[MtnClimber]

Please let Google be next.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Openurmind]

Ping...

[JayGalt]

I’m not sure where I stand on this issue. Preventing spying and hidden targeting of consumers is one thing.
But in some ways this crusade seems like a form of DEI. Why should a company that builds computers make computers that can run any operating system? Why not buy a computer from a source that offers that function or build your own from components. Did Americans really gain from the breakup of ATT.
Why not err in the direction of letting the marketplace decide. It’s not that we don’t have examples of startups revolutionizing an existing niches and commanding market share in a few years. I don’t like fingers on the scale or asking companies to work against their own profitability.
Consumers always have the right to walk or to use another source. The Government support of alternative energy solution has been a wasteful boondoggle and distorted the marketplace. It has also allowed graft and improper use of public money. Isn’t the attack on tech companies similar? Preventing tracking or making tracking easy to opt out of, making it illegal to selll users data is a good use of oversight. Giving a legup to competitors is not.

[Bratch]

Something else to watch for.

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REPORT: Palantir and Anduril Forming Consortium with SpaceX, Open AI, Sardonic and Scale AI to Bid on New Age Government (Defense) Contracts

December 22, 2024 | Sundance 

A breaking report outlines something we have predicted for well over six months.  A new era technocracy group formed around candidate and now the incoming administration of President Donald Trump.  The group holds financial interests, albeit currently in alignment with ideology.

Palantir (Peter Thiel) and defense contractor Anduril are teaming up with SpaceX (Elon Musk) and OpenAI to form a consortium group that will collaboratively bid on USG Federal contracts (likely Defense).

VIA REUTERS – Dec 22 (Reuters) – Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies (PLTR.O), opens new tab and defense tech company Anduril Industries are in talks with about a dozen competitors to form a consortium that will jointly bid for U.S. government work, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

The consortium, which could announce agreements with other tech groups as early as January, is expected to include SpaceX, OpenAI, autonomous shipbuilder Saronic and artificial intelligence data group Scale AI, the newspaper said, citing several people with knowledge of the matter.

“We are working together to provide a new generation of defence contractors,” a person involved in developing the group told the newspaper.

The consortium will bring together the heft of some of Silicon Valley’s most valuable companies and will leverage their products to provide a more efficient way of supplying the U.S. government with cutting-edge defence and weapons capabilities, the newspaper added. (read more)

Without Peter Thiel there is no JD Vance.  Many might argue that without Elon Musk there is no President-elect Donald Trump.  I would agree with the former and disagree with the latter while admitting the Musk factor was positive in the election.

What we are seeing now is what CTH predicted we would see as a natural outcome of this tech group who purposefully aligned with Trump in the summer of 2024.

Peter Thiel (Palantir) has been very successful in gaining federal contracts for the software that combines facial recognition with artificial intelligence capabilities. Palantir’s AI can be used in DHS surveillance, as well as military operations to make targeting decisions more precise and effective.

Elon Musk (SpaceX and xAI) already have extensive contracts with the Federal government.  Now we are seeing ancillary tech groups join in collaboration with Thiel and Musk due to the access created by their relationship with President Trump and JD Vance.  None of these subsequent financial windfalls are accidental, they are all strategic and by design.

The old school of defense heavyweights, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, are being challenged by smaller more technologically aligned companies Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX and supporting AI companies.   The new guys have an insider track due to their prepositioning on the Trump campaign.

The open question is who selected whom?  Did the new era Technocrats select Donald Trump as their strategic avenue for financial benefit; or did President Trump select the new era Technocrats as tools for election victory; or was it just a merge of interests for mutual benefit.

I suspect we are not as far away from finding out as most might think.

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[Jim W N]

Who's sending the strong message against big unconstitutional federal gov't malfeasance????

[Brian Griffin]

In about three months Microsoft’s support for Windows 10 will for miserly me effectively end.

I will have to use the Mac a neighbor gave me, or a Chromebook.

[Brian Griffin]

I’m not aware of any Linux machines available off the shelf at a comparable or lower price.

Microsoft Windows is menu-based, which is primarily why I tolerate and use it.

[fuzzylogic]

“cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity products”

...and not the desktop? There’s plenty of competition in those other areas.

[Brian Griffin]

It is my understanding that the Red Chinese want to shove Microsoft Windows aside.

The alternative could be used by other folks.

What about secrecy?

My comments here can be read in Beijing too, already.

[Brian Griffin]

The PCs I bought prior to laptops were assembled locally.

The assembler would load Dos (first PC) or Windows 3.1 (second PC) and pay Microsoft a royalty.

[Brian Griffin]

I use Luxxle as my search engine.

It has the advantage of overriding Microsoft’s new page cellphone service monthly data allotment gobbling efforts.

[sergeantdave]

Anytime you find government and industry colluding (fascism) to strip citizens of basic constitutional rights, you squash it like a bug.

[oldtech]

I’m thinking it might work out if AI & “transgender” both went away at about the same time.