running in a well-designed harness such as OpenCode, with a carefully written AGENTS.md file, is of comparable performance to at least Claude Sonnet, and possibly Claude Opus. All without the massive, ludicrous infrastructure requirements.

    At work nobody is talking like this, everyone is talking about claude and it makes sense, it’s the best thing since vscode

    https://lemmy.world/post/48781135

  • trains rule

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  • trains rule

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  • No it doesn’t

    Notably, as shown in Figure 1, passenger cars accounted for 73.0% of passenger-km travelled in the EU-27 in 2022 – the largest of any mode of transport

    Public transport activity reached around 995 billion passenger-km in the EU-27 in 2019. This represents a 2.2 percentage points reduction in the share of these modes in the total transport activity compared with 1995. This share reached approximately 16.6% in 2019

    https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/sustainability-of-europes-mobility-systems/passenger-transport-activity

    Cars > Trains

  • trains rule

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  • i give up mate, if you can’t read i can’t help you

  • trains rule

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  • trains rule

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  • Earbuds.

    Yes they are in my ears 24x7, I do like listening through my speaker though

    Never seen that over here, what are yall doing differently?

    Where are you? I bet I can find out pretty quickly you have security teams on your trains at night

    You must have excessively shitty trains if having to pay attention to traffic while sitting in 1 position can be more comfortable than sipping tea in a dining car, free to stretch your legs or just using a laptop at your seat.

    It's really not that hard to drive and I would rather get to work in 30 minutes than sit around for an hour, the comfort difference is minimal to me, especially so if it's busy and trains are packed, then nobody is stretching your legs

  • trains rule

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  • Please don't downvote just because you have a different opinion, it makes you look like a dick

  • trains rule

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  • Funnily enough your own map shows how Australia is actually perfectly siuted for extensive rail

    Yes, it has been attempted many many many times, it's now parodied in our own parks and rec style comedy program:

    Is A High-Speed Rail Possible In Australia? | Utopia

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8av3knflbQo

    certainly also has the population to support one as well

    I don't think you are noticing just how sparsely populated we are and how big those mountains are in between the cities

  • trains rule

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  • trains rule

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  • I mean that's fine but that doesn't answer my original point when 3/4th's of people are using cars to get around, this public transport paradise is limited to inner city and highly dense locations, and even then 50%+ of people are still using cars

    Doesn't scream public transport is a winner

    I also much prefer driving in my car listening to music and not having little shits on the train making a racket and running around and my car is more comfortable and when I want to go down to GYG at 11pm for a cheeky fries run I'm not standing out in the dark and cold in my suburb (not the nicest) waiting for a bus to turn up and then the same thing on my way back, that would be the pits

    Maybe this works in a big urban centre but the whole world is not a big urban centre

  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air · Hugging Face

    huggingface.co /zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air
  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    The EU-US Trade Deal Explained: A One-Sided Disaster? - EU Made Simple

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    Mistral AI parie sur la transparence en rendant public son impact environnemental

    www.lemonde.fr /economie/article/2025/07/22/impact-environnemental-de-l-ia-mistral-parie-sur-la-transparence_6622984_3234.html
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    Le Chat dives deep. | Mistral AI

    mistral.ai /news/le-chat-dives-deep
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    Apple needs to spend real money to bring in outside talent — and that likely means acquiring a leading AI startup. It has already kicked the tires on Perplexity and will seriously consider Mistral

    www.bloomberg.com /news/newsletters/2025-07-13/is-apple-going-to-replace-ceo-tim-cook-who-is-the-next-ceo-of-apple-ternus-md1mhrj4
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)

    ethz.ch /en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html
  • Green Energy @slrpnk.net
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    Solar is EU’s biggest power source for the first time ever | Ember

    ember-energy.org /latest-insights/solar-is-eus-biggest-power-source-for-the-first-time-ever/
  • Australian News @aussie.zone
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    Synagogue set alight and Israeli-owned restaurant targeted in Melbourne

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-07-05/police-investigate-arson-attack-at-east-melbourne-synagogue/105497760
  • Australian News @aussie.zone
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    Residents say workers losing 'absurd' erosion fight against raging sea

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-07-01/central-coast-residents-asked-leave-homes-erosion-fears/105480510
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people)

  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    AMD’s Untether AI Deal - Bad Signs for GPU-Driven AI training

    semiconductorsinsight.com /amd-untether-ai-acquisition-gpu-training/
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

    news.ycombinator.com /item
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    How Hungry is AI? Benchmarking Energy, Water, and Carbon Footprint of LLM Inference

    arxiv.org /pdf/2505.09598
  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    Trump’s 50% Tariff - The EU has 3 Options

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    mistralai/Devstral-Small-2505 · Hugging Face

    huggingface.co /mistralai/Devstral-Small-2505
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    Announcing Gemma 3n preview: powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI

    developers.googleblog.com /en/introducing-gemma-3n/
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    StackOverflow activity down to 2008 numbers

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    Technically correct

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    AI-generated videos now possible with gaming GPUs with just 6GB of VRAM

    www.tomshardware.com /tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/framepack-can-generate-ai-videos-locally-with-just-6gb-of-vram
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    France providing intelligence to Ukraine, minister assures after US freeze

    kyivindependent.com /france-providing-intelligence-to-ukraine-minister-assures-after-us-freeze/