Back in December of 2025, two days before Christmas, I was on vacation and doing some tech stuff that I had on my todo list. One of them was to start backing up my GoG game purchases (and also have a bigger drive to backup my OneDrive stuff, my music and my pictures.

I stopped by Best Buy and bought this external Seagate 24TB drive for $279.99 and thought to myself at the register while paying for it, "Damn, this is expensive."

I just looked and the same drive at Best Buy is now $709.99 (and that's the sale price after a $50 discount!). The sale price is a whopping 153.6% increase in just six months!

This is insane. Thanks #AI techbros for making everything tech more expensive.

#compute #hardware #harddrive #gaming #videogames #gog #storage

Never shy with an opinion - tell what you really think Mark?

The crux at hand is >> is there a business model for foundational AI models that will support multiple players - OR - will it resolve down to one BIG Kahuna and everyone else gets crumbs?

Return on all this AI infrastructure investment?? >> Cuban says >> “they’re full of sh*t, it’s not gonna happen.” https://www.barchart.com/story/news/2603502/mark-cuban-says-openai-is-sh-tting-away-its-money-on-ai-infrastructure-says-theyll-never-get-a-return-on-their-trillion-dollar-spending-spree #AI #LLMs #Compute #DataCenters #MarkCuban #AIInvestment #ROI #BusinessModel #AIFoundationModels #FoundationModels #SpendingSpree #Economics # AIInfrastructure

2: #AI: What happens if #companies start limiting their #tokenbudgets meaningfully because they are only seeing weak #ROI, and as a result, #compute demand either slows down or shifts to #Chinesemodels?
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AiTip: To save tokens/ #compute spawn individual sessions for individual jobs..Unless you are working on a big project, use multiple chats. Even on a big project, you may want to comparmentalise #prompts

#PromptEngineering

3rd Orchestration of the AI Harness Governor.

Key engineering difference is that instead of using a single AI API, this one uses mutiple engines that cycle when the last one hits the #compute limit.

Forced to eek out compute, scraping it off the floor, like some sort of a #cyberpunk lower levels savage.

AI pioneer Jakob Uszkoreit plans to spearhead the creation of a European artificial intelligence by organizing a dedicated team. To achieve this ambitious goal,... https://news.osna.fm/?p=51948 | #news #ai #build #calls #compute
Pioneer Calls for €50B to Build European AI Sovereignty and Compute Power - Osna.FM

Discover European AI! Join Jakob Uszkoreit's team to build the future of Artificial Intelligence for Europe.

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Tomorrow night 6PM my weekly #compute limit resets (I hit it Tue - 4 days ago)

Going to re-engineer the entire harness plane for multi-engine #LLM

Time to repost the #meme I made a while ago;

China put a data center under the sea and plugged it into offshore wind, because apparently the cloud has gills now. I wouldn't say this is the future of every server farm., but it is compute learning coastal real estate arbitrage: less land, less freshwater, colder water, cleaner story. AI infrastructure, but make it maritime state planning.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/09/worlds-first-wind-powered-underwater-datacentre-starts-operating-in-china #Compute

I was right, observing my #claude use ever decreasing #compute

"Anthropic Head of Claude Code Boris Cherny said “our subscriptions weren’t built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools,” referring to automated agent harnesses like OpenClaw"

The first one is always free.
Once the AI is integrated into your workflows.
AI companies will increase the subs, making AI unaffordable to anyone but the top end of town.#inequality

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/anthropic-pauses-token-based-billing-for-its-claude-agent-sdk/

#anthropic #inequality

Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK

Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.

Ars Technica
Leaked OpenAI financials put a hard number on Altman's compute burn

Audited OpenAI financials viewed by Ed Zitron and verified by the Financial Times show $13.07B in 2025 revenue, $34B in costs, and a $38.5B loss attributable to OpenAI.

RuntimeWire