• 3 months

    Are you americans ready for the bailout? Open your wallets wide!

  • Imagine failing this hard at your job and keeping it.

    And I know his job is to keep the stock price high… but 28 percent growth over the last five years in tech is still failing at your job.

    • Besides the usual CEO shenanigans, they really want AI to succeed, to replace usually leftist intellectuals with a far-right AI.

      • I want cold fusion, cancer to be cured for 1 dollar, and flying ponies. But I know I’m not getting those.

        They aren’t going to get true AI either.

    • 3 months

      “Double digit YoY or get out. Doesn’t matter how many people you have to fire or how hard to exploit the ones you keep. Double digit or GTFO.” -Shareholders

  • "The global race for dominance in artificial intelligence is turning into one of the most expensive and turbulent corporate competitions in history.

    Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta are expected to spend about $600 billion on AI infrastructure during 2026."

    …

    GODDAMMIT. I just realized they’re speedrunning the creation of AM.

    • 3 months

      But is it smart enough to turn to Darwin at the silicon or the molecular hardware layer, before the AI winter is here? Because it will be fimbulwinter this time.

      • Fuckin hopefully not dude, i don’t wanna see am spring into existence. I still have a mouth to scream with and I’d prefer to keep It

  • Why does Larry Ellison give me such crazy uncanny valley vibes?! Is his head too long? Moustache too narrow? Generally too smooth? It has fucked me up all day scrolling past this image.

    • 3 months

      Plastic surgery and fillers are supposed to give him a youthful appearance. Instead it makes him look like a fucking blow up sex doll.

    • 3 months

      Why does Larry Ellison give me such crazy uncanny valley vibes?!

      He turns 82 next month.

    • 3 months

      I think his gotee and hair just look like absolute shit. Further proof nobody cares about him.

    • 3 months

      It’s already irrelevant in most places. If you’re non-American you only heard of Oracle’s Sun acquisitions like mysql, virtualbox or openjdk.

  • 3 months

    I really want one or more of these AI companies to fail hard. I think their only strategy is literally to burn through billions hoping it’ll be another company that goes to the wall first and they’ll somehow reap the rewards by hanging on longer.

    • They’ve made it so they will all fail together. They’re bound. This way they can ensure a bailout, because if they don’t get a bailout, they will have a significant effect on the us economy on their way down.

  • 3 months

    No matter how much I try, all I see in this picture is Mel Brooks as President Skroob sniffing Air out of a can.

  • 3 months

    Fucking wild to read the article. Oracle got pissy because regulations said you can’t just shove datacenter electricity costs on people.