Forget about the predictions and look at the growth only. It’s the legendary hockey stick. The stuff MBAs dream about. US manufacturers, engineers and the less shitty VCs should be fucking furious that they were kneecapped at every step and basically forbidden from participating in this market in any real way.
So they took out two of the most useful things that LLMs can do.
It may be circumstantial but I just checked and Netflix and Disney+ are both only rendering at 720p in Linux (Kubuntu 26.04) in Firefox and Chromium for me. Maybe official chrome is better, I don’t have it installed at the moment.
The trouble you’ll quickly run into is that with a non-iOS/Android/Windows platform your streaming sites won’t go above 720p, and your attempts to run sandboxed Android apps will pretty much all fail. Now if all you mainly do is serve local content from e.g. Jellyfin that’s not much of a problem, but as you already own an AppleTV that’s probably not your only use case.
Revoke launch licenses until NASA gets what they need. Export ban on company and tech. Nationalize launch assets if absolutely necessary. Or at least threaten these things. SpaceX needs starlink, the kind of AI revenue they’d otherwise need is never going to materialize. Force them to play ball.
So the documentary is exactly like every other thing having to do with AI?
In fairness every kind of mass media has been doing that for a century plus. The difference with social media is that it is much more effective.
They might look like they’re exploding in the US, but not at all compared to what could have been happening in the same time period had Trump allowed even the milquetoast Biden-era policies to continue (to say nothing of expanding on them). China, who has invested heavily in solar and battery R&D and manufacturing, installed more solar power than the rest of the world combined in 2025 and holds over 80% of the global market share for solar panels. They are the world leaders in the nearline battery chemistries that already make solar+battery the cheapest form of power by a longshot, and have half of the world’s installed capacity of battery storage systems. We could have had a seat at that table, but we’re now a decade behind in tech R&D and manufacturing capability. The private sector knows this, which is why they won’t touch it without strong federal support.