Lightcap likened this usage to cloud services, which Amazon Web Services pioneered two decades ago. While the consumer business may grow faster since people can adopt it at will, enterprise is in the "process of building up," he said.
"There's a buying cycle there, and a learning process that goes into scaling an enterprise business," Lightcap said. "AI is going to be like cloud services. It's going to be something that you can't run a business that ultimately is not really running on these very powerful models underneath the surface."
Later that week, OpenAI accused DeepSeek of improperly harvesting its models in a technique known as distillation. Lightcap said the new competition hasn't changed the way OpenAI thinks about open source, their product road map or mega-spending plans.
"DeepSeek is a testament to how much AI is like entered the public consciousness in the mainstream -- it would have been unfathomable two years ago," he said. "It's a moment that shows how powerful these models are and how much people really care."
Besides DeepSeek's emergence, OpenAI has also been dealing with a tense time on the legal front.
The second war was not one of conquest but the putting down of a revolt. Toynbee suggests that it was the time of establishment of the Lycurgian reforms, not earlier as others have suggested. His reasoning was that the Spartan commoners would have demanded rights in return for their help in protecting the new kingdom.
Let’s look at this is a little more detail. Many of the ancients, including Thucydides connect Lycurgus with the militaristic Spartan system we’re all familiar with and set his date farther back than it should be. In reality we don’t know when Lycurgus lived or whether he even existed. It has been written that the Lycurgian reforms were put into place to overcome the domestic instability in Sparta existing before that time. What was the cause of this instability and when did it occur? A logical explanation derives from the rapid conquests preceding the Second Messenian War. In the period from 760-720 B.C. Sparta conquered Amyklai, Aigiai, Gythion, the lower Eurotos Basin, the Tagetan Minyai, and Stenyklaros – a vast amount of territory to try and control. The administrative challenges associated with these conquests must have been formidable.
Oppo is hoping it can win business from the likes of Samsung and Chinese tech giant Huawei, both major smartphone players seeking to shake the market out of an innovation slowdown with flashy new models that can bend.
Earlier this week, Huawei launched the Mate XT, a "trifold" phone with three screens, outside of China for the first time.
If you notice the UK and other countries have increased US Treasury holding at a greater percentage then China has decreased holding; this is good for the US economy to diversify from China having such leverage over our market. It is best if the gradual decline which has been occurring continues over the next decade or so until they have divested completely, from a global security standpoint. And I think it will because they could use the liquidity to support their debt burden and as trade volume decrees between the US and China as projected reserve percentages would need to be reduced for both sides as well.
Like many other smartphone makers, Oppo is investing more into artificial intelligence-focused features on the device.
The Oppo Find N5 has a triple-camera setup that includes a telephoto lens that can zoom in up to 30x thanks to assistance from an AI-powered image enhancement feature, dubbed AI Telescope Zoom.
It also comes with a personal AI assistant that can interpret and summarize documents, generate summaries of phone calls and translate video calls and other content displayed on the screen.
With the risk of revolt great and the administrative challenge daunting, the ruling class must have realized the importance of a citizen-based military (hoplite phalanx), and they may have been pushed in this direction by the commons who wouldn’t serve without receiving a property allocation. One piece of evidence to support this is found in Aristotle’s Politics.
“When the difference between the rich and poor is too extreme, the situation is particularly apt to be produced by wars. This too happened at Lacedaemon at the time of the second war with the Messenians. The evidence for this is found in Tyrtaios’ poem Eunomia where he says that there were Spartans who were so hard pressed economically by the war that they demanded that the country be carved up into allotments.”
Oppo also talked up a new feature that enables users to connect their phone to a Mac computer. Using an app called O+ Connect, users can link the Find N5 to any Mac desktop machine and instantly transfer photos and other files between devices — so long as they're connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
Users can also choose to remotely control a Mac from the Find N5. The Mac's display can shut off and then reappear on the Find N5's screen. The remote control feature only requires mobile internet or Wi-Fi to sync up a Mac device's data with the Find N5 in real-time.
The Spartan leadership was certainly in a position to allocate land because of the enormous size of the conquered lands. So the devil’s bargain was made – land to the commons in exchange for their willingness to fight in phalanx formation.
It seems that the new structure would have been instituted in a single step because of its interdependency. The need for a new kind of army generated a new constitution and social system. Of course a constitution can be created as a single event while changes in a social system take time and generations to take hold. Even the governmental changes must have occurred over time. For example, the Ephors had to transition from advisors to the king to being elected by a citizen assembly which did not exist before the reforms.
The feature uses public macOS application programming interfaces, which enable two different apps to communicate with each other. Oppo said O+ Connect "fully complies with macOS platform and software regulations."
