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@Market_Mind_ Heads up: This data is kind of outdated, and only covers 30+ member countries of OECD, not the whole world. The actual 2024 global top 5 looks different: 1. UAE (99.5%) 2. South Korea (96.6%) 3. China (93.6%) 4. Barbados (91.4%) 5.Hong Kong (89.9%) FYI: ftthcouncil.eu/committees/mar…

South Korea leads the world in Fiber Adoption

@Market_Mind_ In plain English: it means South Korea has a massive fundamental advantage for the future of AI, cloud computing, tech tech

@MikushRab Not a technician, but these AI-generated parts looks strange to me. It feels like AI is just acting as a painter creating graphics, rather than truly reproducing a component.

Opus 4.8 just dropped and I ran it through our CAD tasks. 4.6 → 4.7 → 4.8 side by side. The results are unexpected!

@a16z I always buy way more than I need at Costco. And half of it ends up wasted. Economically speaking, it's the Supply-Volume Effect: when your stockpiles go up, your usage frequency and per-use consumption go up too

Costco is the king of low prices Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…

@Reuters Been using Tesla FSD for 2 years. Overall, it's safer than my own driving. Especially on twisty hill roads, it stays centered in the lane. Just experienced this last week on the northern part of Highway 1

Tesla exaggerates the safety of its ‘Full Self-Driving’ technology by comparing a rate of crashes in FSD-piloted Teslas that triggered airbag deployments to a federal crash rate for all vehicles that includes far less-severe accidents. The automaker also compares its cars to the average US vehicle – which is much older than the average Tesla reut.rs/4u2xLlh

My FSD has run red lights several times (Once I even made it recur), and drove against traffic a few times over the last 2 years. I send feedback to Tesla, but got no reply at all. That being said, I still use FSD everyday. It really saves me from having to pay full attention during my daily commute

Seven of Tesla's former data labelers — staffers who train the company's AI-powered driver-assistance software — told Reuters they wouldn’t trust the Full Self-Driving feature to drive them. 'We have all seen it fail,' one said reut.rs/4dBspso

@Polymarket Absolute nightmare. I always check my usage limits and monitor my API carefully in case someone hacks my account

NEW: AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage.

@minchoi At least in this video, the crowd created by AI looks extremely fake. People in a crowd don’t move in such a neat uniform way. We are not a flock of birds or zombies.

We are cooked. AI can fake crowd size now 💀 Nothing is real anymore.

Funny, Consumer Non-Durables is the best-performing sector in the stock market today

@negligible_cap Just to add: the new bonus program will continue for 10 years

Samsung has 78k workers in their semis unit. Under the new terms of the strike agreement, the semi workers will get 10.5% of company operating profits (which is incremental to their existing 1.5% bonus), creating a bonus pool worth $22.6B Average employee payout will be just under $400K. I love capitalism as much as the next guy but needless to say this is unheard of in the US

@Reuters Looks like AI companies can no longer hide behind user prompts as an excuse for generating copyrighted lookalikes. Now every AI lab is tweaking their weights overnight

China's MiniMax loses bid to end Disney copyright lawsuit over AI system reut.rs/3RvKjnM reut.rs/3RvKjnM

A huge precedent. Looks like AI companies can no longer hide behind user prompts as an excuse for generating copyrighted lookalikes Now every AI lab is tweaking their weights overnight

@TrumpDailyPosts High taxes

What is the greatest threat to liberty in America?

@Vivek4real_ Interesting. From 2023-2025, he was hyping up how jobs are 'definitely going away'. Now, after facing multiple public assaults recently, he's suddenly changing his tune

BREAKING: OPENAI’S SAM ALTMAN JUST SAID AI IS UNLIKELY TO LEAD TO A JOBS APOCALYPSE​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

@FirstSquawk I’ve seen this movie before🤡. Assembly lines still rely on workers for one simple reason: human labor is cheaper than upgrading to machines

MAJOR COMPANIES ARE STARTING TO CUT BACK ON AI USE AS COSTS IN SOME CASES ARE NOW HIGHER THAN HUMAN WORKERS.

@Cointelegraph Fair. As a rider, if AI just makes my driver matching 10 seconds faster and my ETA 1 minute more accurate, I don't think I'd want to pay $1 more for those features

🚨 LATEST: Uber president says AI spending is getting "harder to justify" as the company sees no clear link between AI usage and productivity gains.

Due to Google's aggressive AI search push, I've been hunting for alternatives. Currently testing out Kagi, and it's honestly quite good: Ad-free, clean, prioritize preferred sites, and custom "Lenses" for filtered output (like Forum/Academic/PDF). kagi.com

@TechCrunch That being said, Kagi search is also awesome: ad-free, clean, prioritize preferred sites, and custom "Lenses" for tailored output (like Forum/Academic)

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duc…

@aditiitwt That makes Liquid Cooling technology more valuable

GPUs generate so much heat they could boil water why can’t we reuse some of it to help power the GPUs again?