the key bit

This represents a potentially significant shift in AI deployment. While traditional AI infrastructure typically relies on multiple Nvidia GPUs consuming several kilowatts of power, the Mac Studio draws less than 200 watts during inference. This efficiency gap suggests the AI industry may need to rethink assumptions about infrastructure requirements for top-tier model performance.

It’s pretty simple actually, Ukraine is a US proxy in a war with Russia. As such, Ukraine has no agency in this, and now that US realizes that the war is lost, they’re talking directly to the other party in order to end it.

Poe’s law :)

Sure, meanwhile Cuba, China, Vietnam, Laos which are moving humanity forward.

clearly they did not

“the entire world”

The quotes you selected suggest the opposite. The US is recognizing that it lost the proxy war against Russia, and it is now willing to accept Russian terms for ending the conflict.

that would be the ideal scenario

I think that will all depend on the state of the US in the next few years. If US crashes economically, they might not be in a position to do anything about it.

If the regime collapses, the north might move in.

The way things are going in SK, it might just implode politically at some point.

Indeed, it’s gonna be a long road before anything substantial happens.

gonna be hilarious if the peacekeeping force ends up being China and DPRK

I agree these statements alone aren’t really worth much, it’s going to be interesting to see if there’s going to be a general political shift to improve relations with China going forward though. The US economy isn’t exactly in a great shape right now, and they’re fighting a tariff war with everyone. This will further erode relations with the vassals going forward.

Indeed, the oligarchs don’t want to rock the boat and they will fight any attempts to redirect trade because that would negatively affect them.

The US has a huge amount of economic leverage over them by design, so they can’t just openly go against the US demands. It’s going to be a process from realizing they need to wean themselves off the US market to actually making it happen.

That was definitely the mood during the first Trump term, but it does seem that the realization is slowly sinking in that the nature of the relationship between the US and the vassals is changing.

The obliteration of Ukraine in NATO’s proxy war and Europe’s self-inflicted economic collapse are making US vassals in Asia nervous. Japan and South Korea are waking up to the fact that their prosperity and security are just as negotiable. As Europe’s industries flee to America and Ukraine lies in ruins, Tokyo and Seoul are quietly recalculating their futures, realizing loyalty to a declining hegemon buys only a front-row seat to their own demise.

Critical support for the US destroying its scientific and technology base.

That’s going to accelerate the process for sure. Also worth noting that the US education system has been terrible for decades, and they’ve relied on poaching talent around the world to stay at the top.