Ben Wood, chief analyst at market research firm CCS Insight, told CNBC the Find N5 "shows the art of the possible when engineering a product with flexible display technology."
Wood added that, while Huawei's triple-screened Mate XT led to some fanfare, "commercially I think the smart money is still on the book-like form factor already offered by Samsung, Honor, Google and now Oppo."
Samsung teased a trifold smartphone prototype at its January Unpacked event for the launch of the Galaxy S25. It's not clear yet if the phone is a product Samsung will launch commercially anytime soon.
Touting America as "the leader" in the technology, Vance said that the U.S. wants its European allies to foster a more favorable attitude to the technology than it has done to date.
"To create that kind of trust, we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of AI technology rather than strangles it, and we need our European friends in particular to look to this new frontier with optimism rather than trepidation," Vance told attendees at the Paris summit.
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the first day of in-store sales of Apple's latest products at Apple's Fifth Avenue store in New York, US, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024.
Apple is releasing a new low-cost iPhone as sales have been mixed in recent quarters and the company seeks growth for its most important product category. For the December quarter, Apple's overall iPhone sales were down 1% on an annual basis. Apple still sold more than $69 billion of phones in the period.
Low-end iPhones are important to Apple as it gets new customers into their ecosystem, and the new device supports Apple Intelligence, making it Apple's least expensive new phone that can access features like image generation and notification summaries.
In recent years, Apple has started to quietly release new products through press releases, such as the new Macs it announced last September. It may be testing how much buzz it can get for one of these quieter launches. Last week, ahead of Wednesday's launch, Apple CEO Tim Cook posted a message on social media: "Get ready to meet the newest member of the family."
Rather than run its own data centers, Baseten runs its software on data center equipment from cloud providers, including Amazon and Google. Customers can supply their own infrastructure with an enterprise tier. By drawing from multiple providers, Baseten offers access to more GPUs than a single cloud's current supply.
"In this market, your No. 1 differentiation is how fast you can move. That is the core benefit for our customers," co-founder and CEO Tuhin Srivastava said. "You can go to production without worrying about reliability, security and performance."
Companies can manage the deployment of their models without Baseten, but securing enough Nvidia chips in the right geographical areas can prove difficult, co-founder Amir Haghighat told CNBC.
Cloud providers sometimes inform customers that some GPUs will be moved into maintenance mode and become unavailable within minutes. Baseten helps its clients handle those instances without interruptions, Srivastava said.
After the January breakthrough of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which claimed its models were trained for a fraction of the costs as its U.S. counterparts, efficiency in AI has become more important than ever.
Baseten was quick to add support for DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model that compares to OpenAI's o1. Baseten's website promises top-tier performance at a fraction of OpenAI's cost. There has been a lot of inbound from organizations looking at switching to DeepSeek, and Baseten has been busy trying to keep up, Srivastava said.
Under former President Joe Biden, the United States lauded Zelenskyy as a hero and hammered Moscow with sanctions as Ukraine battled against advancing Russian troops.
But Trump has been critical of Zelenskyy, claiming he has subverted democracy and blaming him for starting the war that began with Russia's full-scale invasion three years ago.
"A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Zelenskyy was elected in 2019 for a five-year term and has remained leader under martial law imposed as his country fights for its survival.
Putin said U.S. allies "only have themselves to blame for what's happening," suggesting they were paying the price for opposing Trump's return to the White House.
Tensions between Zelenskyy and Trump over the new U.S. position on the war had been building for weeks.
But Zelenskyy struck a more positive tone ahead of Thursday's meeting with Kellogg, saying "it is very important for U.S. that the meeting and our work with America in general be constructive."
"Together with America and Europe, peace can be more reliable, and this is our goal," he added.
Russia, which for years has railed against the U.S. military presence in Europe, wants a reorganisation of the continent's security framework as part of any deal to end the Ukraine fighting.
Please foster more ideas on how Grok will be a game changer for passengers, people in the car and at a higher level like what Herbert did in his channel yesterday. It has been suggested that someone will have many context sensitive Grok’s that will be able to anticipate and adapt to you in the car, at work, sentimentally, when in company so as to respect your privacy when together with others and very personal when you are alone. So Grok will have different profiles depending on the situations you are in and will draw on the pertinent versions of “you” Essentially anticipating and adapting to you in the various circumstances you find yourself in a day or night … funny,
I’ve been reading a great book called Some Problems of Greek History by Arnold Toynbee, the well known English historian, which was published in 1969. Toynbee is best known for his The Study of History, a monumental work published in 1934 and 1939. This significant contribution to comparative history has been criticized for a variety of reasons mostly around his assumptions and use of questionable data. Still, A Study of History is worth reading because of its unique approach.
