Soft-serve machines get a not-quite-parfait exemption to DMCA circumvention rule.

This is something that irritates me personally because I’ve used those quotes from Elon about service to counter the hesitation of many potential Tesla buyers regarding the maintenance and service of electric vehicles.

Elon’s statement reassured them, but if that was ever really the plan, it certainly isn’t anymore based on the latest results.

Tesla’s gross margins for service and selling replacement parts are surging, and Tesla is proudly saying it in its financial results.

Google is gearing up to unveil its latest AI language model, Gemini 2.0, in December, according to insider sources from The Verge.

Another indication of the plateau thesis: OpenAI has just confirmed that a new model, internally considered as a potential successor to GPT-4, will not be released this year, despite looming competition from Google Gemini 2.0.

Similarly, Anthropic is rumored to have put a previously announced version 3.5 of its flagship Opus model on hold due to a lack of significant progress, instead focusing on an improved version of Sonnet 3.5 that emphasizes agent-based AI.