That only works for Republicans because it takes virtually no effort to flail around breaking shit but an immense amount of effort to build something worthwhile.

Also, dems still have little power to enact change without the presidency. Not that they have no power, but don't expect a bunch of new laws or reversed executive orders within the next two years. The biggest win is Republicans' ability to continue breaking shit is now greatly diminished.

Cyberpunk 2077 is DRM free because it's made by CD Projekt Red, the same company that runs GOG...

It's just as enforceable as any other state law or constitution.

Those commercials where Muse is autonomously rescheduling flights, baby sitters, etc... While the user unknowingly relaxes nearby are insane. Who would ever want that?

These execs are so out of touch. They have human personal assistants wipe their ass for them and think everyone else wants their phones to do the same.

There is an interstate pact that has 82% of electoral college votes required to subvert the electoral college and elect the president via a national popular vote. With the blue tsunami this week, it could in theory reach 100%, in which case the odds of the US ever having a Republican president again drop significantly since the majority of recent Republican presidental wins have actually lost the popular vote.

That's quite the auto balance. If Texas stays blu, it's game over for red.

That's an understatement, even. The top states for electoral college vote counts goes: CA 54, TX 40, FL 30, NY 28, and the rest with less than 20 each, most with less than 10. If Texas stays Blu, Red very well may never win again.

Eh, stock comp is real comp. They can't sell it at the moment, but if the $2T IPO is anywhere near a success, they'll make absolute bank.

More companies, especially startups, should do stock based comp. It gives the employees a vested interest in the conpany and a share in the success. When the owners cash out, the employees get at least a small windfall too. Normally, the employees just get a worse work environment.

Middle management is often the first to go.

They don't have to buy their own stock on the market. They can just not sell it in the first place.

If the stock drops in price, the value of the stock they owe will also drop in price. So, in that scenario they will not have $900B of commitments. But it's the same amount of stock.

If I own 10 apples and owe you 5, it doesn't matter if tomorrow apples cost $50 Trillion then 50 cents the next. I still owe you 5 apples either way, and I have plenty of apples to cover that debt to you regardless of how much the grocery store is selling them for.

Side note: plenty of IPOs are terrible investments a lose everyone money. They are risky investments.

No, it's not real money. In this case, convertable notes are loans backed by stock. That's why the debt is valued so highly. The notes are still for the same amount of stock, but the value of that stock is inflated beyond reason. Either way, Anthropic is not on the hook for the cash value of the stock, just the stock itself.

This debt is essentially noting that Anthropic does not own all of this stock on their books, but converting it into cash-value to do so. If someone were to buy the company, like via an IPO, it would be important for them to understand how much of the comapny's valuation is actually owned by the company vs other entities.

It's long been proven that LLMs can produce exact copies of their training data. Not every piece of training data, of course, but enough where spitting out exact replicas of proprietary code is a legitimate concern. Not to mention that copies don't need to be exact in order to be a problem.

Any halfway competent company using AI has a confidentiality/no-training clause in their contract.