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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

The thought that comes to mind for me is that all of the tech companies are in a heavy cycle of stock/investor profit mode. It seems like every major company is just pumping the bottom line for stock gains.

I know that can lead to R&D money and advances, but I'm only really seeing that with M$ buying (I mean partnering) ChatGPT for their CoPilot to be the next big thing for Office/Microsoft 365.

What has Apple done new lately? iPhones just get better specs right?

Google, being the subject of the article, they do seem like they're getting their butts kicked trying to compete with OpenAI.

Broadcom buys VMware (which wasn't really doing anything wildly new IMO lately), openly plans to milk it for profit, and has been pretty honest about not giving a shit about customers, until their latest post where they are trying to speak against the obvious aforementioned 'not-giving-a-shit'

Who else?

Any major innovations lately not coming to my mind, or all just bottom line pumping?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

HPE just made the fastest supercomputer in the world by 2.5x the closest system in 2nd place a couple years ago. Frontier breaking the exascale barrier was pretty huge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Now that's more upbeat. Good call.

I'll have to go see if they're doing anything cool with it, it just trying to fix male pattern baldness. I'm thinking of an Idiocracy reference...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oak ridge labs. They don't run fluff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm betting you're right. Hopefully they can crack that last inch holding us back from some sweet ass fusion power, or some kind of cancer+everything else miracle cure...

The pictures look cool anyway.

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