Some Problems of Greek History does not create controversy and is a rigorous review and dissection of all data known about parts of Greek history -- mostly Sparta. In my last post, I talked about the origins of Sparta and Lacedaemon. This time, we’ll review the expansion of Sparta geographically through the lower Peloponnese.
California privacy regulator seeks to fine Florida data broker after huge breach of Social Security numbers
The California agency said National Public Data failed to register in the state as a data broker.
California’s privacy regulator is asking a court to fine a data broker that lost hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers in one of last year’s biggest data breaches.
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), which enforces California’s state rules on data protection and privacy rights, known as CCPA, said Thursday that it is seeking a fine of $46,000 against National Public Data for failing to register as a data broker in the state.
The future of AI is expected to be shaped by a combination of technological advancements, with a significant impact on society. Generative AI models have shown immense promise, but their limitations have also become well known. As a result, the future of AI is being defined by a shift toward both open source large-scale models for experimentation and more specialized applications.
In the near term, AI is likely to continue powering automation and data analysis, with widespread adoption of autonomous machinery and AI-powered personalization expected. Quantum computing, still in its infancy, will potentially power AI algorithms in the future, supercharging their ability to process huge datasets and solve complex problems.
Machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence that can learn without explicit programming by a human, will play a key role in the future of AI. Tokenization, or creating digital representations of real things, will also be important.
The future of AI holds immense potential to reshape industries, jobs, and daily lives. It is expected to increase efficiency and improve decision-making through data analysis. However, adequate precautions must be taken to avoid exacerbating existing inequities.
By 2028, the number of human lawyers in the U.S. could be cut by 25% or more due to generative AI's ability to provide rudimentary summaries of applicable laws and draft contract clause language. Transportation and other industries will also be impacted by the advancement of AI.
Overall, the future of AI looks promising but requires careful consideration of its potential impacts on society.
Sparta conquered Laconia and Messenia during the eighth century B.C, a date which Toynbee points out is more accurate than theoretical dates farther back which are unsupportable. Most notably, he asserts that the two Spartan royal families were extended backward by myth to Herakles, a connection that cannot be (and according Toynbee) should not be made. To him, the Dorian invasion and fall of Mycenae are not connected directly to the rise of the Lacedaemonians.
The first step in the expansion of Sparta was the conquest on Amyklai (eighth century timeframe unknown) and its incorporation into Sparta as an equal. This victory gained Sparta an influential ally and opened up southern Laconia to them. The Spartans then continued their southern expansion through Aigytis until they reached the coast, circa 720 B.C. I use that date because the Italian colony of Tarentum was founded by Sparta in the time period 708-702 B.C. and for Sparta to have sent colonists to Italy, she would have needed to control of a port for some period of time. That port was most likely Gythion, which we know was a Spartan naval base by 413 B.C.
While Sparta gave Perioecic status to the communities of the Mani peninsula down to Cape Tainaron, the lower Eurotos Valley was conquered and forced to choose between enslavement and deportation. This was the beginning of Helotry and the use of Messenian lands for agriculture.
Per the CPPA, its action against National Public Data is its sixth enforcement effort against a data broker since its inception. The previous five actions ended in settlement agreements, the agency said.
Salvatore Verini, the owner of Jerico Pictures, the parent company of the hacked data broker National Public Data, did not respond to a request for comment.
The Spartans as Lacedaemonians
The region of the Peloponnese which held the Spartan people was called Lacedaemon (now Laconia) and the Spartans were known as the Lacedaemonians from at least the fifth century B.C. By that time, Lacedaemon was used interchangeably with Sparta when referring to the political entity. What happened before that time?
In the Iliad, the land ruled by Menelaus is referred to as “a hollow” which is “scarred with ravines”, certainly an apt description of the Spartan lands as they look today. But if the setting of the Iliad was the Mycenaean Age, the residence of Menelaus would have been a castle. Where was it? Toynbee speculates that the original “Sparta” may have been at Therapne or Amyklai, nearby towns that date back to the Mycenaean time.
The future of AI agents is expected to be significant, with these agents playing a crucial role in various industries and aspects of our lives. Here's a list of areas where AI agents are expected to be prevalent:
Virtual Assistants: AI agents will be used as personal assistants, helping with tasks such as scheduling, reminders, and information retrieval.
Customer Service: AI-powered chatbots and virtual agents will become more common in customer service, providing 24/7 support and helping with queries and issues.
Healthcare: AI agents will be used in healthcare to help with diagnosis, patient care, and medical research.
Finance: AI agents will be used in finance to help with tasks such as portfolio management, risk analysis, and financial planning.
