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Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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617 points jbegley | 2 comments | 04 Feb 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.018s | source
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uejfiweun ◴[04 Feb 25 23:26 UTC] No.42940754[source]▶
Dollar short and a day late. The future of the US tech industry belongs to those who weren't interested in performative woke nonsense like this during the last decade.
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zeroCalories ◴[04 Feb 25 23:48 UTC] No.42941043[source]▶
Who is that?
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uejfiweun ◴[05 Feb 25 00:10 UTC] No.42941325[source]▶
Palantir, for one?
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zeroCalories ◴[05 Feb 25 00:24 UTC] No.42941488[source]▶
By what measure? Google has a market cap that's 10x Palantir, and the gap in revenue/profit is even more massive. They aren't in the same league at all.
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1. uejfiweun ◴[05 Feb 25 01:07 UTC] No.42941985[source]▶
The measure is stock returns in the last 5 years. The whole point of public companies is to generate wealth for shareholders and Google just simply isn't really delivering on the same level as Palantir.

In fact, when you look at the last decade of Google saying they're an "AI first" company and literally inventing transformers, and look at what their stock price has done and how they've performed in relation to other major companies involved in this current AI spring, there is simply no way not to be disappointed.

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2. zeroCalories ◴[05 Feb 25 04:41 UTC] No.42943893[source]▶
Plenty of companies produce good returns, but that doesn't make them any kind of leader. FAANG still controls the market, pays the highest salaries, and produces the most research. Other rising stars like OpenAI and ByteDance are not uniquely evil either. Not saying FAANG won't fade away like IBM or Oracle, but I don't think it would be due to their unwillingness to be like Palantir.