Notices by Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to), page 2

I can’t imagine being the literal richest human being in existence and making my entire online persona that of a racist incel.

From White House AI czar to Chinese AI model evangelist.

Facing a class action lawsuit over X users creating CSAM with Grok, Elon Musk is now suing the users who used Grok to create CSAM.

The strategy here seems to be to blame the people who created the CSAM to avoid being penalized for building a CSAM generating AI.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/xai-cant-deny-grok-makes-csam-anymore-so-its-suing-users/

BREAKING: SpaceX Set to Wipe Out $1 Trillion in Value as Shares Slide Below IPO Price

During its earnings call earlier today, Netflix shared that generative AI has been used in about 300 titles this year. Its shareholder letter stated

"We are increasingly leveraging these tools to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost than traditional methods."

GenAI is here to stay.

https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/about-300-netflix-programs-used-ai-this-year-q2-earnings-1236812914/

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A group of marketing consultants once gave our leadership team at Microsoft Ads the following advice that I think about often.
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There are 3 ways to durably differentiate your brand. You either have

1. The best product
2. The best price
3. The best customer service

Everything else is middle of the road.

The movement to ban Chinese models to preserve the business models of Anthropic and OpenAI continues apace.

It’s just a matter of time before we hear that paying high AI token prices for Mythos and Fable is important for national security instead of using GLM or Qwen.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/chinese-ai-models-probe-us-lawmakers.html

Happy 250th birthday America. Home of the brave and land of the free.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that most big tech companies underreport how much water their data centers use.

They often disclose water used for cooling but omit what the power plants supplying them consume.

Meta is rare in counting both, 19B gallons in 2024 was 20x its direct use.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-data-centers-water-use-901e2902?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Over the past two years, quant funds have had a comeback in China after a dismal 2024 where they were blamed for market volatility.

In 2025, thanks to AI, Chinese quant funds beat human stock pickers by 20 percentage points.

The biggest surprise to me is that human asset managers are still so popular worldwide.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-02/china-quant-funds-draw-billions-as-ai-trounces-human-traders?trk=feed-detail_main-feed-card_feed-article-content&embedded-checkout=true

The idea that adopting AI means doing layoffs is a sales pitch to justify replacing your payroll budget with an AI token budget.

AI can perform certain tasks faster & cheaper than people but that doesn’t mean it can do entire jobs better than them.

Smart companies are figuring out this difference

I’m not saying AI doesn’t reduce the amount of workers in certain roles. Just like ATMs meant you needed fewer bank tellers at a bank, using AI tools will reduce the amount of workers in certain roles.

However this will be a gradual process not an overnight change warranting mass layoffs right away.

Gartner’s predictions are usually quite bad because they take one trend and extrapolate it to infinity.

However they do set the tone for conventional wisdom and it’s currently that AI token costs are growing unpredictably with unclear ROI.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-06-24-gartner-predicts-ai-coding-costs-will-surpass-average-developer-salary-by-2028-as-token-consumption-surges

OpenAI has shared the system card for GPT 5.6 and the key message is it’s dangerous but not THAT dangerous.

I expect all the major AI companies will pivot their safety messaging in this direction now it’s clear the Trump administration is willing to block their broad release.

Nature published a peer reviewed paper arguing that Microsoft's claims of a quantum computing breakthrough last year are based on bugs in their Python code and selectively choosing which data to base their results on.

The author of the paper claims "I demonstrate that Microsoft's tune-up software is flawed and that coding errors resulted in incorrect statements to peer reviewers"

This is extremely embarrassing for Microsoft and they've pushed back on the paper's claims.

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/24/boffin-claims-microsofts-supposed-quantum-leap-does-not-compute-due-to-basic-python-errors/5260489

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The AI industry is now operating as the world’s greatest ever transfer of wealth; from U.S. tech companies and investors to South Korean memory chip makers and their factory workers.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/sk-hynix-surpasses-samsung-south-104734639.html

As AI companies have switched businesses to token based pricing in recent months, it’s now common to hear reports of companies questioning the ROI of AI tool usage and scaling back employee adoption.

To pay for the data center investments will require even higher pricing and more business adoption but the value may not be there.

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-affordability-crisis.html?m=1

Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, has been banned from the site for using his followers on X to sway content and decision making on the site.

He’s a right winger who believes Wikipedia has a left wing bias and so he’s trying to inject “intellectual diversity.”

He must be sad a billionaire can’t just buy it.

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-cofounder-larry-sanger-banned-from-site-for-canvassaing/