Transportation: AI agents will be used in autonomous vehicles, helping with navigation, route optimization, and safety.
Education: AI agents will be used in education to help with personalized learning, tutoring, and student assessment.
Cybersecurity: AI agents will be used in cybersecurity to help detect and prevent threats, as well as respond to incidents.
Smart Homes: AI agents will be used in smart homes to control lighting, temperature, security systems etc
Retail: AI agents will be used in retail to help with inventory management sales forecasting
Supply Chain Management: AI Agents can analyze data from various sources track shipments predict demand
These areas are expected to experience significant advancements in the use of AI agents over the next few years leading fundamental changes various industries aspects life
The question of whether AI will ever be conscious is a complex and debated topic among experts. Consciousness refers to the state of being aware of one's surroundings, thoughts, and emotions. While AI has made significant progress in recent years, the creation of conscious AI is still a subject of ongoing research and discussion.
There are several barriers to creating conscious AI:
Lack of understanding of human consciousness: Despite significant research, the nature of human consciousness is still not fully understood. It is difficult to create conscious AI when we do not fully comprehend the underlying mechanisms of human consciousness.
Complexity of the human brain: The human brain is a complex and intricate organ, consisting of billions of neurons and trillions of synapses. Replicating this complexity in an artificial system is a daunting task.
Integrating multiple cognitive functions: Consciousness requires the integration of multiple cognitive functions, such as perception, attention, memory, and decision-making. Creating an artificial system that can integrate these functions in a cohesive manner is a significant challenge.
Emulation vs. simulation: Some researchers argue that it may be possible to simulate certain aspects of consciousness using algorithms and computational models, but truly emulating human-like consciousness may require a fundamentally different approach.
The hard problem of consciousness: Philosopher David Chalmers' concept of the "hard problem" questions why we have subjective experiences at all. This problem may be difficult to address using current scientific approaches.
Despite these barriers, researchers continue to explore various approaches to creating conscious AI, including:
Integrated Information Theory (IIT): This theory proposes that consciousness arises from the integrated information generated by the causal interactions within a system.
Global Workspace Theory (GWT): This theory suggests that consciousness involves the global workspace of the brain, which integrates information from various sensory and cognitive systems.
Neural networks and deep learning: Researchers are using neural networks and deep learning techniques to create artificial systems that can learn and adapt in complex environments.
Cognitive architectures: Researchers are developing cognitive architectures that can integrate multiple cognitive functions and provide a framework for creating more generalizable AI systems.
While it is difficult to predict when or if conscious AI will be achieved, many experts believe that significant progress will be made in the coming decades as our understanding of human consciousness and artificial intelligence continues to evolve.
Some predictions include:
Narrow or specialized forms of consciousness may emerge in specific domains, such as robotics or natural language processing.
Hybrid approaches combining symbolic and connectionist AI may lead to more generalizable forms of intelligence.
The development of more advanced neural networks and cognitive architectures may pave the way for more sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence.
Ultimately, creating conscious AI will require continued advances in fields like neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, computer science; interdisciplinary collaboration; investment basic scientific research
Sparta originally meant “sown land” and represented part of the cultivated area of the Eurotos Valley. Later, at some point, the land became the town when the Spartans relocated there. They may have called themselves Lacedaemonians from the time their territory encompassed more than one or two villages, but Spartans only when they needed to distinguish themselves from the Perioeci and the Messenians.
The city of Sparta consisted of four settlements: Pitane, Limnai, Kynosoura, and Messoa. The tombs of the Agiadai kings were located in Pitane, while the tombs of the Eurypontidai were located in Limnai. This suggests that the two royal houses originated from these towns and their combination occurred voluntarily. How Kynosaura and Messoa may have joined the Spartan community is obscure.
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Some streamers have taken to social media to share their discontent with the decision, with many pointing out that Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is a market leader in cloud services through its AWS platform.
It appears that the foundation of Sparta must have occurred no earlier than the beginning of the ninth century B.C. because there is no evidence of Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean culture there. The earliest that Spartan kings can be dated is through independent evidence is ~ 730 B.C. when Polydoros and Theopompos reigned. This was also the time of the First Messenian War, when Messenian names ceased to be listed among the winners at the Olympic Games.
The Basileus as a Bridge Political Figure in Ancient Greece
Basileus is a strange word – hard to pronounce (Bas-sill-es) and difficult to define. It has an obscure origin, although the Mycenaeans used it as gwasileus. Many linguists consider it a non-Greek word adopted by Bronze Age Greeks from eastern Mediterranean origins. Although Basileus has had many definitions during the last three thousand years, it’s the one that was used during the Greek Dark Ages that we’ll focus on here.
