The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age

That part is good at least. It also makes the California law an exercise in wasting everyone’s time and money.

They deemed them a supply chain vulnerability.

This is the justification for phasing them out and (presumably) not renewing the contract. Happens all the time. Usually with less angry internet posts and more quiet paper pushing.

It’s one of the reasons DoD things can be expensive. DoD contractors aren’t allowed to use the cheap Chinese supplier, for example.

He doesn’t say anything about breaking a signed contract. Simply that Anthropic will be phased out and no longer used by the government.

As a corollary, I doubt Anthropic’s contract will be renewed when the current one expires.

Edit: Grammar

Anthropic took a stance against their AI in weapons and battlefield management systems. The government wants that ability and therefore chose to ban Anthropic as a supplier for government systems.

All they had to do was make a copilot app that you install from the Windows store. Nobody would have disliked them for that. They probably could have even pre-installed it and people would have only groaned.

But, no, they have to just keep pushing and pushing, regardless of how many times you say no. As Rossmann says: A rapist mentality.

I sold all my back-stock of RAM. It helps relieve pressure and all that RAM was destined to sit in a box for years otherwise.

These are a massive liability every storm. You have to winch them down and get them into a blisteringly massive hangar that can hold them. Then get them set back up after. Every. Single. Storm.

Furthermore, you don’t save on land use, as you need the massive, expensive hangar for each right at their base.

Ground-based wind-turbines just feather their blades and lock their gearbox. Very simple.

Yeah, the date on the package means even less if you freeze it. Frozen meat is good for years.

(Freeze your ground beef, freeze your bread. Throwing away food is expensive!)

Whereas a more ephemeral approach that actually encourages people to ask questions? Yes, it does cause long term issues when someone is trying to debug a project that has been on life support for years.

It isn’t just long-term, it causes issues right off the bat; no fix is searchable. All fixes require a community member to respond.

• For the user this causes significant delays. A problem that could be solved in minutes with a search now requires hours or days for someone to respond to their specific problem. A problem that likely was already solved 10 times before. And god help you if the server is active, your problem might get burred instantly and no response will ever come.

• For the support people, they have to answer the same questions over and over and over because there is no way for users to search for and solve their own problems.

These issues compound on each other as support staff burn out and users get tired of waiting. Leads to people just going elsewhere.

For me, a lack of support forums signals the creators don’t care about the software working right and don’t care the software will be unmaintainable the moment they step away. Ie: a lack of support forum is a strong signal to find greener pastures.

I have a strong feeling they won’t be removing the spying, AI everywhere, ads, and bloatware. Microsoft views those as positives.

Good news is there is increased investment in nuclear energy for data centers, which will go a long way to combat this.

The U.S. government is shelling out a whopping $2.7 billion to three companies in an effort to strengthen domestic uranium enrichment, amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers.