Oracle doesn’t need a bailout, they are loaded, and can afford this loss. But of course an investment not being as profitable as they promised means the stock goes down. It’s not like the company is anywhere near being in trouble.

Bullshit, the dataset is massive and impractical to share, and a dataset may include bias and conditions for use, and the dataset is a completely separate thing from the code. You would always want to use a dataset that fit your needs. From known sources. It’s easy to collect data. Programming a good AI algorithm not so much.
Saying a model isn’t open source because collected data isn’t included is like saying a music player isn’t open source, because it doesn’t include any music.

Your ignorance is not a valid point.

https://techwireasia.com/2025/07/china-open-source-ai-models-global-rankings/

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” last week as the upstart faces greater rivalry from Google, threatening its ability to monetize its AI products and meet its ambitious revenue targets.

Interesting that even Sam Altman is worried now!
AFAIK there are also problems that Chinese companies have their own tool chain, and are releasing high level truly open source solutions for AI.

Seems to me a problem for the sky high profits could be that it is hard to make AI lock in, like is popular with much software and cloud services. But with AI you can use whatever tool is best value, and switch to the competition whenever you want.

It’s nice that it will probably be impossible for 1 company to monopolize AI, like Microsoft did with operating systems for decades.

I 100% agree, but some would consider that a matter of ideology.
The other point about dependency on USA when they are acting with hostility is more pragmatic.

99% of people don’t understand all the reason why open source is better for public services, except if we can say it’s cheaper. That’s the one point they understand, and the one point Microsoft has been attacking most with their propaganda against open source.

This is great, But using Microsoft Windows should be illegal for public services in EU.
We can no longer allow ourselves to depend on American IT infrastructure.

I understand your frustration, but the fault is not entirely hers, the real problem is that USA has a very flawed democracy, with only 2 realistic options to vote for, where better democracies have both more and better options.
The fault was also with the democrats and Biden and Harris for failing to realize they were in the wrong position morally.
I absolutely hate that “we” got Trump, but Ilhan Omar remains an ally against him, not an enemy.

By “we” I mean the world, because I am not American. But Trump has done a lot of harm outside USA too.

Thanks for archived link. 👍 😀

The USA now has death penalty just for being suspected of a crime without evidence.
USA is a rogue nation.

False equivalence.

We’ve known for a long time that FIFA is corrupt as hell and has no morals, this is just another confirmation of that fact.

Trump lies all the time, whether he needs to or not. So you can’t use obvious lying as a tell:

And that’s not what I’m doing, I don’t give a shit about what the lying toddler spews, but it’s not just Trump, it’s also memo’s from doctors, and white house statements.

Also everybody claims he has had at least 2 extra MRI’s this year. Nobody is mentioning any other form of scan that I have seen. AFAIK the MRI thing is a factual confirmed thing at least in 2 recent cases. There are rumors there are more, but those are not confirmed.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/12/02/president-donald-trump-mri-what-to-know/87566324007/

The White House released a statement from President Donald Trump’s physician that said the MRI scan Trump received during his physical was “preventative” and the results were “perfectly normal.”

That’s when we know for sure.

That’s a straw man argument, because that is not at all what is happening.

There are several factors, first the visible evidence of IV, then the MRI scans, which are used to monitor the effect of the treatment. Then multiple symptoms Trump is showing, like fatigue and dementia, some also claim Trump has a cycle of fatigue consistent with this treatment, also rumors of repeated cognitive tests, and almost but not quite finally that this is the best treatment that exist for the suspected circumstance, and would very likely be the one chosen for the president, and finally that this treatment was approved by FDA after Trump became president.

So 1. The obvious IV, 2. Multiple MRI, 2.Obvious Symptoms, 3. Cycle, 4. Cognitive tests, 5. Best known treatment, 6. Circumstances surrounding the approval of the treatment.

These are the ones I’ve picked up even without having great interest in the issue, so there may be more. Of course not all points are equally strong, and it’s all circumstantial. But it’s false to claim it’s just the IV.

And finally as u/dhork mention, the blatant lying is a clear indication it’s something serious.

I think you mean the standard for professionals. And it was not Betamax but Betacam that was an overwhelming standard for professionals because it qualified as broadcast quality.
But Betacam was also made by Sony, and used similar technologies to Betamax, but they were no compatible.

I am not aware that any of the DVCPRO formats were ever a similar major standard for professionals. In fact this is the first time I ever heard of it, but I lost contact with the industry, so I may just be ignorant about it.

Nope. It’s also not true that it was because Betamax was too late as many claim. Betamax came out in 1975 and VHS in 1976.
So Betamax actually had a slight head start.

The reason Betamax lost was that Sony had exclusive rights to Betamax, and they tried to monopolize the market.
VHS was a way more open standard all could use, which lead to the obvious result that everybody that made video-recorders made VHS.
With the way better availability and more competition on VHS recorders, and VHS being cheaper to make to begin with, prices on VHS were way more more competitive. This was a significant factor because video recorders were very expensive early on.
The tapes were also cheaper for VHS, which probably was a factor too.

This of course led to VHS also being by far the preferred format for video shops, as there was a bigger market for VHS videos.
Some claim that the way wider availability of VHS movies in video shops was a factor too, but this was IMO more a result of more people already owning VHS videos when video shops became popular. And if you loaned/rented a moviebox with your videos, those were also always VHS, for the obvious reason that they were way cheaper for the shop.

So in short, it was all about price and availability, because that shit was expensive early on, and I bet the porn industry chose VHS for the exact same reason everybody else did. It was cheaper for them, and being cheaper for consumers too, you could reach a wider audience, meaning you could make more money.

You want Brainworms?

Gosh, what happened?

Americans elected the malignant narcissist instead of the lesser evil.

That’s OK, I wouldn’t dream of buying American RAM anyway.

Only if you use their products and allow them to profit from it.