The Basileus was absolutely fundamental to the development of the Polis because without him there would have been no unified structure to serve as its foundation. In the late dark age period, the Greeks could have gone in either of two directions politically: strengthen collective action through a complex political organization or move toward personal leadership. There is evidence that the latter was attempted; that the Basileus became more powerful for a time. But that path was a dead end and he was eventually replaced by an administrator type – like the Archons of Athens. He lacked the historical requirements for personal leadership – wealth, a significant following among the people, and precedent. Ultimately, the people were unwilling to cede power to the Basileus and turn him into a king. They kept the power for themselves and elected administrators who they felt they could control.
Reflections on a Visit to Ancient Sparta
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was disappointed that the ruins of ancient Sparta were unidentifiable, and that drove me to try and make more sense of what was there and understand its part in the history of Spartan culture.
To accomplish this we have to start with the realization that the area now referred to as ancient Sparta is really its Acropolis and nothing else. The remainder of Sparta was spread out over four villages and all traces of those villages are gone. Over time the Acropolis itself took on the role of a citadel: more important to those controlling Sparta than it was to the Spartans themselves.
The amphitheater at the Spartan acropolis was built by the Romans in 50 B.C. and there are also Roman walls around the hilltop. Lower down and covering a larger area are Byzantine walls in ruins. Both of these sets of walls protected a citadel that was post-Spartan.
There are only two ancient Spartan structures that have been uncovered: the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos, located on the Acropolis and The Temple of Artemis Orthia located east of the Acropolis near the Eurotos River. Chalkioikos was constructed no later than 500 B.C, because artifacts from that time have been found in the ruins.
The testimonials are then pinned to the top of the comments section on the Instagram post, giving the comments and creators behind them more visibility.
Creators will also be able track these testimonials and other Partnership Ads under their Creator Settings on the app so they can see how their content is being used and even pull their content, if ever warranted.
!summarize #china #treasuries #debt #war #taiwan
Lightcap likened this usage to cloud services, which Amazon Web Services pioneered two decades ago. While the consumer business may grow faster since people can adopt it at will, enterprise is in the "process of building up," he said.
"There's a buying cycle there, and a learning process that goes into scaling an enterprise business," Lightcap said. "AI is going to be like cloud services. It's going to be something that you can't run a business that ultimately is not really running on these very powerful models underneath the surface."
Later that week, OpenAI accused DeepSeek of improperly harvesting its models in a technique known as distillation. Lightcap said the new competition hasn't changed the way OpenAI thinks about open source, their product road map or mega-spending plans.
"DeepSeek is a testament to how much AI is like entered the public consciousness in the mainstream -- it would have been unfathomable two years ago," he said. "It's a moment that shows how powerful these models are and how much people really care."
Besides DeepSeek's emergence, OpenAI has also been dealing with a tense time on the legal front.
!summarize #quantummechanics #physics #gravitise #quantise
The second war was not one of conquest but the putting down of a revolt. Toynbee suggests that it was the time of establishment of the Lycurgian reforms, not earlier as others have suggested. His reasoning was that the Spartan commoners would have demanded rights in return for their help in protecting the new kingdom.
Let’s look at this is a little more detail. Many of the ancients, including Thucydides connect Lycurgus with the militaristic Spartan system we’re all familiar with and set his date farther back than it should be. In reality we don’t know when Lycurgus lived or whether he even existed. It has been written that the Lycurgian reforms were put into place to overcome the domestic instability in Sparta existing before that time. What was the cause of this instability and when did it occur? A logical explanation derives from the rapid conquests preceding the Second Messenian War. In the period from 760-720 B.C. Sparta conquered Amyklai, Aigiai, Gythion, the lower Eurotos Basin, the Tagetan Minyai, and Stenyklaros – a vast amount of territory to try and control. The administrative challenges associated with these conquests must have been formidable.
Oppo is hoping it can win business from the likes of Samsung and Chinese tech giant Huawei, both major smartphone players seeking to shake the market out of an innovation slowdown with flashy new models that can bend.
Earlier this week, Huawei launched the Mate XT, a "trifold" phone with three screens, outside of China for the first time.
If you notice the UK and other countries have increased US Treasury holding at a greater percentage then China has decreased holding; this is good for the US economy to diversify from China having such leverage over our market. It is best if the gradual decline which has been occurring continues over the next decade or so until they have divested completely, from a global security standpoint. And I think it will because they could use the liquidity to support their debt burden and as trade volume decrees between the US and China as projected reserve percentages would need to be reduced for both sides as well.
Like many other smartphone makers, Oppo is investing more into artificial intelligence-focused features on the device.
