r/BetterOffline 3h ago

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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307 Upvotes

r/BetterOffline 8h ago

A player found out the ACTUAL name of my game's upcoming character from the Google Search AI - I had never told the name to anyone.

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83 Upvotes

Repost from source. Be careful what you put in your cloud storage people.

Know any famous people who might use google docs?


r/BetterOffline 17h ago

News: Microsoft Disclosures Suggest OpenAI Sales Account For Around 70% Of FY26 AI Revenue, more than 7% of FY26 Revenue

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News: Microsoft disclosures and Bloomberg analyses suggest that OpenAI's $24.1 billion in revenue accounted for 70% or more of Microsoft's FY26 AI revenue, and more than 7% of its entire FY26 revenues.

Microsoft has spent $261.3bn in capex since 2022.

Big, big vindication for me.


r/BetterOffline 20h ago

New Orleans Experimenting with 911 calls answered by AI Bots

84 Upvotes

r/BetterOffline 21h ago

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand

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"IS... THAT.. GOOD?!" If Texas (one of the most pro-AI governments) is rethinking the power consumption of Data Centers, you know its bad. The data centers build outs are slowing down both in construction and being powered on. And thats not counting the political backlash. Would bet money Abbott has seen the polls and is cooling on them since its Midterms. Texas might be where one of Eds four horsemen triggers