Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle by Ed Zitron

That’s $15 billion a year in compute costs, but reduced to an indeterminately-discounted level for the precise months that Anthropic is using to tell investors and the media that it has an operating profit. That operating profit is a result of accountancy rather than any improvements to its business model.

It just does not feel right reading this. The unit economics would never let them turn profitable. Or so it seems. The costs will increase linearly with revenue.

Whenever I read about these companies I always think back to a novel I had read in the Foundation series, where they talk about a technology which was awesome but the costs never made sense. So there’s one working artifact in the entire place and that’s it.

This feels similar. Maybe this side of the business will always run at cost or at loss and they are all looking for people to pay them more of other ways for people to pay them money.

Gemini will use Volvo’s external cameras to interpret parking signs by Andrew J. Hawkins

Gemini is gaining the power of sight and mobility. Today at the I/O conference, Google and Volvo announced that the AI-powered assistant will be able to access external cameras in the upcoming EX60 SUV to help explain and interpret its surroundings to vehicle owners. The upgrade is possible thanks to Volvo’s use of Google’s embedded Android Automotive as its vehicle operating system.

This will be a useful feature. I find myself using Claude to interpret the signs all the time. It would be a better experience if you get it in the car directly.

Finland did not overreact to Friday's suspected drone incursion, minister says

Many other countries have SMS-based alert systems that do not require people to have a third-party app installed to receive essential alerts and information, as they are sent directly to the devices.

I was wondering about this when the thing happened on Friday. The first I came to know about it was a WhatsApp message in a group. Then after follow through got a message that the situation had cleared.

All the while, I kept thinking, I should have received a message on my phone - directly from the government - as a push notification or SMS. Weird that we don’t have it here in Finland.

Leaked images show Microsoft’s new Xbox Cloud Gaming controller by Tom Warren

But this Xbox Cloud Gaming controller is separate and designed to compliment Microsoft’s expanded cloud gaming efforts with Game Pass. It will connect directly to Xbox Cloud Gaming servers to reduce latency, much like how Google’s Stadia controllers used to work.

I am interested to see how this all works out.