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Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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I wanna see a breakdown of cost vs revenue for each big tech and their AI stuff.
I know it’s all negative, I wanna know who is the most negative. My money is on google.
This analyses what’s publicly known: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter
This snippet summarizes my AI forced into everything experience, especially when I was prompted to have my text message summarized. I said no, and the message was "Ok"
What text messages are being sent that need to be summarized?
Great analysis. I still have no idea how they think they will ever make their money back.
There are people who both get llm summaries of their emails and get llm to rewrite what they send. It's amazing that anyone can't see how incredibly stupid it is
Ironically, Apple has some of the best odds of coming out of this reasonably healthy. “Apple Intelligence” follows the trend of most Apple services products, in that it is really intended to lock people into their ecosystem and keep buying iPhones. I’m just waiting for someone in the big 7 or whatever they’re called to publicly bow out of AI. I suspect the first one to do it might benefit a lot.