The Oppo Find N5 has a triple-camera setup that includes a telephoto lens that can zoom in up to 30x thanks to assistance from an AI-powered image enhancement feature, dubbed AI Telescope Zoom.
It also comes with a personal AI assistant that can interpret and summarize documents, generate summaries of phone calls and translate video calls and other content displayed on the screen.
With the risk of revolt great and the administrative challenge daunting, the ruling class must have realized the importance of a citizen-based military (hoplite phalanx), and they may have been pushed in this direction by the commons who wouldn’t serve without receiving a property allocation. One piece of evidence to support this is found in Aristotle’s Politics.
“When the difference between the rich and poor is too extreme, the situation is particularly apt to be produced by wars. This too happened at Lacedaemon at the time of the second war with the Messenians. The evidence for this is found in Tyrtaios’ poem Eunomia where he says that there were Spartans who were so hard pressed economically by the war that they demanded that the country be carved up into allotments.”
!summarize #tesla #elonmusk #automotive #ai
Oppo also talked up a new feature that enables users to connect their phone to a Mac computer. Using an app called O+ Connect, users can link the Find N5 to any Mac desktop machine and instantly transfer photos and other files between devices — so long as they're connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
Users can also choose to remotely control a Mac from the Find N5. The Mac's display can shut off and then reappear on the Find N5's screen. The remote control feature only requires mobile internet or Wi-Fi to sync up a Mac device's data with the Find N5 in real-time.
The Spartan leadership was certainly in a position to allocate land because of the enormous size of the conquered lands. So the devil’s bargain was made – land to the commons in exchange for their willingness to fight in phalanx formation.
It seems that the new structure would have been instituted in a single step because of its interdependency. The need for a new kind of army generated a new constitution and social system. Of course a constitution can be created as a single event while changes in a social system take time and generations to take hold. Even the governmental changes must have occurred over time. For example, the Ephors had to transition from advisors to the king to being elected by a citizen assembly which did not exist before the reforms.
The feature uses public macOS application programming interfaces, which enable two different apps to communicate with each other. Oppo said O+ Connect "fully complies with macOS platform and software regulations."
Ben Wood, chief analyst at market research firm CCS Insight, told CNBC the Find N5 "shows the art of the possible when engineering a product with flexible display technology."
Wood added that, while Huawei's triple-screened Mate XT led to some fanfare, "commercially I think the smart money is still on the book-like form factor already offered by Samsung, Honor, Google and now Oppo."
Samsung teased a trifold smartphone prototype at its January Unpacked event for the launch of the Galaxy S25. It's not clear yet if the phone is a product Samsung will launch commercially anytime soon.
Touting America as "the leader" in the technology, Vance said that the U.S. wants its European allies to foster a more favorable attitude to the technology than it has done to date.
"To create that kind of trust, we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of AI technology rather than strangles it, and we need our European friends in particular to look to this new frontier with optimism rather than trepidation," Vance told attendees at the Paris summit.
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the first day of in-store sales of Apple's latest products at Apple's Fifth Avenue store in New York, US, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024.
Apple is releasing a new low-cost iPhone as sales have been mixed in recent quarters and the company seeks growth for its most important product category. For the December quarter, Apple's overall iPhone sales were down 1% on an annual basis. Apple still sold more than $69 billion of phones in the period.
Low-end iPhones are important to Apple as it gets new customers into their ecosystem, and the new device supports Apple Intelligence, making it Apple's least expensive new phone that can access features like image generation and notification summaries.
In recent years, Apple has started to quietly release new products through press releases, such as the new Macs it announced last September. It may be testing how much buzz it can get for one of these quieter launches. Last week, ahead of Wednesday's launch, Apple CEO Tim Cook posted a message on social media: "Get ready to meet the newest member of the family."
Rather than run its own data centers, Baseten runs its software on data center equipment from cloud providers, including Amazon and Google. Customers can supply their own infrastructure with an enterprise tier. By drawing from multiple providers, Baseten offers access to more GPUs than a single cloud's current supply.
"In this market, your No. 1 differentiation is how fast you can move. That is the core benefit for our customers," co-founder and CEO Tuhin Srivastava said. "You can go to production without worrying about reliability, security and performance."
Companies can manage the deployment of their models without Baseten, but securing enough Nvidia chips in the right geographical areas can prove difficult, co-founder Amir Haghighat told CNBC.
Cloud providers sometimes inform customers that some GPUs will be moved into maintenance mode and become unavailable within minutes. Baseten helps its clients handle those instances without interruptions, Srivastava said.
After the January breakthrough of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which claimed its models were trained for a fraction of the costs as its U.S. counterparts, efficiency in AI has become more important than ever.
