I’d buy you a beer for that summary. That is exactly SPOT ON.

Anthropic right now are the good people.

That probably won’t last. But out of a bad bunch they’re the least bad.

To call AI useless is quite a strong statement.

There’s a million places to use it!

The problem is that the market thinks there’s a billion places to use. And right now we’re funding 999 million places that shouldn’t be using AI but have the funding to do that dumb thing so we can figure the one million places where it makes fantastic sense.

Aren’t we saying exactly the same? Give it an MCP server or a native skill that CAN track time.

Everyone’s getting their knickers in a twist over nothing here.

Of course an AI can track time, if it’s given access to a timer MCP server.

Can we track time without tools, just in our heads? Certainly not very accurately. We can, however, track it reasonably accurately if given access to a quartz stop watch (typically +/-15 s/year)

A language model is based around language and reasoning by words/symbols. It’s not a surprise it doesn’t have timing capability.

What Altman SHOULD be embarrassed about is that the model lies about its capabilities. That implies that the context is still not right - it should be adequately trained and given context to prevent the lying. That implies a much more worrying issue - and something that Anthropic handles far better, IMHO (when asked if it can track time, if says “no, not on my own”, and then proceeds to build a JavaScript timer that it offers up to track time).

The numbers are obviously wiiiiildly off but it’s certainly true that there are some STIs that condoms aren’t adequately able to protect you against (HSV, HPV, syphilis).

Just because we agree with the news doesn’t make it correct.

The ban was brought about in December 2025. It’s clearly far too early to draw any conclusions about the impact.

If we are going to cherry pick data let’s make sure to cherry-pick data from both sides: https://yougov.com/articles/54334-new-yougov-research-shows-cautious-optimism-as-australians-assess-impact-of-under-16-social-media-ban

This is probably just me, but I think any ire should be directed towards the governments that make these requirements.

I don’t get mad at truck manufacturers for building the capability to record speed in the vehicle if the government requires it (as many do).

IMHO Apple is intending to comply with the law of a democratic country. It’s hardly Apple’s fault that the law is what it is.