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Alphabet (Google) made $102.35 billion in revenue last quarter, not $100bn in profit.


Also most of it is from ads, not from their AI or cloud products. I wonder when OpenAI will start to serve ads as much as Google does, they certainly have people's attention a lot of times throughout the day looking at how people around me use their services.


I find it funny that people think OAI can enter the ad business and just compete easily with Google, given the years Google has had investing in research etc to build the behemoth it is today in the market for online advertising.

By the time OAI even figures it out, they will have run out of funding. All they can do now is prop up usage numbers to signal to investors that their market position is durable.


>For ending a war he created.

What war did Trump create that you claim he's ending?

Because as far as I know, Israel's war on Gaza started before his term, and if the peace deal holds, Trump will be almost singlehandedly responsible for ending it.

If that's not worthy of a Nobel Peace prize, I truly don't know what else is.


> What war did Trump create that you claim he's ending?

He allowed Israel to break the last ceasefire immediately after the first phase of prisoner exchange was over, and to subsequently act with more brutality than even before. He started that chapter himself, whether through psychopatic indifference, narcisstic business fantasy of a future riviera with his name, or being a completely weak man who couldn't say no. Whatever the reason, he started the next 7 months of slaughter.


Hamas broke the ceasefire on Oct 7 and killed 1000+ Israelis. Israel is justified in breaking every ceasefire with Hamas until the end of time. You should not negotiate in good faith with terrorists. There should be peace with the Palestinians, but not with Hamas.


Your anger is understandable, but the only way to peace is indeed to negotiate, and the peace must be made between Israel and Hamas.

Before Israel's invasion, a minority supported Hamas' actions. Now, it will be very hard to find peace during the generational legacy of Israel's violence.

This is why overwhelming violence cannot lead to peace. Israel was justified in defending itself, but proportionality was necessary. As an alternative, I think Mossad have show themselves capable of disabling Hamas without heavy civlian casualties.


Hasbara bullet points with no effort. Logically falls apart upon the most basic of inspections. For example, if a one day attack justifies a disproportionate slaughter for 2 years, then what is a merely PROPORTIONATE response to 2 years of slaughter? What is a merely proportionate response to 85% of all buildings destroyed and all infrastruction being turned to rubble?

For bystanders, be aware that there is a lot of money to be made by defending Israel. Some people will take that money. Just a few citations below:

- Certain social media influencers being paid up to $7000 per post [1]

- Israel boosts propaganda funding by $150m to sway global opinion against genocide [2] [3]

- "[...] a firm called Bridges Partners LLC has been hired to manage an influencer network under a project code-named the “Esther Project.” " [4]

[1] https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influencers-netanya...

[2] https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/isr...

[3] https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/israel-has-spent-m...

[4] https://www.jta.org/2025/09/30/united-states/israels-secret-...


> Very debatable. His deal with Iran kept the peace though - trump ripping it up led to war.


Dumb collation of benchmarks that the big labs are essentially training on. Livebench.ai is the industry standard - non contaminated, new questions every few months.


Thanks! Are the scores in some way linear here? As in, if model A is rated at 25 and model B at 50, does that mean I will have half the mistakes with model B? Get answers that are 2x more accurate? Or is it subjective?


I believe the score represents the fraction of correct answers, so yes.


EVs, Batteries, Civilian Drones, Quantum Communications, Robotics (Industrial & Consumer), Clean Energy (Solar, Wind, Nuclear tech).

Have you been living under a rock the past couple of years?


Don't be duped by China's clean energy talk. Their energy infra is mainly coal and they continue to build (dirty) coal plants.

They sell you solar infra so that you can feel good about protecting the world while they continue to build coal plants. For reference, in 2023 they built 95% of the world's new coal plants...

Don't be fooled.


They also connected more solar to their grid than the rest of the world combined. China is massively increasing their power generation capacity and yes most of it is still coal. They are also building 20+ nuclear reactors. The scale of what China is doing is mind boggling.


You're right, but it's not quite so black and white. They are certainly continuing to build out coal capacity, but they are building solar/hydro/nuclear/wind generation at a greater rate, such that the proportion of generation from coal has been falling, from over 70% ten years ago, to about 55% currently.


YOU are confusing crude oil production with exports. The US IS the largest oil producing country:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_pro...

The parent commenter is right. You are wrong. Do a little Google search before commenting.


They did do one, but the US only slid into top spot somewhat recently it looks like?

Can avoid the hostility.


It's half a decade.


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