Baseten was quick to add support for DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model that compares to OpenAI's o1. Baseten's website promises top-tier performance at a fraction of OpenAI's cost. There has been a lot of inbound from organizations looking at switching to DeepSeek, and Baseten has been busy trying to keep up, Srivastava said.
Under former President Joe Biden, the United States lauded Zelenskyy as a hero and hammered Moscow with sanctions as Ukraine battled against advancing Russian troops.
But Trump has been critical of Zelenskyy, claiming he has subverted democracy and blaming him for starting the war that began with Russia's full-scale invasion three years ago.
"A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Zelenskyy was elected in 2019 for a five-year term and has remained leader under martial law imposed as his country fights for its survival.
Putin said U.S. allies "only have themselves to blame for what's happening," suggesting they were paying the price for opposing Trump's return to the White House.
Tensions between Zelenskyy and Trump over the new U.S. position on the war had been building for weeks.
But Zelenskyy struck a more positive tone ahead of Thursday's meeting with Kellogg, saying "it is very important for U.S. that the meeting and our work with America in general be constructive."
"Together with America and Europe, peace can be more reliable, and this is our goal," he added.
Russia, which for years has railed against the U.S. military presence in Europe, wants a reorganisation of the continent's security framework as part of any deal to end the Ukraine fighting.
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Please foster more ideas on how Grok will be a game changer for passengers, people in the car and at a higher level like what Herbert did in his channel yesterday. It has been suggested that someone will have many context sensitive Grok’s that will be able to anticipate and adapt to you in the car, at work, sentimentally, when in company so as to respect your privacy when together with others and very personal when you are alone. So Grok will have different profiles depending on the situations you are in and will draw on the pertinent versions of “you” Essentially anticipating and adapting to you in the various circumstances you find yourself in a day or night … funny,
I’ve been reading a great book called Some Problems of Greek History by Arnold Toynbee, the well known English historian, which was published in 1969. Toynbee is best known for his The Study of History, a monumental work published in 1934 and 1939. This significant contribution to comparative history has been criticized for a variety of reasons mostly around his assumptions and use of questionable data. Still, A Study of History is worth reading because of its unique approach.
Some Problems of Greek History does not create controversy and is a rigorous review and dissection of all data known about parts of Greek history -- mostly Sparta. In my last post, I talked about the origins of Sparta and Lacedaemon. This time, we’ll review the expansion of Sparta geographically through the lower Peloponnese.
California privacy regulator seeks to fine Florida data broker after huge breach of Social Security numbers
The California agency said National Public Data failed to register in the state as a data broker.
California’s privacy regulator is asking a court to fine a data broker that lost hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers in one of last year’s biggest data breaches.
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), which enforces California’s state rules on data protection and privacy rights, known as CCPA, said Thursday that it is seeking a fine of $46,000 against National Public Data for failing to register as a data broker in the state.
The future of AI is expected to be shaped by a combination of technological advancements, with a significant impact on society. Generative AI models have shown immense promise, but their limitations have also become well known. As a result, the future of AI is being defined by a shift toward both open source large-scale models for experimentation and more specialized applications.
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The future of AI holds immense potential to reshape industries, jobs, and daily lives. It is expected to increase efficiency and improve decision-making through data analysis. However, adequate precautions must be taken to avoid exacerbating existing inequities.
By 2028, the number of human lawyers in the U.S. could be cut by 25% or more due to generative AI's ability to provide rudimentary summaries of applicable laws and draft contract clause language. Transportation and other industries will also be impacted by the advancement of AI.
Overall, the future of AI looks promising but requires careful consideration of its potential impacts on society.
Sparta conquered Laconia and Messenia during the eighth century B.C, a date which Toynbee points out is more accurate than theoretical dates farther back which are unsupportable. Most notably, he asserts that the two Spartan royal families were extended backward by myth to Herakles, a connection that cannot be (and according Toynbee) should not be made. To him, the Dorian invasion and fall of Mycenae are not connected directly to the rise of the Lacedaemonians.
The first step in the expansion of Sparta was the conquest on Amyklai (eighth century timeframe unknown) and its incorporation into Sparta as an equal. This victory gained Sparta an influential ally and opened up southern Laconia to them. The Spartans then continued their southern expansion through Aigytis until they reached the coast, circa 720 B.C. I use that date because the Italian colony of Tarentum was founded by Sparta in the time period 708-702 B.C. and for Sparta to have sent colonists to Italy, she would have needed to control of a port for some period of time. That port was most likely Gythion, which we know was a Spartan naval base by 413 B.C.
