My locked down legacy device thanks you. Please buy me a better one so I can migrate.

The whole justification for charging their sky high prices is that their model is genuinely more capable than others. If they put a pause on R&D, then DeepSeek will outpace them in a few months charging a fraction of what they do. The real problem with the American AI business model is that LLMs are a generic commodity. It's very hard for any one vendor to differentiate themselves from others. And in such scenarios, the profit trends to zero. There's a race to the bottom where people keep lowering their margins because everyone else is. So, this is why American labs want to create a cartel and control prices. They can't afford the margins to drop to the cost of inference because they're on a hook for insane amounts of money. So, they need the profit rate to stay high to justify themselves as a business. Meanwhile, Chinese companies don't have the same problem because they didn't spend like mad on this tech. And price of electricity in China is also around a third of what it is in the US. These charts are very illustrative incidentally: [image: 7a3dff42-be51-4cd1-9f9c-e70c8c033ca2.png] [image: b851ed99-48ed-4801-92ce-a5610ac670cf.png] https://hai.stanford.edu/news/inside-the-ai-index-12-takeaways-from-the-2026-report

I don't give a fuck is sending I don't give a fuck into the wilderness, armed with I don't give a fuck

Great news! But I wonder if all these big fines are ever collected

Is that what happens on Windows? I don't have Windows or anything Copilot related.

I was going to add this. Yea Google is notorious for refusing to license new browsers for usage of the DRM's they own and maintain, instead stringing them along for years at a time without ever rejecting it, so they can give the image that they aren't suppressing competition. apologize, just now noticed this is a 2 week old comment.