Since people aren’t reading the article and the headline is misleading. The law requires:

• The OS ask the user their date of birth on account creation (kinda like the Steam date of birth prompts)
• The OS provide an API that returns which of four age brackets the user fits in
• Companies notified by the OS that the user is under age may be liable

It was explicitly written by the authors not to mandate ID or facial recognition checks. You can lie about your date of birth. This basically creates a standard set of parental controls for parents configuring kids devices.

I think that this might actually help with the whole discord facial recognition issue in places other than the UK by allowing them to offload the issue to parents setting up devices rather than collecting kids biometrics.

The headline is misleading. They are only required to ask how old you are and are not required to verify you aren’t lying

Don’t forget that he didn’t fix everything with a 50-50 Senate

I doubt it. Those AI computers are built in a really weird way and have a lot of hardware that isn’t really useful outside an AI/HPC context. Some stuff like the weird card to card network topology can be reconfigured but the rest of it can’t easily be. The servers are rather agressively designed around keeping as many GPUs fed as possible making them kinda weird for other jobs. Those datacenter cards are missing enough video hardware (for example texture units) to make gaming hard and I’m not sure there’s that much consumer demand for linear algebra accelerators. If they can’t find more HPC jobs they may go under. Movie studios could have interesting opportunities here but they are still primarily using CPUs in all their software IIRC.

The clusters in the UAE and Saudi Arabia might be repurposable for nuclear weapons research which isn’t great.

Guys in the Philippines aren’t driving those cars live. Ping between SF and Manila is ~200ms or about a 5th of a second which on top of human reaction time would not be adequate. This is about getting cars unstuck when they get stuck between an obstruction and violating traffic law.