While Sparta gave Perioecic status to the communities of the Mani peninsula down to Cape Tainaron, the lower Eurotos Valley was conquered and forced to choose between enslavement and deportation. This was the beginning of Helotry and the use of Messenian lands for agriculture.
Per the CPPA, its action against National Public Data is its sixth enforcement effort against a data broker since its inception. The previous five actions ended in settlement agreements, the agency said.
Salvatore Verini, the owner of Jerico Pictures, the parent company of the hacked data broker National Public Data, did not respond to a request for comment.
The Spartans as Lacedaemonians
The region of the Peloponnese which held the Spartan people was called Lacedaemon (now Laconia) and the Spartans were known as the Lacedaemonians from at least the fifth century B.C. By that time, Lacedaemon was used interchangeably with Sparta when referring to the political entity. What happened before that time?
In the Iliad, the land ruled by Menelaus is referred to as “a hollow” which is “scarred with ravines”, certainly an apt description of the Spartan lands as they look today. But if the setting of the Iliad was the Mycenaean Age, the residence of Menelaus would have been a castle. Where was it? Toynbee speculates that the original “Sparta” may have been at Therapne or Amyklai, nearby towns that date back to the Mycenaean time.
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The question of whether AI will ever be conscious is a complex and debated topic among experts. Consciousness refers to the state of being aware of one's surroundings, thoughts, and emotions. While AI has made significant progress in recent years, the creation of conscious AI is still a subject of ongoing research and discussion.
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While it is difficult to predict when or if conscious AI will be achieved, many experts believe that significant progress will be made in the coming decades as our understanding of human consciousness and artificial intelligence continues to evolve.
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Sparta originally meant “sown land” and represented part of the cultivated area of the Eurotos Valley. Later, at some point, the land became the town when the Spartans relocated there. They may have called themselves Lacedaemonians from the time their territory encompassed more than one or two villages, but Spartans only when they needed to distinguish themselves from the Perioeci and the Messenians.
The city of Sparta consisted of four settlements: Pitane, Limnai, Kynosoura, and Messoa. The tombs of the Agiadai kings were located in Pitane, while the tombs of the Eurypontidai were located in Limnai. This suggests that the two royal houses originated from these towns and their combination occurred voluntarily. How Kynosaura and Messoa may have joined the Spartan community is obscure.
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It appears that the foundation of Sparta must have occurred no earlier than the beginning of the ninth century B.C. because there is no evidence of Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean culture there. The earliest that Spartan kings can be dated is through independent evidence is ~ 730 B.C. when Polydoros and Theopompos reigned. This was also the time of the First Messenian War, when Messenian names ceased to be listed among the winners at the Olympic Games.
The Basileus as a Bridge Political Figure in Ancient Greece
Basileus is a strange word – hard to pronounce (Bas-sill-es) and difficult to define. It has an obscure origin, although the Mycenaeans used it as gwasileus. Many linguists consider it a non-Greek word adopted by Bronze Age Greeks from eastern Mediterranean origins. Although Basileus has had many definitions during the last three thousand years, it’s the one that was used during the Greek Dark Ages that we’ll focus on here.
The Basileus was absolutely fundamental to the development of the Polis because without him there would have been no unified structure to serve as its foundation. In the late dark age period, the Greeks could have gone in either of two directions politically: strengthen collective action through a complex political organization or move toward personal leadership. There is evidence that the latter was attempted; that the Basileus became more powerful for a time. But that path was a dead end and he was eventually replaced by an administrator type – like the Archons of Athens. He lacked the historical requirements for personal leadership – wealth, a significant following among the people, and precedent. Ultimately, the people were unwilling to cede power to the Basileus and turn him into a king. They kept the power for themselves and elected administrators who they felt they could control.
Reflections on a Visit to Ancient Sparta
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was disappointed that the ruins of ancient Sparta were unidentifiable, and that drove me to try and make more sense of what was there and understand its part in the history of Spartan culture.
To accomplish this we have to start with the realization that the area now referred to as ancient Sparta is really its Acropolis and nothing else. The remainder of Sparta was spread out over four villages and all traces of those villages are gone. Over time the Acropolis itself took on the role of a citadel: more important to those controlling Sparta than it was to the Spartans themselves.
The amphitheater at the Spartan acropolis was built by the Romans in 50 B.C. and there are also Roman walls around the hilltop. Lower down and covering a larger area are Byzantine walls in ruins. Both of these sets of walls protected a citadel that was post-Spartan.
There are only two ancient Spartan structures that have been uncovered: the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos, located on the Acropolis and The Temple of Artemis Orthia located east of the Acropolis near the Eurotos River. Chalkioikos was constructed no later than 500 B.C, because artifacts from that time have been found in the ruins.
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