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Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026 (www.reuters.com)
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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Not enough people realize this. They think the component shortage is a side effect, but it’s to push you towards cloud services on underpowered devices that rely on it.

Imagine the censorship when every service is monitored and controlled by them. Imagine the market capture when they can see everyone’s financials and trade secrets. When they can cut off journalists and activists with one click.

[–] Darkonion@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Haven't heard anything new lately, but there is a push to eliminate physical currency for, what I presume, is a similar reason -> make everything trackable.

[–] Seralth@piefed.seralth.com 3 points 4 days ago

People have been trying to eliminate physical currency for decades in not longer. That shit predates computers.

[–] kinship@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago

This is quite obvious, it hasn't happened at a global scale yet because people have to agree on which currency it would be

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 1 points 4 days ago

I think this will backfire too. I think they way underestimate the amount of people already using "underpowered devices" that will just continue to do so without the new cloud services shit.

Basically everyone I know us using a 5-10+ year old laptop, for example. And they just use it fine, sure it's pokey, and it's not everyone, but it's a lot.