Since Apple goes through the trouble of invading my privacy like this, I would at least expect "Hey Siri, call mom" to do the right thing. But it does not. Either it calls the wrong person or asks me which of two particular number or email to use for FaceTime, when both lead to the same correct person anyway..so why bother asking? Apple makes the best hardware but its disappointing to see their software consistently fall short.

I have been using "Hey Siri, call my {mom, dad,wife}" with zero issues for years now.

Here I was thinking Google had given up on frontier models...

Apple App Store build upload processing is also out at the same time...hmmm....I wonder if Apple is using Claude for build upload processing.

Pastor used to say: "You become what you behold." too true.

I agree. In my experience it does too much and takes too long. Maybe that's just cause I use it on xhigh setting.

This has to slow stock market growth, right? Less young people buying, more older people selling.

Yes. A massive implosion in aggregate consumer demand due to shrinking population will hit real estate, stocks, tax revenue, and therefore the ability to meet debt repayment obligations.

Frustratingly, (and counterintuitively), it won't help housing prices, because shrinking populations retreat to city centers. Spain, Italy, Japan, and Korea are full of $5,000 houses. Meanwhile, Madrid, Rome, Tokyo, and Seoul are more expensive than they've ever been.

Most stock market trades aren't made by people, but by institutional money. That ain't going nowhere.

The institutions exist for people to do things like retire.

Undoubtedly they will continue to exist once the people they serve seize to exist.

It's not about existence it's about what drives the flows. People are born, work and save, and retire. Part of the savings enters as institutional money, and is consumed in retirement.

Ha, this has some serious There Will Come Soft Rains energy.

"The speed of light in a vacuum used to be about 35 mph. Then Jeff Dean spent a weekend optimizing physics."