> How did Google blow their AI lead?

Google is not an "AI company", they just happened to have been 10 steps ahead of everyone but slept on it for too long, now scrambling to catch up..

If by "happened to" you mean pour significant resources for well-over a decade on many different AI research groups then yes, that's accurate. Depending on your definition of AI, it might even be two decades.

In fact, OpenAI was founded largely with the direct goal of preventing Google from being the sole winner in AI...

Alphabet owns DeepMind, who are an AI company. In fact alphabet are lots of things, which is fine.

Yes, you're right, but Google are not an AI company in the same sense Anthropic or OpenAi are and are focused on their products differently and it kind of shows..

>Jeff (and the board) wonders if deliveries could be more efficient

And does not even care how or want to know how, just attain the goal at any cost. Of course, when word gets out that people are forced to pee in bottles, he suddenly wants to change things, not because he cares about the conditions that led to it, but because it damages his image.

Higher energy prices. Oh, you mean net positives? I can't see any unfortunately..

I agree but it's at least it's not infringing with Notepad++ name. This is an unofficial port of Notepad++ to Mac without permission from the original project.

You can block Meta surprisingly: just never join or close the current account.

You're forgetting the downstream effects of high gas prices though

How did it get here though? The west basically handed them everything on a plate and gutted the domestic industries for a quick profit. What next?

Not in the same sense the US or Russia. The Sino-Vietnamese war was brief, about a month. Compare that to US or Russian wars. Now, Im not saying that China won't start wars since they've become a lot stronger. Just looking at it through a historic perspective.

I'm sure that the people of Tibet at the very least would feel strongly about the notion of a peaceful, non-expansionist China. You could ask the people of the Philippines as well, or for an admittedly more complicated answer the people of Japan and the RoK.

China is also happily supporting Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, which makes the "not waging war" distinction a bit academic.

The US is not building infrastructure at the expense of living standard of common people. Ask Americans if they're happy about it.

This may end in a sputter.